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The debut of “else”: Surveillance Everywhere and the Technological Wild West

John Battelle's Searchblog

In keeping with boolean condition logic of the if/then working title for the book, we’ll be tagging these posts as “else.” We’ll also plan on talking through some of the things we’re reading and working on in this space. Links aren’t necessarily endorsements, but they do point to ideas that got us thinking this week.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking With Light And Sound

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So, for example, you can use sound waves to hack your FITBIT and reach your step goal through acoustic interference. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive. Nobody would have thought that if you just happen to shake a phone a certain way, you can cause it to have deliberately false accelerometer values.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking With Light And Sound

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So, for example, you can use sound waves to hack your FITBIT and reach your step goal through acoustic interference. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive. Nobody would have thought that if you just happen to shake a phone a certain way, you can cause it to have deliberately false accelerometer values.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking With Light And Sound

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So, for example, you can use sound waves to hack your FITBIT and reach your step goal through acoustic interference. Or using sound to fake FitBit steps, or disable your hard drive. Nobody would have thought that if you just happen to shake a phone a certain way, you can cause it to have deliberately false accelerometer values.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

You walk so many steps and Fitbit rewards you with a badge or compares your workout with someone else. So getting cybersecurity education materials often comes with a price tag. But what if you want or need a more formal introduction to the basics of say, digital forensics. There's been a lot of emphasis lately on gamification.