We love hacking gadgets, but few great opportunities have come up on our radar lately so we thought we’d ask you for some suggestions. What are your favourite lesser-known, hackable gadgets? More »
Getting locked out of your home, your computer or anywhere else you want to be can suck. The same goes for those times when your gadgets prevent you from doing what you want to do with them, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are the top 10 ways you can break into virtually anything with a literal or figurative lock. More »
Android: It was only a matter of time before an app like previously mentioned Firesheep came out for mobile devices to further prove how insecure many popular sites are. Like Firesheep, DroidSheep listens to network traffic and can capture session tokens. More »
Sometimes disobedience is necessary and good when rules fail us, and it’s at the core of why we hack. Hacking is a means of expressing dissatisfaction, confounding the mechanism, and ultimately doing better. Here’s why it’s so important. More »
If you’ve ever had suspicions that someone may be reading your email but you’ve never seen proof, weblog MakeUseOf details how to set up an “electronic tripwire” in your email account to keep you aware of email break-ins. The trick uses a web utility called OneStatFree to track file requests, and depends on the email snoop reading this email. Since OneStatFree will let you know if anyone tries downloading the file (and will log the time, IP address, and approximate location of the snoop), you’ll know the snoop was there even if the he tries covering his tracks by marking the message as unread. If you’re even slightly suspicious that someone’s reading your email, the first thing you should do is change your password, but if you’re still not feeling safe, this is a decent trick for finding out for sure. Are you Sure your Email isn’t being Hacked? [MakeUseOf]
