Intellectual Property

Rhymes with “Say Please?”

“GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns” – Malwarebytes Labs Q: Should Cupertino start paying bounties for ZDE discoveries? In late 2017, word of a new iPhone unlocker device started to circulate: a device called GrayKey, made by a company named Grayshift. — Read on Malwarebytes I’m going back to my flip phone. 📞 “SayContinue reading “Rhymes with “Say Please?””

“She Absolutely Has Sociopathic Tendencies”: Elizabeth Holmes, Somehow, Is Trying to Start a New Company! | Vanity Fair

I’ll be honest, I’m really staring to like this girl. 😘 Silicon Valley is notoriously full of founders who exaggerate, dupe investors and the media, and may even outright lie to Congress, often getting away with their deceit. John Carreyrou, author of a new book on Theranos, explains why this time Holmes went 10 stepsContinue reading ““She Absolutely Has Sociopathic Tendencies”: Elizabeth Holmes, Somehow, Is Trying to Start a New Company! | Vanity Fair”

Stop Shooting Your Dinner

The Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City (sitting beneath the offices of both Creative Artists Agency and the Annenberg Foundation) is pairing with Craft to offer 10% off dinner to any of the exhibit’s attendees. Who Shot Rock & Roll opens on June 23 ~ October 7, 2012 and features images from over 100 iconicContinue reading “Stop Shooting Your Dinner”

The War on Information

In America, we’ve seen the poor attacked following the War on Poverty; we’ve seen children jailed in the War on Drugs; and the War on Terror has ripped from us of our rights as American citizens. Now it looks like we may be headed for a War on Information. America may one day use piracy as aContinue reading “The War on Information”

AMC Theatres to MPAA: “Fuck off”

Suck it, Valenti. “This isn’t just about business. This is about overthrowing dead culture.” – Steve Jobs, from The Pirates of Silicon Valley As the concept of intellectual property fades into obscurity, the people of planet earth have reached a major milestone. I don’t think this has ever happened since the creation of that McCarthyisticContinue reading “AMC Theatres to MPAA: “Fuck off””