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Part time house DJ and rogue journalist Nicholas Deleon from CrunchGear was kind enough to point us to a link on Google Video where you can watch the hacker documentary Freedom Downtime in all its glory. Watch Freedom Downtime on Google Video (via CrunchGear)

Trying to call your female escort to let her know you’ll be late? Use one of these payphones hooked up to the Internet via a PBX system. Probably running Asterisk I’m guessing. Check out photos of the setup after the jump.

Found on the second floor of the Hotel Pennsylvania. A group of hackers were selling old phone equipment and patronizing me for taking pictures. I’d rather be a photographer than a group of fat fucks selling old junk!

Oh noes! Some key logger has taken over my World Of Warcraft account! All my gold is missing, all my gear was probably destroyed all because I left my password as “password.” Well, it won’t happen again ’cause Blizzard‘s got this Blizzard Authenticator they’re selling for just $6.50.� It’ll keep them hackers out…unless said hacker happens to be ‘Zero Cool’. ...

Identity theft has become a major problem in today’s world. There are tons of hackers stealing credit card and social security numbers online, but some people still resort to good old mail snooping. The Keyless Locking Mailbox hopes to put your identity in your hands, where it should be. The mailbox has an angled slot which allows for the mailman ...

You want a Chumby, you just don’t know it yet. A Chumby is a DIY versatile multigadget that is capable of displaying a variety of options and can be built into literally anything. The Chumby is basically a processor, some memory and a screen, but the lengths at what you can do with these few supplies are nearly endless. Users ...

The Inquirer reports that a drunk Nintendo representative was spewing at the mouth about the Wii GPU’s hi-def capability, even though the full potential is yet to be seen. So why DON’T we see the Wii slinging out high definition resolution? Apparently, for two reasons. The console can’t handle a reasonable frame rate for true HD quality and because the ...

Today on the official Apple news blog, Steve Jobs writes about Apple’s involvement with DRM on songs sold from iTunes. Jobs says that Apple would jump at the chance for DRM-free music, but won’t for one major reason. Steve Jobs expresses how if Apple were to remove the DRM liscensing, the four major music companies would pull their music from ...