The cyber-lawyer who wants to teach everyone how to hack

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Scott Shapiro wants to teach the world how to hack. An expert on legal philosophy and the founding director of Yale University’s Cybersecurity Lab, his day job is to provide cutting-edge teaching for Yale law students on how the online world works and how to keep it secure. He believes that we can only effectively …

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Pegasus review: Terrifying exposé of the world’s most powerful spyware

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Pegasus Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud (Macmillan) EDWARD SNOWDEN’s 2013 leaks from the US National Security Agency triggered a global debate around state surveillance – but even he couldn’t quite believe the scale of the story described to him in the summer of 2021. Whistle-blowers had handed French …

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Ukraine’s army of hackers failed to thwart Russia and quickly gave up

As Russia invaded Ukraine, much was made of Ukraine’s volunteer “hacktivist” army, but an analysis of cyberattacks against Russia suggests they achieved little more than minor digital graffiti Technology 1 September 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker The role of the digital battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war is unclear Shutterstock/ViennaVecto​rs Ukraine’s highly touted “hacktivist” army abandoned cyber …

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