{"id":46,"date":"2021-11-23T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T06:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-11-23T22:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T06:03:52","slug":"angry-tech-news-11-fungible-modders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/angry-tech-news-11-fungible-modders\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Tech News #11: Fungible Modders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_119\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-46-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/mp3\/angrytechnews_011.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/mp3\/angrytechnews_011.mp3\">https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/mp3\/angrytechnews_011.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/mp3\/angrytechnews_011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/?powerpress_pinw=46-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/mp3\/angrytechnews_011.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"angrytechnews_011.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 20:02 &#8212; 12.6MB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fingerprint hacks, DNA harvested from COVID tests, A massive NFT leak, cranky but ineffective Activision employees, and what happens when a company decides to take back a modding community (hint: lawyers get involved)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spoofing a fingerprint scanner with a laser printer and some elmers glue<br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kraken.com\/post\/11905\/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how\/\">https:\/\/blog.kraken.com\/post\/11905\/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NFT Bay &#8220;pirates&#8221; every NFT<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xgdxvw\/someone-made-a-pirate-bay-for-nfts\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xgdxvw\/someone-made-a-pirate-bay-for-nfts<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/thenftbay.org\">https:\/\/thenftbay.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cignpost covid testing company sells DNA data taken from nasal swabs<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/11\/14\/covid-test-firm-sell-swabs-carrying-customers-dna\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/11\/14\/covid-test-firm-sell-swabs-carrying-customers-dna\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take-Two and Rockstar Take their own modding community to court<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/gta-modders-to-court-our-game-fixes-enhancements-are-fair-use-211116\/\">https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/gta-modders-to-court-our-game-fixes-enhancements-are-fair-use-211116\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy---the-definitive-edition\">https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy&#8212;the-definitive-edition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bobby Kotick petition<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/18\/22789679\/activision-blizzard-ceo-bobby-kotick-employees-petition-removal\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/18\/22789679\/activision-blizzard-ceo-bobby-kotick-employees-petition-removal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingerprint hacks, DNA harvested from COVID tests, A massive NFT leak, cranky but ineffective Activision employees, and what happens when a company decides to take back a modding community (hint: lawyers get involved) Links: Spoofing a fingerprint scanner with a laser printer and some elmers gluehttps:\/\/blog.kraken.com\/post\/11905\/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how\/ The NFT Bay &#8220;pirates&#8221; every NFThttps:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xgdxvw\/someone-made-a-pirate-bay-for-nftshttps:\/\/thenftbay.org Cignpost covid testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78,79,75,72,76,77,73,74],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-activision","tag-blizzard","tag-dna","tag-fingerprint","tag-gaming","tag-mods","tag-nft","tag-pcr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angrytechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}