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New Tool Lets You Search Tons of Old CDs and Floppy Disks for Lost Media
DiscMaster lets you search and view millions of old files from the early days of the internet.
FTP Is Almost 50 Years Old—and It’s Ready to Retire
The beating heart of the early internet may have been FTP, or file transfer protocol. But after 50 years of mainstream use, its demise may be imminent.
Fuck the Police: Why Does Cop Porn Still Exist?
In the middle of Black Lives Matter protests, people were searching for more police-themed porn than usual.
Hear What Inspires the Creatives of Places + Faces, and FTP This Weekend on Noisey Radio
Photography collective Places + Faces and clothing brand FTP stop by to explain why all art matters.
A Russian Hacker Took Over a BBC Server at Christmas
It's been a bad year for news sites faced with hack attacks.
Surveillance Culture Is Not a Two-Way Street
As the surveillance activity of the state has ramped up over the past several decades, the surveillance of the state by ordinary citizens has become increasingly punished. Whistleblowers get locked up and people who simply film police beatings are...
Getting Busted in New York
In most places in the world, weed is still an illegal substance. But despite that illegality, some law enforcers tolerate it’s use. An understanding exists between weed smokers and many police: as long as you’re discreet about it, you won’t get hauled...
Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven...
Testilying: Cops Are Liars Who Get Away with Perjury
Misrepresentation, deception, and outright lying appear to be part of a police officer’s job description, so much so that the term “testilying,” now common vernacular for police falsifications, was actually coined by NYPD officers as something of an...
Chipping Away at Stop-and-Frisk
Fifty-one-year-old Charles Bradley finished his shift as a security guard and took the subway to visit his estranged fiancée at his former house in the Bronx. It might have been a night of reconciliation. But instead, it was a night spent interrogated...