Category: old tech
Snail mail hacking
2019-12-02
Some of the most effective hacks don’t require the attacker to touch your computer. This article from Flashpoint provides some insight into how criminals are…
look deep into my eyes… and hand over your cash
2010-09-16
According to a story from the Jakarta Post, “As reports abound of people being lulled, allegedly through a mass-hypnosis technique, to hand valuables or cash…
NerdCation 1 – Titan Missile Silo Museum
2010-05-12
As a child of the cold war, nuclear armageddon was one of the major boogeymen which haunted my dreams. Well, yesterday, I got a chance…
before the internet – the hotline
2009-07-20
Back in the good old days, when the US had nation states as enemies (instead of amorphous trans national ‘franchises’ of enemies), we and the…