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November 21

Arduino Uno | Best Holiday Gifts of 2014

Here’s a holiday review of the Arduino Uno, and a basic guide to buying and using one. Building things is satisfying. It just feels great to turn on a device you’ve designed and assembled yourself, and watch it work. If you’re looking to give someone that type of satisfaction as a holiday gift this year, you might want to consider getting your special someone an Arduino...

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November 17

Saving Lives and Spreading Knowledge with Pi

It’s $30, the size of a credit card, and it’s bringing educational resources to remote villages around the world. Today I’d like to tell you the story of the Rachel-Pi. The Rachel Pi is an educational server based off of the $30 Raspberry Pi computer. It runs on an SD card, and carries an open-source collection of more than 3,000 books, 6,000 wikipedia articles,...

hacking / privacy / security

September 29

Man Creates Button To Summon The NSA To Your House

Doing a school project on the NSA? Want to meet real FBI agents, and see them in action? Well, programmer Kane Ford has you covered. Kane created a special button. On click, it runs a javascript program that searches on Google for three random terms from the NSA’s watch list – almost guaranteeing you a visit from your favorite friendly spy agency, backed by...

hacking / privacy / security / Video

August 31

This Hacker Showed That Everything In My Life Is Vulnerable In Just 18 Minutes

I thought I was safe. I have secure passwords, and I’m careful with my information, but that’s not enough. In a recent TEDx talk, hacker Pablos Holman proved that seven very common things that should be secure, are in fact very vulnerable. *These guys hacked Snapchat, and even the CEO was blown away by what they did So What’s Vulnerable? 1. Car Keys Don’t...

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July 31

HACKERS: What’s your most Amazing Hackathon hack?

Hackers create some amazing things. A few friends of mine hacked Snapchat, and did some funny things in the process (our interview with them is attached). They also ended up chatting up the CEO of Snapchat. Another hacker I know created an app that turns photos of website sketches into full Drupal websites, laid out as-sketched. What I want to know is… What have...