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| Dec 5, 2018 | Pindrop raises $90M to bring its voice-fraud prevention to IoT devices and Europe | When it comes to how humans communicate with each other or with machines, voice is a major interface, with growth in the latter fuelled by the rise of artificial intelligence, faster computing technology and an explosion of new devices — so... |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Steal This Show S03E05: ‘Hacking The System’ | If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron and getting involved with the show. Check out Steal This Show’s Patreon campaign: support us and get all kinds of fantastic benefits!
In this episode, we meet two Dangerous Internet Hack... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | 2600 Explains Eloquently How Excessive Copyright Harms Everyone | Last week, we wrote about how the famous hacker magazine 2600 received a copyright threat letter concerning the cover of its Spring 2012 issue (which, we noted, meant that the three-year statute of limitations had passed for a copyright cla... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Getty Images Tries To Copyright Troll 2600 Magazine Over Content It Has No Copyright Over | So, we were just discussing Getty Images’ latest foray into ridiculous copyright trolling (something the company has a long history with), by demanding money for a meme image used on a blog. Today, we have another example of Getty Images co... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | Don't Just Rely on Tor: Security Advice from an Alleged Dark Web Veteran | Being a cybercriminal is hard. Once you reach a level of notoriety, any number of well-funded agencies may be hot on your tail. Some people might think that the power of encryption and anonymity technology like Tor could be enough to hold t... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | Google Autocomplete No Longer Excludes “Bisexual” | There are thousands of words that Google has “blacklisted,” meaning they won’t trigger any suggestions within Google’s autocomplete feature. If you don’t quite understand what I’m talking about, head on over to Google and type in “football.... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Google Drops 'Bisexual' From Its Taboo Words List | While I just wrote about the difficulty Google has put itself in with its selective enforcement of banning autocomplete terms, the search company also recently removed one such term from its oft-referred to “dirty words” list, which de-prio... |
| Jun 18, 2011 | 4 The Lulz | Editor’s note: Aaron Crayford is the CEO of Mighty whose main product is a smart real-time communication framework. While in high school was prosecuted by the US government for what the DoD called “The most organized systematic attack the P... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | Dear Big Companies: Getting Hacked is Good For You | The term "hack" and "hacker" have been dirty words for as long as anyone can remember. Whether it's Julian Assange or charming 80's movies about disenfranchised teenagers with a penchant for anarchy, these terms never fa... |
| Nov 24, 2010 | Report: ATM Skimmer Attacks On The Rise | There’s nothing particularly “new” about the use of ATM skimmers, but a recent report from the European ATM Security Team (EAST) has reminded us all of the dangers. What evildoers do is construct a skimmer out of common materials, including... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | 2600 Magazine, The Hacker Quarterly, Now On Amazon Kindle | 2600, the quarterly magazine that deals with hacker culture and issues affecting it, is now available on the Amazon Kindle store. It’s $3.95 a pop (I think I pay $6-something at the newsstand), meaning a full year is just under $12. That’s ... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Google Instant comes to Canada, but blacklist words not so instant | Article content
Google Instant launches in Canada today but already the service has raised controversy over allegations of censorship.
Google Instant is an enhancement to Google’s search engine that starts displaying results from your searc... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | Reporters Without Borders 'Affirms Support' For Wikileaks; What Could Be Lurking Inside Insurance.AES256? | It was about a week ago that Wikileaks came under fire from several human rights organizations for not taking the proper precautions to protect various Afghan informants. It should be noted that Reporters Without Borders, which had criticiz... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Web Illiteracy: How Much Is Your Fault? | When hundreds of clueless commenters decided mid-February that ReadWriteWeb was the place to log in to Facebook, alerts went off in my personal network like alarms at a fire station. For the past few years I’ve been doing research on misund... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Flying high on Club Mate | I’ve been led to believe that Club Mate (pronounced: ma-tay) is the drink in the international hacker community. Being a fan of the international hacker community—and by “hacker” I don’t mean stupid idiots who DDOS Web sites for lulz, but r... |
| Feb 8, 2010 | China shuts down pretty darn big hacking Web site | Much has been written about China and “hackers” in recent weeks, probably because it contains two items that sound mysterious and scary: China and its rise, which unsettles people who believe the U.S. should run the planet, full stop, and “... |
| Oct 2, 2008 | Kevin Mitnick explains his travel ordeal on Off the Hook radio show | Future NFL Hall of Famer Kevin Mitnick was on WBAI’s Off the Hook radio show last night, and he explained his travel horror when going from Bogotá to Atlanta. An MP3 version of the show was just posted to 2600’s Web site, which you can find... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | Time for Tech Companies to Stop Hiding from Security Problems | MythBusters, the television story that experimentally examines urban myths, old wives' tales, and other popular wisdom, apparently backed down from examining RFID security when pressed by legal representatives from Texas Instruments and lea... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Listen to last night's Off The Hook radio show | On last night’s Off The Hook, 2600 Magazine’s weekly radio show, tech journalist Steven Levy, whose wife apparently threw out a MacBook Air a few months ago, gave a pretty great interview touching on all sorts of subjects. Hackers, Google, ... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | Learn just how insecure locks are at 2600's Last HOPE this summer | As we approach 2600’s Last HOPE, more and more information is being released as to what to expect. The latest: the locks you use to protect your property are terribly insecure.
Attendees at The Last HOPE conference in July will learn firsth... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | 2600 mag declares the payphone dead | 2600, the Hacker Quarterly, has declared this year, 2008, to be the payphone’s last year. The payphone is dead, long live the payphone.
The cover of the publication’s Spring issue has what looks to be a shrine dedicated to the memory of pay... |
| Jan 14, 2008 | Latest 2600 magazine asks what happened to the warez scene | [photopress:2600winter08.jpg,full,right]
We wrote a brief primer on piracy a few months ago, discussing the ins and outs of several different methods of getting your free, daily fix of music, movies and software. This quarter’s issue of 260... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Boucher DMCA Exemption Bill Would Legalize Commercial-Skipping | A copy of the early draft language of the revised H.R. 1201, sponsored by Rep. Rick Boucher (D - VA) and introduced on the floor of the US House of Representatives yesterday, shows the revised legislation would add six new exemptions to US ... |
| Dec 2, 2002 | Developing Terror Beepers | LittleW0lf writes “Posted on 2600 News, but relevant here too, apparently a non-profit organization feels that it would be better to spend our tax payer money coming up with all sorts of ways for the government to warn us about terrorist at... |
| Aug 23, 2000 | The 2600 Response | Okay, this is already a few days old and I should have posted it earlier, but I just came across it. I’m sure other sites have already covered it, but I still thought it was worth posting. It’s 2600’s own reaction to the DeCSS trial. It mak... |