Topic: Appelbaum - on June 18, 2016 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
Jacob Appelbaum Banned From Prominent Hacker Conference Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Jacob Appelbaum has been banned from Chaos Computer Club events following numerous allegations that he sexually assaulted women and acted inappropriately at hacker events. Appelbaum regularly spoke at CCC events like Chaos Communication Congress and Chaos Communication Camp.
The Forest for the Trees
It feels rather sardonic to say this now, openly, after two years spent alternating between trying to inhibit my rage and convince myself that I hadn’t been hurt, followed by seeking out other victims, in order to develop the collective capacity to defend ourselves and to have the simple ability to speak out in a manner which would be heard and not discarded.
But he does good work
Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest newspaper. They are working on stories about Jacob Appelbaum. Specifically, his history in tech and hacking as it relates to his harassment and abuse of others, and the astonishingly widening pool of victims and witnesses coming forward in the past ten days.
The Weaponising Of Social Part 2: Stomping On IOError’s Grave
I once tried to tell Jacob Appelbaum a funny joke. He did not think it was funny. In fact, he was visibly mortified and uncomfortable. My joke was a retelling of something that had happened to me when I was still on the opposite side of the planet. I have a really dark, sardonic, acerbic Kiwi sense of humour, that has been sharpened by surviving everything that has been thrown at me to date.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on June 14, 2016 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
I Swallowed a 64GB microSD Card
A couple of weeks ago, my team and I pulled together a weekend poolside shoot with models, perfect weather, and a drone. I operated the drone and got some beautiful footage. Magnificent footage. Award-winning footage. After the shoot, while putting the drone away and packing up all the gear, it occurred to me that there’s usually the hassle of having to unpack it later just to get the memory card. So I removed the microSD while I still sort of had my hands full and put it between my lips (ostensibly for 10 seconds before I could put it in my wallet).
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 14, 2016 at 5:49:00 PM CEST
World’s Tallest Wooden Building Will Be Built In Vienna
Vienna will soon be home to the world’s tallest wooden building. Designed by Rüdiger Lainer and Partner, the so-called HoHO project will be built in theSeestadt Aspern area, one of Europe’s largest urban development sites. It will stand 276 feet tall and house a hotel, restaurant, and wellness center together with apartments and offices. It will cost about $65 million to construct.
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Topic: EU - on June 14, 2016 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
This is how the EU's supreme court is stripping EU citizens of copyright protections
An upcoming EU court decision could strip half a billion EU citizens of their copyright protection, and all because of an accidental translation error. In practice, it means that a link to your stolen family photos (which would never happen because the cloud is so secure, right?) would be free to circulate and there’s nothing an EU citizen could do to have the link taken down. The story has a surreal quality, as international experts can't understand how the EU's highest court is talking itself out of the international copyright system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 14, 2016 at 5:34:00 PM CEST
The world’s oldest computer is still revealing its secrets
Item 15087 wasn't much to look at, particularly compared to other wonders uncovered from the shipwreck at Antikythera, Greece, in 1901. The underwater excavation revealed gorgeous bronze sculptures, ropes of decadent jewelry and a treasure trove of antique coins. Amid all that splendor, who could have guessed that a shoebox-size mangled bronze machine, its inscriptions barely legible, its gears calcified and corroded, would be the discovery that could captivate scientists for more than a century?
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Topic: WEB - on June 14, 2016 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 14, 2016 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Olympic threats designed to trick you
Are you planning to visit Brazil during the Olympic Games? Or watch it online? In this blog post we discuss the threats to visitors aiming to travel to Brazil to watch the games and to those planning to watch it online. In the first part we’ll talk about phishing attacks, including one against the organizers of the Games; in the second we highlight WiFi security and the results of the wardriving we did on the streets of Rio, visiting the same places as tourists and the athletes. In the third and final part we touch upon physical security that involves the usage of USB charging spots at airports, the problem of credit card cloning and ATM skimmers that will directly affect visitors to this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio.
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Topic: IoT - on June 14, 2016 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Raspberry Pi maker Premier Farnell to be sold to Datwyler Technical Components in £792m deal
Shares in Premier Farnell, the company behind the Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized single-board computer, have surged by 50 per cent after the group revealed it has agreed a takeover deal with a subsidiary of Swiss manufacturer Datwyler. Bidco has offered 165p per share in cash, which values Premier Farnell at around £615m, and represents a premium of around 51 per cent to the company's closing price of 109.3p yesterday. The deal has an enterprise value of around £792m.
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Topic: Appelbaum - on June 14, 2016 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
The Weaponising Of Social Part 1: The Crucifixion of IOError
Thanks to a small group of supposed anonymity-protecting privacy activists thousands of people now know the name of Jacob Appelbaum’s fiancée`. Even those that didn’t want to. We found it out by reading an extremely controversial website launched a week ago, that had a few sparse accounts of some nasty sounding happenings allegedly involving Jacob, with promises of more to come.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 14, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Police informant hacks into online communications of hundreds of individuals
The correspondence between the informant and two detectives indicates engagement in unlawful invasion into private communications of police suspects. Initially, the police found no irregularities, but later reported one of the detectives to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Topic: logisch - on June 14, 2016 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
What Happens If GPS Fails?
Despite massive reliance on the system’s clocks, there’s still no longterm backup. In only took thirteen millionths of a second to cause a whole lot of problems. Last January, as the U.S. Air Force was taking one satellite in the country’s constellation of GPS satellites offline, an incorrect time was accidentally uploaded to several others, making them out of sync by less time than it takes for the sound of a gunshot to leave the chamber.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on June 14, 2016 at 12:39:00 AM CEST
Salzburger Museum widmet sich der Kulturgeschichte des Klos
Töpfchen, Abort, Latrine, Toilette, Klosett, WC, Lokus oder Häusl - für das „stille Örtchen“ gibt es viele Begriffe. Eine Sonderausstellung der Walser Bachschmiede in Salzburg widmet sich derzeit der Kulturgeschichte des Klos.
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