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From his grade-school Atari obsession and his teenage involvement in the L0pht Heavy Industries hacker group, to co-hosting Discovery Channel’s Prototype This! and starting his own company, Grand Idea Studio, Joe Grand has always maintained his passion for engineering.
[ continue ]MAKE: Blog
Joe has been on the MAKE technical advisory board since the first issue, and is the author of the longest project (35 pages) to ever run on the pages of MAKE: the Atari 2600PC.
[ continue ]Project Magazine (iPad)
In just ten years, the word ‘hacker’ has gone from being at best an insult, at worst a criminal accusation, to becoming a mission statement for some of the world’s biggest companies. Forget stealing UFO secrets from the Pentagon, jail-braking iPads or even automating playtime with Fido, the greatest triumph of the hacker has been hacking our culture itself.
[ continue ]This Machine Kills Secrets
At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. This is the story of the code and the characters—idealists, anarchists, extremists—who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism can be.
[ continue ]Reuters
Security experts say that automakers have so far failed to adequately protect these systems, leaving them vulnerable to hacks by attackers looking to steal cars, eavesdrop on conversations, or even harm passengers by causing vehicles to crash.
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