Links (all)

Stuff I read, stuff I like on the web.

Hardware

Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning's Fellowship. Cowardice or something worse? techdirt.com/article…

Horrible person of the week: Mason Soiza, who bought Wordpress plugins to infest them with spam. wordfence.com/blog/2…

Sanity prevails: Shiva Ayyadurai's defamation lawsuit against Techdirt is thrown out. techdirt.com/article…

Bad Equifax breach just revealed. If you're a customer, you need to read about this. arstechnica.com/info…

Cory Doctorow reminds us that the things we buy are increasingly behaving like corporate minions. locusmag.com/Perspec…

If you have an Instagram account, you can expect to start getting more email and phone spam soon. arstechnica.com/info…

Skeevy patent troll WetroLan pays up and crawls back under the bridge. Score another one for the good guys! techdirt.com/article…

US Attorney General Sessions says local police need military equipment to fight hurricanes. Seriously. techdirt.com/article…

Brian Krebs delves into the mysteries of Twitter bots and why they're a thing. krebsonsecurity.com/…