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The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable. It’s called Silk Road. The URL is incredibly obscure, you can only access the site through Tor, and Bitcoins (explanation) are the defacto currency. Shipments go through the U.S. Postal Service. It was destined to happen.
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs. Amen. (via Simon Willison)
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords. Gawker made a number of classic mistakes. Another wake-up call for the internet driver’s license.
Gawker Media gets hacked. “Thoroughly and completely owned” is likely a better phrase.