While guarding a millionaire's art treasures, De Cock and Vledder are called to the murder of a young man chained to a radiator. That same night a valuable silver jug is stolen from the exhibition.
Monthly update 261 • January 2012 • 2012-01-01 - 2012-01-31
January 2012 brought the SOPA blackout, the Megaupload takedown, Google's plan to merge user data and a string of breaches and surveillance disclosures.
In 1596, a Dutch crew led by Willem Barentsz sails for a northern route to Asia but gets trapped in Arctic ice and must survive a brutal winter on Nova Zembla.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.screencapture, controlling screenshot format, location, and behaviour.
A funeral in Amsterdam for a criminal killed in Antwerp opens an international case. De Cock spots a mourner he knows has been dead for two years.
December 2011 was dominated by the Carrier IQ phone-logging firestorm, a wave of plaintext Chinese password leaks, and the Anonymous raid on Stratfor.
Monthly update 260 • December 2011 • 2011-12-01 - 2011-12-31