This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019.
On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY. On July 20, I’m appearing at Chicago’s Exile in Bookville.
#20yrsago FastCompany’s terrible linking policy https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/25/fastcompanys-terrible-linking-policy/
#15yrsago Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, sequel to CHANGELING, a modern folktale of New York https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/25/magic-mirror-of-the-mermaid-queen-sequel-to-changeling-a-modern-folktale-of-new-york/
#15yrsago Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets https://web.archive.org/web/20090628071458/https://www.itworld.com/security/69758/reporters-find-northrop-grumman-data-ghana-market
#10yrsago Once there was a show called “The Hat Squad” and it was very, very stupid https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/25/once-there-was-a-show-called-the-hat-squad-and-it-was-very-very-stupid/
#10yrsago UK secretary of state: “There is no surveillance state” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28006739
#10yrsago Cops bust cybercrook who sent heroin to Brian Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/
#10yrsago SF city attorney demands shutdown of parking-space-auctioning app https://web.archive.org/web/20140625033523/http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/06/23/sf-cracks-down-on-street-parking-cash-apps/
#5yrsago An 14-year-old’s Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-silex-malware-is-bricking-iot-devices-has-scary-plans/
#5yrsago How Metabrainz stood up to a predatory copyright lawsuit and won https://blog.metabrainz.org/2019/06/25/we-were-sued-by-a-copyright-troll-and-we-prevailed/
#5yrsago “Massive scale” intrusion into mobile carriers’ networks exposed customers’ location, call data for years https://www.cybereason.com/blog/research/operation-soft-cell-a-worldwide-campaign-against-telecommunications-providers
#5yrsago Independent evaluation of “aggression detection” microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless https://features.propublica.org/aggression-detector/the-unproven-invasive-surveillance-technology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/#163614
#5yrsago Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans https://onezero.medium.com/a-group-of-microsoft-employees-is-fighting-the-companys-political-action-committee-7dae732290e3
#5yrsago Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/25/cult-of-the-dead-cow-the-untold-story-of-the-hacktivist-group-that-presaged-everything-great-and-terrible-about-the-internet/
