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Some Unorthodox Back-To-School Online Safety Tips For the Tech Savvy

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Have you read the latest online safety back-to-school tips? Some of the advice is excellent, such as resisting the urge to click on unsolicited links in text messages, locking your phone before you put it down, and never sharing your passwords. However, to the tech-savvy among us, these bits of advice make us roll our […]… Read More

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Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf

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As a way to avoid casualties in celebratory gunfire, Beirut designer Salim Kadi has made a keffiyeh from Kevlar, the same plastic material used for bulletproof vests. Continue reading Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf→

Taming the Beast: Pro-Tips for Designing a Safe Homebrew Laser Cutter

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Homebrew laser cutters are nifty devices, but scorching your pals, burning the house down, or smelling up the neighborhood isn’t anyone’s idea of a great time. Lets face it. A 60-watt laser that can cut plastics offers far more trouble than even the crankiest 3D-printers (unless, of course, our 3D printed spaghetti comes to life and decides to terrorize the neighborhood). Sure, a laser’s focused beam is usually pointed in the right direction while cutting, but even an unfocused beam that reflects off a shiny material can start fires. What’s more, since most materials burn, rather than simply melt, a …read more

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Working with Mains Voltage: The Electrifying Conclusion!

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This is the second in a two-part series looking at safety when experimenting with mains-voltage electronic equipment, including the voltages you might find derived from a mains supply but not extending to multi-kilovolt EHT except in passing. In the first part we looked at the safety aspects of your bench, protecting yourself from the mains supply, ensuring your tools and instruments are adequate for the voltages in hand, and finally with your mental approach to a piece of high-voltage equipment.

The mental part is the hard part, because that involves knowing a lot about the inner life of the mains-voltage …read more

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New York Wants Cops to Use ‘Textalyzers’ to Scan Your Phone After a Car Accident

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Cellebrite is developing mysterious new tech that would let police see if you were using your phone while driving. Continue reading New York Wants Cops to Use ‘Textalyzers’ to Scan Your Phone After a Car Accident→

Human Adversaries – Why Information Security Is Unlike Engineering

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A common theme among information security commenters and keynotes is that infosec can and either will or should evolve to be more like structural engineering, product safety, and public health, as they have all but eliminating the risk of dying in a commercial aircraft accident or dying from polio. Why don’t we follow the same process to stop getting hacked? It would be nice if attackers were just a disease, pest, or accident that we could vaccinate, spray, or certify away. But we have intelligent, adaptive, goal-driven, human adversaries. So let’s learn from the fields that have been dealing with them for centuries. Continue reading Human Adversaries – Why Information Security Is Unlike Engineering→