Collaborate Disseminate
Sci-Hub, a website dedicated to free access of scientific articles, has updated for the first time in a year. Continue reading The ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Adds 2 Million New Journal Articles
Apple has reignited a legal battle with Corelluim days after settling with the security firm over an ongoing lawsuit against the company for providing a virtual environment for security researchers that recreates its operating system. Apple on Tuesday filed an appeal of a December ruling in which a judge dismissed an argument that Corellium had infringed Apple’s copyright by offering researchers a simulated environment that emulates Apple’s iOS software. The environment allows researchers to hunt for bugs via a controllable browser that can be rebooted, instead of jailbreaking an actual iPhone. It’s the latest update in a case that could have enormous implications for the ability of private researchers and academics to probe major technologies for dangerous flaws without the risk of legal retaliation. The move follows reassurances by Apple that it would rely on security researchers to help vet its controversial new system for scanning child sexual abuse imagery. […]
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A hacker doesn’t appear to be happy with the amount of digital piracy out there. A wave of malicious software downloads from October 2020 to January 2021 blocked users from visiting websites that host pirated versions of video games, Microsoft Office and other programs, analysts at antivirus firm Sophos said Thursday. One malware strain borrowed name recognition from The Pirate Bay, a notorious portal that directs users to copyrighted material while also serving up malicious software and nefarious advertisements. The vigilante disguised their malicious code as pirated software on Discord, a popular chat service, and on file-sharing service BitTorrent, Sophos said in a blog post. But instead of getting a bootlegged version of a video game like Minecraft, targets of the campaign downloaded malicious code that prevented their machines from visiting websites for pirated software. In some cases, the attacker made the malicious code appear as if it came from […]
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Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down and maybe even banning the filmers:
In a separate part of the video, which Devermont says… Continue reading Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
I received a direct message (DM) on Twitter, bearing some worrying news.
Apparently my @gcluley Twitter account is in danger of being permanently deleted due to copyright violation.
Crikey! Continue reading Twitter closing my account for copyright violation? No, it’s a phishing attack
By Zara Khan
A criminal network of copyright and infringing hackers called the Sparks Group has been dismantled.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group
Continue reading Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group
This week featured a large kerfuffle over a hack that you probably read about here on Hackaday: [Neutrino] wedged an OLED screen and an ESP32 into a Casio calculator. REACT, an anti-counterfeiting organization, filed DMCA copyright takedowns on Casio’s behalf everywhere, including GitHub and YouTube, and every trace of [Neutrino]’s …read more
It’s not the first ISP to be held accountable for alleged piracy: Cox is looking at a $1b damage order. Continue reading Reveal the identities of alleged pirates, court tells ISP
Bluntly stated, music is in the end just applied physics. Harmony follows — depending on the genre — a more or less fixed set of rules, and there are a limited amount of variation possible within the space of music itself. So there are technically only so many melodies possible, …read more
Continue reading Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All The Melodies
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, online creators are being sincerely flattered at an alarming rate these days. We Hackaday scribes see it all the time, as straight copy-pastes of our articles turn up on other websites under different bylines. It’s annoying, but given prevailing attitudes toward intellectual …read more
Continue reading Tindie Seller Reviews a Knock-Off of His Own Product