Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Killer drones and hackable weapons and easy targets for spies, oh my...
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District Attorneys are going to try mandating encryption backdoors again and refuse to understand why it can't be done without cratering the modern economy.
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As we're living our lives online, we have to adjust to the idea that what we do in private might become public and act accordingly.
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Foreign policy wonks want tech companies to battle censorship with the devices they sell to foreign countries. Unfortunately, they can't defeat math, even for a noble cause.
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If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.
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Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.
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Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.
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Bureaucrats keep thinking about how to tame the internet, but the internet's very nature makes it trivial to resist their efforts.
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It's not just the Home Alone vibe of Skyfall that should irk viewers...
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If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.