…on mysterious food rations. A Kroger supermarket at Kenwood Plaza, Cincinnati tests prototype bar code scanners in July 1972. 1974: Counting Codes: The first bar code scanner is installed in…

…of one official investigation, Eugene Spafford, pointed out, the code contained no commands that would harm a computer on which it ran, only commands intended to exploit vulnerabilities that allowed…

…code, HR documents, and other files Decepticons 2017 Emmanuel Macron campaign staff emails Unknown 2017 Table 1: Public Interest Leaks There are likely cases—and I know of one—whereby a hacker…

…certifications acknowledged this point: “Real world experience and knowledge are what will carry the day. The best hackers are not the certified ones, but are the ones that are doing…

…by mating lenses together is a “macro lens hack” (Cunningham 2008), and that amateur tax evasion is a “tax hack” (Torrone 2010). As computer hacking hits the mainstream, discussions arise…

…hacks of the computational paradigms and imaginaries of his time. Kay took heterodox programming techniques like the one pioneered by SIMULA, new visualization techniques like the ones developed by the…

…writing code, stopping only to ice his wrists (Townsend 2015). Yet, questions arose on the ground about the value and meaning of an endeavor that required an ever-growing number of…

The 2010 Colombian presidential race revealed the tensions between not merely two candidates, but two different forms of leveraging political power. Juan Manuel Santos, the heir of two-term president Alvaro…

…combined with other types of data and, finally, when and how it was deleted. These highly complex compliance systems will provide a panoramic view into complex information networks, but they…

…that had gone over the cliff-edged winding roads. The cops were apparently a little busy, just then. Repo Man d. Alex Cox. 1984 # Every time. No exceptions. It was…

…multiple weeks, extending the drama of revelation and surprise. The ClimateGate dump was one event that became a central touchstone of discussion and worldbuilding for an established community; the Podesta…

…Clu to trial. As in the recent WannaCry ransomware attack, or the Apple iPhone vs. FBI San Bernardino terrorism investigation of summer 2016, this case reveals the entanglement of security…

…of someone who had hacked the emails and then found someone, found the right person to give them to, or who was contracted to do the hacking? KZ: Yes. I…

You have never seen a menhaden, but you have eaten one. Although no one sits down to a plate of these silvery, bug-eyed, foot-long fish at a seafood restaurant, menhaden…

…promise and enthusiastic investment. Chimeras—monstrous, hybrid, or simply fantastical—tend to be figures of liminality. Their importance is heightened in moments when someone or something sits betwixt and between social categories…

…to comparatively visualize the respective profitability of diverse demographic segments. The company spokesperson presented one such map in which cumulative levels of spending for different slot types appeared as color-coded…

…is the alternation between speaking and silence. This alternation occurs not only between spaces—the lab or public space—but also between concerns. The concern in the laboratory is the delicate process…

…introduction of competition. When one follows this kind of expertise, the history of deregulation only begins where critics like Harvey (2005) claim that it ends. The influx of information workers…

…Liverpool Post started on June 7, announcing an “investigation” from a “Medical Research Council research worker [who] has gone to Sierra Leone to investigate an abnormal prevalence” of the disease.[1]…

…specialized sort: not one of particular objects, but instead of the most generic objects possible, against which others can be benchmarked, simultaneously completely typical and as specific as exacting measurement…

…to actually do something against crime. One classic way to do this is to downgrade complaints. For example, someone comes in the police headquarter and reports a rape. The problem…

…the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the web to perform complex computation” (Law & von Ahn, 2011: viii). The fruits of this research are familiar to anyone…

…social movements. Resource partitioning theory posits that markets may be separated between a few dominant large-scale and highly concentrated generalist companies on one side and, on the other, small-scale entrepreneurs…

…programs”—or just worms—incorporating networked machines into a larger distributed computation (Shoch and Hupp 1982). There is one glaring fantasy element in this story, though, one giant fire-breathing dragon on what…

…their security and breaches, customers can make better-informed decisions about which products and services to use, making it more likely for companies to invest in their security. One way this…

…millions of scientific articles in piratical shadow libraries and making them freely available to anyone and everyone, without any charge or limitation whatsoever (Bodó 2014b; Cabanac 2015; Liang 2012). These…