DDoS

A brief note from yours truly. We will be switching to a weekly release schedule, with shorter summaries, but still one for each day. So every Friday, you get 5 stories from The Hacker Site, from Monday through Friday. This is to both let the comments generally play out over a longer period of time, as well as have a smaller archive down the road. Fifty two DDoS a year sounds much nicer than two hundred and sixty, especially if you're scrolling the archive page. With that out of the way, let's get into it.

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google - July 28, 2025

Europe has discovered an infinite money hack. It sues Google for monopolistic practices in the EU, and mandates apps pass Google's (or Apple's, for iPhones) security checks. Great minds at work. Speaking of great minds at work, Hackers seem to be more concerned that the EU depends on the US to do its techno-totalitarian stint rather than the fact that the EU is on a techno-totalitarian stint. Other Hackers claim that GrapheneOS has been banned before in countries, which is a very helpful observation. A few Hackers bask in the glory of having called the 1984 Internet era at some point in the past.

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in - July 29, 2025

The UK forces ID verification for some Internets. The UK citizens use an Internet technology to avoid the potential of linking their ID to their favorite e-hentai tags. Hackers think that the UK will shortly start banning VPN endpoints, which the common folk will be too dumb, unlike the Hackers, to circumvent. Other Hackers link a petition to the UK parliament, because democratic petitions have provedly helped Internet freedom time and again, which is why the UK is here in the first place.

Our $100M Series B - July 30, 2025

An Internet company has a new idea. Hardware designed along with software. Kind of like Apple now, IBM in the past, and many, many, many other companies, but in Hackerspeak. They raised $100M USD for this in their Series B, or about as much as an openAI engineer that left for Meta gets as a sign-on. Hackers put their big boy pants on and discuss serious subjects like pay packages for employees and equity vs salary. Those conversations generally end up in anecdotes and why they would personally never change their life choices of picking X over Y. The CTO is a Hacker himself, and is running defense in the comments. Always a good sign.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong - July 31, 2025

Is there anything more akin to Hacking than housing? Potentially, but the Hackers have decided to spend this fine day discussing an article that makes a radically new argument. Maybe housing supply is low because of too many laws. Hackers point out that the journalist is not a housing expert, but rather talked to experts and critics cited in popular studies (i.e. he did journalistic work). Other Hackers explain basic economics with, I kid you not, food analogies. Then finally, the politisperging begins, naturally.

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided - August 1, 2025

In a surprising twist, the EU might actually move forward with the law that they have introduced to a vote half a dozen times in about as many years. This time? It's the same. People don't like it and have never liked it, but as the EU is a democratic institution, that does not matter. The law, of course, effectively backdooring all EU devices to scan your messages for child abuse. Children in the EU are going to be the safest on earth, folks. Hackers see this as slightly totalitarian, and push back against it. They claim that the EU is making it difficult on purpose to give the people a voice, a concept that truly shakes the foundation of the European Union itself. What will happen next? Will math become outlawed in Europe? Will people revolt and overthrow the EU over the privacy they don't even know they're losing? Is this really the end for Superman? Tune in to find out, some time this October. And if not then, Next year. Or the one after that. We'll be here for a while.