Tag: Hacking

Technology Triple Trivia

3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. December 15, 2015 1. What is worse than getting your Yahoo account hacked? Hint: Answer: getting your life hacked, including delivery of unwanted pizzas.  As a result of mischievous hacking, one Illinois family experienced the following:  “[b]omb threats have been made under their names. Police cars and fire trucks […]

Wednesday Web Watch for January 21, 2015

Cory Doctorow, in a piece for WIRED entitled How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm,  lambasts laws that require computing devices to have measures to prevent, curtail or otherwise control certain uses.  Doctorow claims that any such legal requirements will become “intolerable and deadly dangerous when our 3-D printers, self-driving cars, smart […]

Tuesday Triple Trivia Tease for March 18, 2014

3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. Every Tuesday. 1.  What appears to be the easiest way to get an A? Hint: Answer:  an easy to install keystroke logger (post break & enter) may be all you need to learn your professor’s computer password and change your D to an A.  Of course, the timing has […]