Data Recovery in the Woodshed
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/data-recovery-in-the-woodshed/

A 1TB drive fails. How do you recover the data? If you are like us, you imagine a high-tech lab with serious-looking technicians and engineers. [John Graham-Cumming] managed it in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/data-recovery-in-the-woodshed/)

This Week in Security: TunnelCrack, Mutant, and Not Discord
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/this-week-in-security-tunnelcrack-mutant-and-not-discord/

Up first is a clever attack against VPNs, using some clever DNS and routing tricks. The technique is known as TunnelCrack (PDF), and every VPN tested was vulnerable to one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/this-week-in-security-tunnelcrack-mutant-and-not-discord/)

Cooling Off the Bus Stop
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/cooling-off-the-bus-stop/

If you’ve taken the bus in the summer, you know it can get hot while you wait on your ride, even if there is a roof over the stop. Researchers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/cooling-off-the-bus-stop/)

Hackaday Podcast: Ep 232 Chaos Communications Camp Placeholder Edition
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/609896/

Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communications Camp, and Assistant Editor Tom Nardi is off on vacation, so there’s no real podcast this week. If you need something to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/609896/)

A Quarter Century Of The iMac
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/a-quarter-century-of-the-imac/

Growing older as an engineer turns out to be a succession of moments in which technologies and devices which you somehow still imagine to be cool or exciting, reveal themselves …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/a-quarter-century-of-the-imac/)

Smart Doorbell Focuses on Privacy
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/smart-doorbell-focuses-on-privacy/

As handy as having a smart doorbell is, with its ability to remotely see who’s at the front door from anywhere with an Internet connection, the off-the-shelf units are not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/smart-doorbell-focuses-on-privacy/)

Transforming a Keyboard to a Mouse in Software
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/transforming-a-keyboard-to-a-mouse-in-software/