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Geek Trivia: What English town is infamous for its role in testing early profanity filters?
There's a computer security term for sorting issues involving dangerous plaintext words. The term is named after an English township that famously ran afoul of some early online pr...
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Webcomic: The piracy paradox
Is DRM about protecting creator rights, or forcing you to buy the same media over and over again each time a new format is released? This comic lays out the issue.
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10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen
We'll never travel faster than light, have personalized spacecraft, or answer the ultimate questions of existence? The Trivia Geek would care to disagree.
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Geek Trivia: Hollywood hack job
On what television show was the notorious cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick cast as a government-employed white-hat hacker, despite the fact that his probation ostensibly required the sh...
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Happy anniversary to the Morris Worm
It's been almost twenty years since the mainstream media discovered there was such a thing as a computer worm, as on Nov. 2, 1988, the Morris Worm escaped MIT labs and set out to s...
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Video: Ultimate hacker pumpkin patch
You've seen all those nutty holiday videos of computer-coordinated, musically accompanied Christmas lights that draw crowds, amaze YouTube viewers, and earn the murderous ire of wh...
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Webcomic: The future of DRM
Webcomic: The future of DRM
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Webcomic: Why hackers shouldn't play D&D
Webcomic: Why hackers shouldn't play D&D
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Everything that's wrong with the Death Star trash compactor
Everything that's wrong with the Death Star trash compactor
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Geek Trivia: Early word gets the worm
What work of science fiction coined the term computer worm?