ISSUE 0.5

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Cybercrime. Insecurity. The Open Web.

This one's all about cybercrime, the internet, how insecure it is, why, and what can be done about it. (Right now, very little. Be careful. It's only going to get worse before it gets better.)

But for now... the news!

Glitchet News

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Cybercrime

it's the onion

World Begins Another Day At Mercy Of 19-Year-Old Estonian Hacker

". . . Sources said Pevkur could at any moment decide to use his knowledge of rootkits and data decryption to wirelessly break into the cell phones of high-ranking government officials, business executives, international celebrities, or whomever he chooses, really."

13 ways hackers will destroy your life

All the ways hackers will try to kill you in the future

The coming internet of things means that every thing is connected to the internet, and every thing can now be hacked.

vigilante detective work

Behind Dark Justice's crusade to bring down pedophiles

The coming internet of things means that every thing is connected to the internet, and every thing can now be hacked.

drugs, money, and implication

The Mob's IT Department

How two technology consultants helped drug traffickers hack the Port of Antwerp.

goodbye Darkode

Dozens Nabbed in Takedown of Cybercrime Forum Darkode

Den for hacking tools, zero-days, malware, and financial information is taken down along with tons of its key players.

Insecurity

interesting white paper

password cracking.pdf

If you're not familiar with the topic of password cracking, this is a detailed look at the variety of ways to do it while keeping the technical discussion easy to understand.

print-a-doc

Mobile Robots and RFID Tags Internet-of-Things-ify the Outdoors

This is seriously useful (and cool) tech. In a nutshell: measure earth quality by cropdusting RFID sensors with drones to figure out where to grow crops to best preserve water. Also, a potentially frightening delivery method for cropdusting other kinds of tiny tech.

who built this thing?

CIA Cybersecurity Guru Dan Geer Doesn't Use a Cell Phone

"If [Dan Geer] doesn't understand how something works in detail, he says, he won't use it." This is a hell of a way to live. Soon, most people will barely understand anything they use. (Actually, I think we're already there.)

a flaw in the design

The Net of Insecurity Part 1: A Flaw In the Design

Fantastic, detailed look at the beginning of the net's infrastructure - and how early, hasty decisions that were meant to be patched later, never were. The world we live in now is a result of those early quasi-decisions.

The Open Web

the stream owns our consciousness

The Web We Have to Save

A rallying cry to the way content propagates through the net now. Not through the web, through hyperlinks, but through social media streams that refuse to share, demand your attention, and lock you into themselves.

This is a difficult problem to solve, the stream. An endless inundation of content. Some quality, some not. Ultimately driven down a funnel, a bubbled existence of information made of images, still and moving. How can we avoid turning the internet into television?

stream grotesque

I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me

The short and skinny? The algorithm gives you what you "want". It's terrible.

the awesome web

Norse Attack Map

Visualization of real-time cyber attacks routed through Norse's honeypot network. Which country do you think makes the most attacks? (Hint: it's China.)

thoughtful conversations

Divorce Your Metadata: A conversation

An interesting conversation on the dynamics of a surveillance world where we have so much that can be surveiled.

it's there for good

Cleaning Up Your ‘Personal Brand' Isn't as Easy as You Think

Anyone who's been online long enough knows that the data never disappears. Never. But, it can be covered up.