Pluralistic: 21 Oct 2021

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Imperfections in your Bluetooth beacons allow for unstoppable tracking: Fingerprinting BLE with minor material variations in radio hardware.
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Pluralistic: 25 Aug 2021

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Big Box stores' other shoe drops: Lowe's is a parasite that is killing its host.
Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans": When a secretive autocrat has no more secrets.
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Pluralistic: 06 Aug 2021

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Scammers sell griefers social media banning services: And charge their victims 100x more to get un-banned.
Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke: Especially compared with the independent Ad Obervatory, which the company wants to destroy.
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Pluralistic: 29 Jul 2021

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Bankruptcy and elite impunity: The Sacklers offer billions of reasons to overthrow the system.
Stories from Black women's customer service hell: The women who answer the phone when you call Disney, Airbnb, Carnival and others.
Tracking you with accelerometer signatures: Yet another latent unique identifier with horrifying consequences.
Unauthorized cups: RFID-equipped disposable cups deny water to homeless people.
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Pluralistic: 27 Jul 2021

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What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?: Gavin Edwards' "Having Fun On Stage With Everybody."
The infosec apocalypse is nigh: Ed Snowden on the NSO's malware.
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Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2021

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Podcasting "I Quit": My essay on smoking cessation, doubt, denial, and the worst corporations on Earth.
New York to revolutionize antitrust: "Consumer Welfare" is bad for your welfare.
New York to revolutionize voting: The SAFE Act and PAVE Act ride again!
Competition tames ISPs: How living on the wrong side of the street can cost you thousands of dollars.
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Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2021

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Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
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Pluralistic: 23 Apr 2021

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Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud: Eliminalia, where "we erase your past and help you build your future."
Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle: Imagine losing your family home for a GOP media op.
John Deere's dismal infosec: Paternalistic security works well, fails badly.
This day in history: 2020
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2021

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SMS security is flaming garbage: Netnumber is a perfect microcosm of telephonic uselessness.
The People's Parity Project: An antidote to corporate law.
Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony.
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Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2021

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Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
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