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If you enjoy and own technology and gadgets of any kind, the conferences highlight a looming security crossroads that affects every layperson. Gizmag takes a look at some of the more important hacks from this year.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/cyber-security-hacks-defcon-black-hat/28599/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div>   <div class="summary_item " data-article="28585"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol/28585/">CreepyDOL system can destroy your privacy for about US$500</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/brian-dodson/">Brian Dodson</a></div> <div class="date">August 6, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol/28585/#comments">5 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol/28585/pictures">2 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol/28585/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol-2.jpg" title="CreepyDOL is a new personal tracking system that allows a user to track, locate, and break..." alt="CreepyDOL is a new personal tracking system that allows a user to track, locate, and break..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Brendan O'Connor is an unabashed hacker who has worked for DARPA and taught at the US military's cybersecurity school. CreepyDOL (Creepy Distributed Object Locator), his new personal tracking system, allows a user to track, locate, and break into an individual's smartphone. "For a few hundred dollars," he says, "I can track your every movement, activity, and interaction, until I find whatever it takes to blackmail you."  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/wi-fi-track-smartphone-creepydol/28585/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="28583"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/misogynistic-twitter-abuse/28583/">Twitter finally gets tougher on death and rape threats</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/james-holloway/">James Holloway</a></div> <div class="date">August 5, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/misogynistic-twitter-abuse/28583/#comments">5 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/misogynistic-twitter-abuse/28583/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/twitter.jpg" title="Is there light at the end of the tunnel? (Image: Andreas Eldh)" alt="Is there light at the end of the tunnel? (Image: Andreas Eldh)"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> It's been an exceedingly ugly fortnight on Twitter. Following a successful campaign orchestrated by journalist and feminist Caroline Criado-Perez to have a woman reinstated on Bank of England banknotes, she has been subjected to a relentless campaign of harassment, with rape and death threats being received by Criado-Perez at a rate of nearly one per minute on July 24, the day it was confirmed that her campaign had been a success. After being the platform for sustained threats and abuse for almost two weeks, Twitter has finally begun to act.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/misogynistic-twitter-abuse/28583/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="28566"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/volumental-3d-scanning-app/28566/">Got a Kinect and a laptop? Get ready to 3D print</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/james-holloway/">James Holloway</a></div> <div class="date">August 2, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/volumental-3d-scanning-app/28566/#comments">2 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/volumental-3d-scanning-app/28566/pictures">7 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/volumental-3d-scanning-app/28566/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/volumental-3d-scanning-app.png" title="Volumental's vision is to be able to 3D print more or less anything you can see" alt="Volumental's vision is to be able to 3D print more or less anything you can see"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Scanning and 3D printing an object could become much simpler if 3D printing company Volumental is successful in crowdfunding the development of a web app which would allow users to scan and print 3D objects using nothing more than a Kinect sensor and a web browser.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/volumental-3d-scanning-app/28566/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="28416"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/uk-porn-filter/28416/">Opinion: Please, sir, may I have some porn? On David Cameron's proposed porn blocker</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/loz-blain/">Loz Blain</a></div> <div class="date">July 23, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/uk-porn-filter/28416/#comments">28 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/uk-porn-filter/28416/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/uk-british-internet-porn-filter-censorship.jpg" title="British PM David Cameron plans to filter all adult content from all UK Internet connection..." alt="British PM David Cameron plans to filter all adult content from all UK Internet connection..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a sweeping censorship plan that would block internet users in the United Kingdom from accessing online pornography unless they specifically request otherwise. British ISPs will be obliged to contact each of their customers to ask whether they want their content filtered, and if no answer is forthcoming, the filter will be applied by default. Speaking of how "online pornography is corroding childhood," Cameron also proposed that search engines stop showing returns for child pornography – and in doing so demonstrated a lack of understanding of the medium.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/uk-porn-filter/28416/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="28382"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-faster-internet/28382/">Could graphene switches lead to 100-times faster internet?</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/dario-borghino/">Dario Borghino</a></div> <div class="date">July 20, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-faster-internet/28382/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-faster-internet/28382/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/graphene-optical-switches.jpg" title="Graphene continues to strengthen its reputation as a wonder material, this time in the fie..." alt="Graphene continues to strengthen its reputation as a wonder material, this time in the fie..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have shown that a few layers of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/graphene/" target="_blank">graphene</a> stacked on top of each other could act as a formidable material for optical switches, delivering speeds up to 100 times faster than current telecommunications technology.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-faster-internet/28382/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="28314"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/last-telegraph-message/28314/">Plug pulled on the world's last commercial electric telegraph system </a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/brian-dodson/">Brian Dodson</a></div> <div class="date">July 16, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/last-telegraph-message/28314/#comments">5 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/last-telegraph-message/28314/pictures">10 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/last-telegraph-message/28314/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/electric-telegraph-morse-western-union-india-last.jpg" title="The Last Ride of the Pony Express - painted by George M. Ottinger in 1873 - showing a Pon..." alt="The Last Ride of the Pony Express - painted by George M. Ottinger in 1873 - showing a Pon..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> After linking the world for 167 years, the commercial electric telegraph is no more. The speed with which electromagnetic telegraph systems took over both short- and long-distance communication in the mid 19th century set the pattern which telephones and the internet would follow, spawning the connected world we now live in. The closing down of India's state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Ltd. (BSNL) network on Monday sparked a last-minute rush of people looking to send a souvenir telegram to mark the historic event before the electric telegraph was relegated to the history books.  <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/last-telegraph-message/28314/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="27955"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/google-project-loon/27955/">Google floats balloon-powered internet network with Project Loon</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/author/jonathan-fincher/">Jonathan Fincher</a></div> <div class="date">June 18, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/google-project-loon/27955/#comments">14 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/google-project-loon/27955/pictures">24 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130807155314/http://www.gizmag.com/google-project-loon/27955/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130807155314im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/google-project-loon.jpg" title="Google recently launched Project Loon, which will send internet-enabled balloons into the ..." alt="Google recently launched Project Loon, which will send internet-enabled balloons into the ..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Almost two-thirds of the world still does not have access to high-speed internet, but Google is determined to change that. Unfortunately, setting up an affordable infrastructure in remote areas is beyond even a huge multinational corporation's capabilities, which is why the company had to devise a completely out-of-the-box solution called Project Loon. 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