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Why lost phones keep pointing at this Atlanta couple’s home
Elena Scotti/FUSIONOver the last year, more than a dozen people have shown up at Christina Lee and Michael Saba’s door in Atlanta looking for stolen smartphones. The visitors’ find-my-phone apps say...
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In new art exhibit, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras shows you what...
Astro Noise/Whitney Museum of American Art“These 8 minutes changed my life, but I didn’t know it at the time.” So says the disembodied voice of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras to visitors of Astro...
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On the ground at the LA hospital taken hostage by hackers
Photo by Nate Berg. Image by Elena Scotti/FUSIONHollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, the Los Angeles hospital recently struck by a computer-disabling cyberattack, was a surprisingly calm place on...
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Apple’s battle with the FBI: All your questions answered
Elena Scotti/FUSIONMy news feed is filled with people talking about Apple, the FBI, the DOJ and iPhone unlocking. What the hell is going on? The FBI has an iPhone left behind by San Bernardino shooter...
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These researchers tracked Banksy like a serial killer to reveal his identity
Getty ImagesBanksy is one of the world’s most famous artists, but amazingly, he’s been able to keep his real identity something of a mystery. On Thursday, though, a group of criminologists announced...
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Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital
Erendira Mancias/FUSIONEighteen USB sticks were taken into a hospital. They were dropped on multiple floors of the building, left in places where they were likely to be found by hospital staff. Within...
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The disturbingly simple way dozens of celebrities had their nude photos stolen
Getty ImagesIn the summer of 2014, stolen nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities flooded the internet. The media called it “Celebgate” while those who gleefully downloaded...
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This Yahoo executive has an incredible collection of encryption machines
Ever since encryption was invented, people have been trying to break it. That was the main takeaway from my recent stroll through the history of secret-keeping and code-breaking represented by Bob...
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It just got a lot harder for the police to read WhatsApp messages
Elena Scotti/FUSIONLaw enforcement agencies around the world are about to get very frustrated by WhatsApp. On Friday, the hugely popular Facebook-owned messaging app turned on end-to-end encryption for...
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How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
Elena Scotti/FUSIONAn hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for...
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If you use Waze, hackers can stalk you
Elena Scotti/FUSIONMillions of drivers use Waze, a Google-owned navigation app, to find the best, fastest route from point A to point B. And according to a new study, all of those people run the risk...
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Waze comes up with a fix for hack that let researchers track users’ movements
Elena Scotti/FUSIONEarlier this week, I reported that a group of researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara had discovered they could hack Waze by creating thousands of ghost drivers...
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The imperfect surveillance state
Pedro Alvarez/FUSIONEach week brings us more stories of new ways in which the government, private companies and fellow citizens are unearthing information about us that we don’t want them to know. New...
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Someone can empty your bank account with the information on the front of...
Elena Scotti/FUSIONYou have to have a bank account these days. Without a bank account of some form it’s almost impossible to participate fully in our economy. You can’t buy anything which costs more...
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Apple’s battle with the FBI: All your questions answered
Elena Scotti/FUSIONMy news feed is filled with people talking about Apple, the FBI, the DOJ and iPhone unlocking. What the hell is going on? The FBI has an iPhone left behind by San Bernardino shooter...
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These researchers tracked Banksy like a serial killer to reveal his identity
Getty ImagesBanksy is one of the world’s most famous artists, but amazingly, he’s been able to keep his real identity something of a mystery. On Thursday, though, a group of criminologists announced...
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Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital
Erendira Mancias/FUSIONEighteen USB sticks were taken into a hospital. They were dropped on multiple floors of the building, left in places where they were likely to be found by hospital staff. Within...
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The disturbingly simple way dozens of celebrities had their nude photos stolen
Getty ImagesIn the summer of 2014, stolen nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities flooded the internet. The media called it “Celebgate” while those who gleefully downloaded...
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This Yahoo executive has an incredible collection of encryption machines
Ever since encryption was invented, people have been trying to break it. That was the main takeaway from my recent stroll through the history of secret-keeping and code-breaking represented by Bob...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It just got a lot harder for the police to read WhatsApp messages
Elena Scotti/FUSIONLaw enforcement agencies around the world are about to get very frustrated by WhatsApp. On Friday, the hugely popular Facebook-owned messaging app turned on end-to-end encryption for...
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