Hacker News
- The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2022/03/11/the-tech-industry-controls-cs-conference-funding-what-are-the-dangers/ 67 comments
- When the business model is the privacy violation https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/12/when-the-business-model-is-the-privacy-violation/ 92 comments
- No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-personal-data-by-session-replay-scripts/ 51 comments
- NYC proposes rule to collect GPS data on car service passengers https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/01/04/nyc-to-collect-gps-data-on-car-service-passengers-good-intentions-gone-awry-or-something-else/ 41 comments
- How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ 257 comments
- Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/ 19 comments
- School's Laptop Spying Software Exploitable from Anywhere http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/schools-laptop-spying-software-exploitable-anywhere 5 comments
Lobsters
- Bitcoin isn’t so broken after all https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/bitcoin-isnt-so-broken-after-all/ 3 comments merkle-trees
- Every move you make, I’ll be watching you: Privacy implications of the Apple U1 chip and ultra-wideband https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/12/21/every-move-you-make-ill-be-watching-you-privacy-implications-of-the-apple-u1-chip-and-ultra-wideband/ 112 comments privacy
- Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/06/29/against-privacy-defeatism-why-browsers-can-still-stop-fingerprinting/ 13 comments technology
- No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/18/no-boundaries-for-facebook-data-third-party-trackers-abuse-facebook-login/ 14 comments netsec
- Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/02/a-privacy-preserving-approach-to-dns/ 17 comments crypto
- Are voting-machine modems truly divorced from the Internet? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/22/are-voting-machine-modems-truly-divorced-from-the-internet/ 6 comments technology
- Web trackers exploit browser login managers https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-user-identities-web-trackers-exploit-browser-login-managers/ 6 comments linux
- Which voting machines can be hacked through the Internet? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/09/20/which-voting-machines-can-be-hacked-through-the-internet/ 11 comments technology
- Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/vitaly/gone-in-six-characters-short-urls-considered-harmful-for-cloud-services/ 20 comments programming
- Princeton releases free bitcoin textbook, authors include profs and deputy CTO of the White House! https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/ 3 comments btc
- How is NSA breaking so much crypto? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ 3 comments technology
- Anonymous programmers can be identified by analyzing coding style https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/aylin/anonymous-programmers-can-be-identified-by-analyzing-coding-style/ 113 comments programming
- On the value of encrypting your phone (Ed Felten) https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/on-the-value-of-encrypting-your-phone/ 7 comments technology
- Security Audit of Safeplug “Tor in a Box” https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/annee/security-audit-of-safeplug-tor-in-a-box/ 15 comments netsec
- A Court Order is an Insider Attack - What led to Lavabit’s shutdown was not that the company’s technology was too resistant to insider attacks, but that it wasn’t resistant https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/a-court-order-is-an-insider-attack/ 4 comments programming
- The fall of Silk Road and Lavabit illustrate the Limits of cryptography https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/silk-road-lavabit-and-the-limits-of-crypto/ 10 comments crypto
- Courts try to decide: Can the "First sale doctrine" be waived by a EULA? https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/abridy/digital-death-copyrights-first-sale-doctrine 8 comments technology
- A computer science professor explains how he hacked Washington D.C.'s trial internet voting system http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-internet-voting-pilot 26 comments technology
- The Gizmodo Warrant: Searching Journalists in the Terabyte Age: "The police now possess, intermingled with the evidence of the alleged crime they are investigating, hundreds of thousands of documents belonging to a journalist/blogger that are utterly irrelevant to their investigation." http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/gizmodo-warrant-searching-journalists-terabyte-age 3 comments technology
- Princeton Prof analyzes Bittorrent and concludes that 99% of files shared on Bittorrent are pirated. News at 11. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/census-files-available-bittorrent 13 comments technology
- BitTorrent census: about 99% of files copyright infringing http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/census-files-available-bittorrent 4 comments reddit.com
- Use a Firewall, Go to Jail http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/use-firewall-go-jail 3 comments technology
- Fingerprinting Blank Paper Using Commodity Scanners http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/fingerprinting-blank-paper-using-commodity-scanners 7 comments programming
- NJ Election Discrepancies Worse Than Previously Thought, Contradict Sequoia’s Explanation http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1274 2 comments reddit.com
- Sequoia (voting machine manufacturers) threated Princeton prof should he dare to publish any information regarding the "behavior" of their machines http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1265 49 comments politics
- Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1215 3 comments reddit.com
- E-Voting Ballots Not Secret; Vendors Don't See Problem http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1189 2 comments programming
- Apple to use DRM to tie iPhones and iPods to the chargers they come with http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1180 8 comments reddit.com
- African fruit extract tricks your taste buds and makes sour things seem sweet: you could eat an entire lemon, raw, and it would taste like sweet lemonade. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=01151 35 comments reddit.com
- Why the 09ers Are So Upset: "God created the integers; all else is the work of man" http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1154 15 comments reddit.com
- Re-Designing the Internet Considered Harmful http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1149?dupe=with_honor 7 comments programming
- This has to be a parody, right? Right? (sadly, it isn't) http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1146 15 comments reddit.com
- Caught on video: Ohio election workers contaminate voting machines by putting their memory cards in personal, potentially malware-laden laptops http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=01083 5 comments reddit.com