You’ve probably seen the ad. A warm photo. Soft light. Someone knitting on a couch that looks like it smells faintly of lavender. The text whispers “Hand-knit. Small batch. Family business.” Maybe it’s a holiday special. Maybe she’s retiring. It feels intimate. Human. Safe. You click. You buy. It never…
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120,000 Home Cameras Hacked — And Privacy Might Be Dead
Every once in a while, a story comes along that makes you stop and think, Wow… we’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross. This is one of those stories. South Korean police arrested four people for hacking more than 120,000 home and business cameras. That number itself is disturbing. What…
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The World Is Asking One Question-Who Leaves Their Girlfriend on a Mountain?!
Some stories make you sigh. Others make you swear under your breath. Then there’s this one — the kind that crawls inside your chest and sits there like a block of ice. A 33-year-old woman froze to death just short of the Grossglockner summit, Austria’s highest peak. And I know…
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Your Cheap Home Camera Might Be Watching You… and Someone Else Might Be Watching Too
Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you stop and think, Wow… we’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross. This is one of those stories. South Korean police arrested four people for hacking more than 120,000 home and business cameras. That number itself is disturbing. What…
Crime
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The Fake Attack Story So Bonkers I Had to Read It Twice
There are bad decisions. There are regrettable decisions. And then there’s the “I hired a scarification artist to carve me up so I could report a violent political hate crime” decision — which is its own category somewhere between Maury Povich and unemployment line. I read the DOJ release like…