Man calmly sips drink as brawl erupts around him
A man in Russia watches unfazed as a bunch of troublemakers stream into the cafe and reduce it to chaos, sending other customers fleeing.
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Fiction: Someone to Watch Over Me
Editor's note: I'm delighted to bring you Someone to Watch Over Me, a beautiful, chilling science fiction story by Angus McIntyre, which appears in the just-published Black Candies - Surveillance: A...
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Iowa principals asked to wear bodycams
They're just cheap clip-ons that write to SSDs and have no tamper-evident measures. (moreā¦)
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Things to add to your building lobby's CCTV warning
Someone in JWZ's building put up a "THIS BUILDING IS MONITORED BY CLOSED-CIRCUIT CAMERAS" sign in the lobby where only the residents and their guests go, so he's been updating it with messages like...
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Griefer hacks baby monitor, terrifies toddler with spooky voices
Remember how, back in September 2015, researchers revealed that virtually every "smart" baby-monitor they tested was riddled with security vulnerabilities that let strangers seize control over it,...
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A search-engine for insecure cameras, from baby-monitors to grow-ops
Hackers have been compromising wireless baby-monitors since 2013, but the more popular they've become, the more vulnerable they've become, and the attacks just keep getting more terrible. (moreā¦)
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Man exonerated after video shows unprovoked police beating, cops insist all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_hywFWkjUo Three officers from the Caldwell County, Texas Sheriff's Department -- Sgt. Dustin Yost, Deputy Michael Taylor and Deputy Houseston -- beat the shit out of...
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White SC cops pull black passenger out of car, take turns publicly...
White cops from Aiken, SC improperly stopped a car driven by a black woman (they claimed the stop was motivated by temporary tags, but driving with current temporary tags is not grounds for a stop),...
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How standardizing DRM will make us all less secure
After decades of fighting for open Web standards that let anyone implement software to receive and render online data, the World Wide Web Consortium changed course and created EME, a DRM system that...
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Transport for London blames Tube delays on "wrong type of sun"
The agency says that the angle of the sunlight that strikes its tracks creates glare that blinds the CCTVs that train-drivers use to ensure that the platform is clear before pulling out of the...
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Rio: your quadrennial reminder that the Olympics colonize host-states with...
Remember in 1988, when South Korea's military dictator created slave-labor camps and kidnapped thousands of homeless children to work in them? (moreā¦)
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Always-on CCTVs with no effective security harnessed into massive,...
When security firm Sucuri investigated the source of a 50,000-request/second DDoS attack on a jewelry shop, they discovered to their surprise that the attacks originated on a botnet made of hacked...
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Reflectacles get a new feature: CCTV-blinding infrared reflectors
Reflectacles, the hyper-reflective Ray Ban-style $75 glasses frames that Scott Urban is Kickstarting have a new feature: now you can get ones doped with materials that reflect the infrared light that...
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How a law prof got a judge to rule that speeding cam tickets are unenforceable
Adam MacLeod is an associate law prof at Faulkner Christian University in Montgomery, Alabama: when he received a speeding ticket generated by a traffic camera for a time when he knew he hadn't been...
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Scottish court: your neighbours owe you for the distress of pointing a CCTV...
Edinburgh's Nahid Akram installed a CCTV system that let him record his downstairs neighbours Debbie and Tony Woolley in their back garden, capturing both images and audio of their private...
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Taser ships a pistol-holster sensor that triggers record mode in all nearby...
The Signal Sidearm is a sensor designed to be fitted to a police pistol holster: when triggered, it wirelessly signals all nearby police bodycams to go into record-and-archive mode. It's made by Axon,...
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185,000+ IoT security cameras are vulnerable to a new worm
Persirai is a new strain of Internet of Things malware that infects more than 1,250 models of security camera, all manufactured by an unnamed Chinese manufacturer that has sold at least 185,000 units...
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Reminder: train slipstreams can suck baby strollers onto the tracks
Set the brake on your baby carriage, wheelchair, or wheeled luggage if you plan to take your hands off it. Don't want this to happen. Luckily, this one was empty. (moreā¦)
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Airbnb guests repeatedly discover hidden cameras in the homes they rent
As the new Wired Guide to Digital Security points out, finding hidden cameras is really, really hard, so the fact that several Airbnb guests have discovered them suggests that there are a bunch more...
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News report claims Dutch spies hacked Russian cyberwar operation and pwned...
Dutch left-leaning daily de Volkskrant has published a remarkable -- but thinly sourced -- report claiming that a Dutch spy agency called the General Intelligence and Security Service of the...
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