The new and cheap anonymizing device, Proxyham, has been axed and its DEFCON talk cancelled. Was the firm hit with a gag order, or was it just hype to begin with?
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!)
Did Firefox listen to Facebook and just kill Flash? (No, but there’s another patch!) 
US government takes aim at 3D printed guns
Should the blueprints for guns really be considered “free speech?” Or is that a convenient bending of reality? 
Facebook’s new CSO comes out swinging: “Death to Flash!” [POLL]
Facebook still uses Flash if you have it, even though it doesn’t need to. But if Facebook’s new CSO has his way, that could end. Suddenly!
Facebook locked out Jemmaroid von Laalaa, so she made it her real name
One woman’s tale of desperately fighting to get back into her account after the real-name policy police shut her out.
United Airlines pays hacker one million air miles in bug bounty reward
It didn’t take Jordan Wiens very long to find a vulnerability in United Airlines’ network, but the payoff was huge – one million free air miles for about six hours of work.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence
The creator of the Linux kernel has joined the all-star cast of tech-somebodies with something to say about Artificial Intelligence but he’s distinctly off message.
WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger could by banned by UK’s newly proposed bill
Newly proposed UK legislation will demand that messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat remove encryption from their apps altogether or see them banned. 
Lad who attacked Spamhaus in DDoS attack avoids prison, given a second chance
The 16-year-old arrested in 2013 with £72,000 in the bank and the smoke from a DDoS attack against Spamhaus in the air, has been sentenced. 
Fed up with losing email to your spam folder? Gmail’s artificial intelligence wants to help
Google is arming bulk email senders with spam smarts so that you get more of the emails you want and spend less time dumpster-diving for missing email.