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The band shrugged off the threat and released the files on Bandcamp. They’re long and not very interesting, they said. Continue reading Radiohead releases ‘OK Computer’ sessions that hacker tried to ransom
Radiohead was breached but, instead of paying ransom, the English rock band decided to release a collection of 18 hours of unheard music on Bandcamp for charity, the band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood announced on Twitter on Tuesday. According to G… Continue reading Radiohead Releases Music Online Instead of Giving in to Blackmailer Demands
How do you stop a hacker from making a fortune out of the files they have stolen from you? Files that thousands of people are probably desperate to own?
Simple. You make the files readily available to anyone on the internet to access.
Continue reading Radiohead refuses to pay $150,000 ransom for ‘hacked’ recordings, releases them instead
Bad news: Radiohead was hacked. Last week, a hacker stole the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke’s private minidisk archive from the band’s third album and subsequent major worldwide hit, “OK Computer.” The hacker demanded $150,000 or they’d release it to the public. Stuck between a ransom and a hard place, Radiohead released the tapes themselves. …
Continue reading “Some sage security advice after Radiohead’s unreleased music hack”
Continue reading Some sage security advice after Radiohead’s unreleased music hack
We’ll admit that only a few of us here at Hackaday are Radiohead fans. However, we all couldn’t help but appreciate their new remastered release of OK Computer. The new release contains some bonus material. At the end of the bonus material is a strange noise that turns out to be a ZX Spectrum Basic program.[OooSLAJEREKooO] managed to find it, play it, and record it for all of us (see video below).
The two minutes of tones might sound unfamiliar to a modern computer user, but back in the day, audio tones were used to communicate over phone lines and …read more
Continue reading Radiohead’s Greatest Hits for the ZX Spectrum