A few months ago Snapchat introduced a Stories feature to let your Snaps or posts live on for 24 hours. Today the Little Snapper wants your posts to live forever by printing out your incoming messages. The contraption breaches the Snapchat API to display these posts and uses Berg’s Little Printer, a mini thermal printing… Continue reading The Little Snapper Printer Is the Best Snapchat Hack Yet
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Internet security and privacy news.
The Return of ’24’ and Jack Bauer Will Air May 5 on FOX
You may have to wait a little longer than 24 hours, but your favorite show starring agent Jack Bauer and the Counter Terrorist Unit crew will be back airing on Fox in May. The new 24: Live Another Day is set to take place in London four years after the critically acclaimed series ended after… Continue reading The Return of ’24’ and Jack Bauer Will Air May 5 on FOX
Snapchat Apologizes for Data Breach, Updates App to Fix Find Friends Feature
The popular app for sharing short-lived messages Snapchat has updated its mobile apps today to patch a recent hole exposed in its API that allowed hackers to leak 4.6 million usernames and partial phone numbers. The vulnerability in Snapchat’s Find Friends feature has been fixed and Snapchat now allows Snappers to opt-out of linking their… Continue reading Snapchat Apologizes for Data Breach, Updates App to Fix Find Friends Feature
NSA Reportedly Intercepting Laptops Purchased Online to Implant Spyware
A new report by German news outlet Der Spiegel claims that the intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit, TAO, has been conducting intrusive wiretaps that would make your typical sci-fi movie seem realistic. According to the report, the NSA has been intercepting shipping deliveries for laptops and other computer accessories purchased online in order to secretly… Continue reading NSA Reportedly Intercepting Laptops Purchased Online to Implant Spyware
Five Big Tech Innovations that IBM Predicts Will Change Your Life in the Next Few Years
What does the future of innovation hold? According to IBM’s 8th annual “5 in 5” predictions about the direction of technology, we can all expect to see some drastic changes in our classrooms, online browsing, how we shop and the cities we live in. Not only does IBM make these bold predictions, its goal is… Continue reading Five Big Tech Innovations that IBM Predicts Will Change Your Life in the Next Few Years
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and More Join Forces to Reform Government Surveillance
This is the age of the NSA’s PRISM scandal, government leaders spying on other government leaders and do-before-ask privacy policies. If no one takes a stand to put in place more transparent privacy laws and regulate them, too, every part of our lives might soon be available for governments and corporations to see (if it’s… Continue reading Facebook, Google, Microsoft and More Join Forces to Reform Government Surveillance
The Alphabet of the Technical Obsolete [COMIC]
When’s the last time you’ve actually physically walked into a bookstore? Or seen an encyclopedia or dictionary for that matter? The Internet has changed everything, from how we consume our news, find directions and even communicate, now all online. Long gone are the nostalgic items of the pre-existing Internet era like quality, penmanship and good… Continue reading The Alphabet of the Technical Obsolete [COMIC]
Thieves Steal Ingredients for a Radioactive Dirty Bomb in Mexico
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency has some very bad news today announcing that thieves in Mexico have stolen a truck carrying dangerous radioactive materials from a hospital in Tijuana. The UN referred to the stolen materials as “extremely dangerous.” The substance in question, cobalt-60, is often used in hospitals for radiotherapy and sterilizing instruments… Continue reading Thieves Steal Ingredients for a Radioactive Dirty Bomb in Mexico
