Karl Bode
Decade of Disillusion

How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again
Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.
Karl Bode
12.31.19
Internet Archive

Archivists Are Saving the History of Internet Piracy
The goal is to create a catalog of more than 5 terabytes of searchable, piracy-related metadata.
Karl Bode
12.16.19
Internet

The Case for Internet Access as a Human Right
A new study says internet access shouldn’t be an exploitable luxury good, but a basic, protected human right provided for free to those who can’t afford it.
Karl Bode
11.14.19
Internet

Don't Freak Out About YouTube's Updated Terms of Service. They Were Always Bad.
Experts say the changes won’t impact most users, but they do highlight how your rights are steadily being eroded by fine print.
Karl Bode
11.13.19
Hacking

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant Can Be Hacked Remotely With Lasers
The attack highlights a vulnerability in "smart" assistant microphones that can be targeted from up to 350 feet away using lasers.
Karl Bode
11.6.19
phones

Phones Don't Give You Horns, Says Journal That Claimed Phones Give You Horns
They weren’t horns. And they weren’t caused by cell phones. Other than that, good job, everybody.
Karl Bode
9.26.19
Another Day Another Hack

This Counterfeit iPhone Is Riddled With Backdoors and Malware
Fake devices look real but are rife with unpatched operated systems, outdated kernels, and a universe of dodgy backdoors and malware, researchers have found.
Karl Bode
8.15.19
Hacking

Google Hackers Found 10 Ways to Hack an iPhone Without Touching It
Many of the vulnerabilities relied on using iMessage to own the rest of the phone, Google's Project Zero said.
Karl Bode
8.13.19
Hacking

Vulnerability Exposed Microsoft Azure Users to Cyberattack
New report says flaw with common remote desktop access protocol left millions of users and researchers open to attack.
Karl Bode
8.8.19
Internet

This Is Probably Why Your AirPods Keep Losing Connection
Sometimes older, dumber technology is the smarter option.
Karl Bode
7.31.19

This Guy Mined Bitcoin With a Computer That Helped NASA Land on the Moon
An Apollo Guidance Computer would need a billion times the age of the universe to mine a single block.
Karl Bode
7.9.19
tech-internet

The Google Outage Highlights the Perils of a Centralised Internet
Google so far has no answers as to why its massive cloud outage downed everything from Snapchat to 'Rocket League' servers.
Karl Bode
6.4.19
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