…and independent archive. The problem for its engineers was the social itself, the network of interest and biographical relations that limit fair and efficient distribution and produce leaks. They proposed…

…burning a curious hand and to reduce heat loss to the surroundings, it is built to accommodate common cooking surfaces (tavas and pots) and meals perfectly, and it doesn’t require…

…then discuss how the authority and credibility of the certification was ultimately limited by the tension between the goals of professionalism—to standardize and authorize knowledge practices—and the creative and subversive…

…cold” seems a hallmark of grand civilization. The Chinese, Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans all stored snow and ice under insolation for use in cooling drinks and medicines. In southern Europe…

…the code to copy itself and spread. On the other hand, his conviction for Fraud and Abuse clearly sends a different message—that this was a criminal act, and as the…

Vast accumulations of data, documents, records, and samples saturate our world: bulk collection of phone calls by the NSA and GCHQ; Google, Amazon or Facebook’s ambitions to collect and store…

…are based on politics. And resources. And qualified personnel. And care. And steering. In short, they need to be continually produced. As such, bootstrapping can assume different scopes and directions….

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…hacks, leaks, and whistle-blowing? And why did it come into being only between 2007 and 2011, when it was conceivable—ideologically and materially—for it to have emerged much earlier? Prior to…

It was 1965: televisions were blaring, and Alan Lomax was worried. As Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, and Bewitched capered into tangerine family rooms, the famous American…

…of acquisition and release of the ClimateGate and Podesta email databases changed the way the databases could be thought about and thought with, foreclosing some avenues of interpretation, legitimization, and…

…research, the hoarding of exploits and vulnerabilities, the use of those tools by law enforcement and spy agencies, and ultimately citizens’ right to privacy online. The rest of this piece…

…described as “including applicants’ financial histories and investment records, children’s and relatives’ names, foreign trips taken and contacts with foreign nationals, past residences, and names of neighbors and close friends…

…always kept the wireless jailbreaker and the stick separate — plausible deniability. The jailbreaker had legit uses, and wasn’t, in and of itself, illegal. I plugged the USB in and…

…this realm: the cyber realm. And then e-commerce took off after 2000 and it became the interest of criminals because there was a monetary gain to it. And then we…

…the distinctive features of each country’s culture and ideals with view to promoting within each nation sympathy and respect for the ideals and aspirations of the others, and a just…

…security of control systems are degradation, failure, and accident; second, human users; and finally—and least likely and damaging of all—intrusion or “attack.” And many attacks are really exploiting human beings…