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*”Safebook” is a browser extension that removes all the content from Facebook in order to make it “safer.”

Aphex Twin ‎- Cheetah EP

experimenting with ‘fractional Brownian motion’

Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage — Krebs on Security

A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion today for a large number of Web sites was launched with the help of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, such as CCTV video cameras and digital video recorders, new data suggests.

Earlier today cyber criminals began training their attack cannons on Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company that provides critical technology services to some of the Internet’s top destinations. The attack began creating problems for Internet users reaching an array of sites, including Twitter, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, Spotify and Netflix.

According to researchers at security firm Flashpoint, today’s attack was launched at least in part by a Mirai-based botnet. Allison Nixon, director of research at Flashpoint, said the botnet used in today’s ongoing attack is built on the backs of hacked IoT devices — mainly compromised digital video recorders (DVRs) and IP cameras made by a Chinese hi-tech company called XiongMai Technologies. The components that XiongMai makes are sold downstream to vendors who then use it in their own products.

Throbbing Gristle might well be one of the most fascinating stories of 20th-century arts. These psychedelic pranksters laid out the foundations for a musical genre that has long since shed its art world roots in favor of heavy-metal values. Before the members became industrial heroes, they were associated with the mail and performance art movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Isolated and cast-off for their interests in the macabre and the oppressive, they launched a campaign on several fronts. Along with record production, one of their efforts included the publication of a newsletter entitled Industrial News. 

These zines make for entertaining reading and a good introduction to the ideas and methods that characterized the collective. Who else combined emerging technologies, and DIY ethos with the ideas of William S. Burroughs?

Basement Books has lovingly reprinted these newsletters for those who may not have been aware of the group during their heyday. Anyone interested in the mail-art phenomena, and the do-it-yourself music explosion of the late 1970’s is sure to take interest in these products that we now are stocking at both of our locations! 

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