music – Noise

Friday Squid Blogging: Two-Man Giant Squid

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:03:48 +0000

The Brooklyn indie art-punk group, Two-Man Giant Squid, just released a new album. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Code to the beat of your own drum during Black History Month 2023

Kevin Johnson — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:28:35 +0000

When we think about a celebration, we also think about how important it is to be intentional about sound. And with this month of February being a celebration of Black history in the USA, we want to help you make some noise to amplify the voices, experiences, and achievements of the Black community. From the…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert

Bruce Schneier — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:13:09 +0000

Squid is performing a concert in London in February. If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Rea...

$23 Million YouTube Royalties Scam

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:14:53 +0000

Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other peoples’ music was their own. They successfully stole $23 million before they were caught.

No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably this is not an uncommon fraud.

While the size of the heist and the breadth of the scheme may be very unique, it’s certainly a situation that many YouTube content creators have faced before. YouTube’s Content ID system, meant to help creators, has been weaponized by bad faith actors in order to make money off content that isn’t theirs. While some false claims are just mistakes caused by automated systems, the MediaMuv case is a perfect example of how fraudsters are also purposefully taking advantage of digital copyright rules...

Automatically tune your guitar with Raspberry Pi Pico

Ashley Whittaker — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:55:34 +0000

You sit down with your six-string, ready to bash out that new song you recently mastered, but find you’re out of tune. Redditor u/thataintthis (Guyrandy Jean-Gilles) has taken the pain out of tuning your guitar, so those of us lacking this necessary skill can skip the boring bit and get back to playing. Before you…

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Raspberry Pi makes LEGO minifigures play their own music

Ashley Whittaker — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:31:35 +0000

We shared Dennis Mellican’s overly effective anti-burglary project last month. Now he’s back with something a whole lot more musical and mini. Inspiration Dennis was inspired by other jukebox projects that use Raspberry Pi, NFC readers, and tags to make music play. Particularly this one by Mark Hank, which we shared on the blog last…

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