August 2008
The Problem With Music →
negativland.com
Brilliant article written by Steve Albini in the early 90’s regarding the way major record labels screw over musicians.
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization →
adbusters.org
“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.”
‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes
“Using his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips, Mr van Beek took less than an hour to clone and manipulate two passport chips to a level at which they were ready to be planted inside fake or stolen paper passports.
A baby boy’s passport chip was altered to contain an image of Osama bin Laden, and the passport of a 36-year-old woman was changed to feature a picture of Hiba Darghmeh, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed three people in 2003. The unlikely identities were chosen so that there could be no suggestion that either Mr van Beek or The Times was faking viable travel documents.”
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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