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Hacking the STLToday Paywall v2025

Welcome back to our continuing series of breaking new STLToday paywall versions. Want to hear something crazy? We’ve been doing this for over 10 years now! Or to put it another way, STLToday.com, the website for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, has been using a paywall for over a decade, and they haven’t been able to make one that isn’t cracked in a matter of minutes.

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The Topsy Project for DEFCON 30

This year at DEFCON, the hacker convention, I joined the Hard Hat Brigade with Topsy, a hard hat that entertains while scanning the wifi environment. Here’s a video I made walking through the basics: I didn’t cover it specifically in the video, but you might be asking: “Um, why?” My answer is: “Why not?

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What Is the New Flipper Zero Hacking Device?

The Flipper Zero is a latest hacker tool to hit the market. It’s still early in it’s development bit it already sports a variety of functions that can allow for unauthorized access and malicious code execution. I have one, I love it already, and I spent the weekend playing around and hanging out on the Discord channel.

DEFCON 28 Wrap Up

DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking convention and always one of the highlights of my year, was last weekend and, of course, remote. I missed being in Vegas with tens of thousands of hackers, but there were still some fantastic talks and conversations over Discord. A quick “Top Five” highlights: If your password is eight characters or less, you essentially don’t have a password.

Amazon Dash Buttons are Awesome For Everything but Buying Stuff

Sell a wifi-enabled button to buy stuff on Amazon? Sure you’d have to make sure you can’t easily modify the button so that people can buy them and not buy stuff on Amazon with them, but that shouldn’t be too hard. Amazon had barely started selling their $5 “Dash Buttons” before this post on Medium showed up: “How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data”.

Alexa, Lets Play Jeopardy!

I’ve been playing around with my new Amazon Echo and writing up some “Skills” for the Amazon Alexa voice assistant and so far so good! What I’ve got above is a link to a YouTube video I did demoing a “Jeopardy” skill. It’s not fully baked in that you can’t play a complete game of Jeopardy, but you can choose a category, get a question, and it will keep score for you.

Beats Music Likes My Clojure Library

I’ll do a full post on the library some time soon. In the meantime, check it out: http://mikeflynn.github.io/beats-clj/ @mikeflynn_ created a Clojure library, now on the developer portal https://t.co/XgTD39uQ5E #beatplatform #clojure — Beats Platform (@beatsplatform) June 19, 2014