Samantha Cole

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samantha.cole@vice.com
porn

Bang Bros Bought a Huge Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It

PornWikiLeaks was a forum devoted to revealing the names and personal information of porn performers, including several in the Girls Do Porn trial.
Samantha Cole
4 days ago
privacy

Venmo Is Still Exposing Your Connections to Everyone You Know

The EFF and Mozilla published an open letter today urging Venmo parent company PayPal to fix the app's privacy holes.
Samantha Cole
5 days ago
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How Cam Models Changed the Porn World Forever

Camming and customized content has turned our experiences with porn into uniquely personal moments.
Samantha Cole
8.27.19
deepfakes

A Site Faking Jordan Peterson's Voice Shuts Down After Peterson Decries Deepfakes

The maker of NotJordanPeterson.com, a Jordan Peterson Voice simulator that used AI to match his voice to any text inputs, took the website down, after the real Peterson freaked out.
Samantha Cole
8.26.19
AI

Researchers Created AI That Hides Your Emotions From Other AI

As smart speaker makers such as Amazon improve emotion-detecting AI, researchers are coming up with ways to protect our privacy.
Samantha Cole
8.23.19
YouTube

YouTube Removed Videos of Robots Fighting, Calling it Animal Abuse

Several Battlebots videos were taken down in the last few days, with YouTube citing animal cruelty policies.
Samantha Cole
8.20.19
Internet

The Creators of the World's Longest-Running Webcam Are Pulling the Plug

FogCam, an early-internet project of two San Francisco State University alumni, has reached its end after 25 years.
Samantha Cole
8.19.19
deepfakes

This Program Makes It Even Easier to Make Deepfakes

Unlike previous deepfake methods, FSGAN can generate face swaps in real time, with zero training.
Samantha Cole
8.19.19
def con

We Asked Def Con Attendees Why People Are Still Getting Hacked

The cybersecurity industry is worth billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people attend Black Hat and Def Con every year. So, are we getting any safer?
Samantha Cole
Joseph Cox
Ben Makuch
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
8.16.19
Hacking

This Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers​

Designer Kate Rose presented her "adversarial fashion" line of clothing, which introduces garbage data into license plate reader systems, at DEF CON 27.
Samantha Cole
8.15.19
Internet

Pornhub Is Still Working With Company Sued for Manipulating Women Into Porn

Pornhub is still hosting and profiting from Girls Do Porn, a company that's being sued by 22 women.
Samantha Cole
8.12.19
hentai

‘Dear Fucking God:’ The ‘Alexandria Library’ of Hentai Has Suddenly Vanished

Sad Panda, a huge hentai-hosting website, is gone, and another 50 terabytes of hentai is also in danger of deletion.
Samantha Cole
7.26.19
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