…case Winnie needs to make a quick phone call during the day (100 toea = 1 kina). (On-net calls from one Digicel phone to another are billed at 79 toea…

…2 Number of times Sony was pwned in 2011: 21 3 Cost to Sony of 2011 PlayStation Hack: $171M 4 Number of people arrested for the 2011 Playstation hack: Number…

…hackers, and private detectives, dumpster diving has proliferated for all types of reasons. We used to rely on the telephone book to share public information; today, things like phone numbers…

…too little. They are vulnerable to the charge of being too limited as well as the charge of being too expansive. They fail to tackle fundamental global injustices, but they…

…systems, reduce costs for access to health care, and thus contribute to health equity. Connectivity promises to bring new bodies and populations into sight, alleviating suffering and saving lives; any…

…to behave that way. If he failed to help them get their code into Huawei’s fleet, he’d have to answer to governments around the world. If they failed to help…

…Many of these are ransomware attacks, in which relatively easy ways into systems are used to lock their legitimate users out of them. The users are then asked to pay…

…all this freedom came with serious responsibility: every two months they had to go to a “Compstat meeting” to give an accounting before a mixed assembly sometimes including the mayor…

…need to approach this problem differently, and to recognize that civil society isn’t going to secure itself. To help, hackers and security professionals first need to become an integral part…

…to be called up: Number 258.   Welcome to Bitcoin. Or, rather, welcome to the “blockchain,” the system that underlies Bitcoin. Like Borges’s lottery (that most wasteful of civic activities)…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…they believed needed to be pursued, seeking to encourage domestic engagement by various stakeholders. Their goal was to build political support for ambitious, longer-term institutional reforms, whether through (at least…

…from the usual years to months, preparations have begun for large-scale studies in Ebola-affected countries to begin in January 2015. While logistical questions remain—ranging from the number of doses needed…

…Placing significance onto the farmed wild bird as a reified “link”—to be counted, mapped, and described—displaces attention from the practices that went into farming the wild birds in the first…

…set up; tools and capacities for the laboratory identification of emerging diseases were built in a number of regional centers; incentives to address the lack of biomedical counter-measures to manage…

…playfulness. Whereas hackers break or build as a means to get to a specific ends (we “break” something to get into “somewhere”), software developers claim that they create just to…

…researchers understand the nature of the risk of a virus or worm to be simply the risk posed by a virus to a particular computer multiplied by the number of…

…of…maintaining and improving the common technology, open to all, usable by all, modifiable by all’’ (Carlson and Brent 2000:1). As Endy moved to MIT and started to work with Tom…

…who sought to film, take pictures, or livestream from inside the restaurant; angry and harassing phone calls to Comet Ping Pong, other businesses implicated in the theory, and to individuals…

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

…earlier oppositional and alternative technology movements comes into focus: Joseph Schumacher’s challenge to gigantism in Small Is Beautiful; the Whole Earth Catalog, with its ambition to bypass the great institutions…

…to the traumatic event). Based on these debriefings, the psou tries to focus on monitoring the solidarity between the officers, and teaches them how to remain alert to the signs…

…data and tools to unveil new details about the use of exploits and malware by US intelligence, but evidence as to whether the data was acquired from a hack or…

…today, glucometers are often used in conjunction with continuous glucose monitoring systems or even insulin pumps. But these, to my knowledge, were not available in Belize even to the wealthiest,…

…minimizing the incursion of invasive species. Figure 2: The delta smelt. Let us now return to the 2016 debate over regulations designed to protect the smelt from the water projects’…

…relating to DES should provide the necessary model to anticipate threats posed by other substances to animal and human development. However, the previous history of this molecule shows a complete…

…workers with high rates of task acceptance. However, large scale requesters use a number of other methods to discriminate “good faith” workers from the “malicious.” Most methods boil down to…