The mobile phone revolution in Papua New Guinea (PNG) began in July 2007 when Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien’s company Digicel, in response to the government’s liberalization of the tele-communications sector,…

…leak: “more than 700,000” 12 Number of times “spirit cooking” and “pizza” were referenced in DNC/Podesta hacks: Not enough to warrant shooting up Comet Ping Pong. Number of Computer Fraud…

…an increasingly common phenomenon since the mid-1950s,[7] USAID contracted Cline to develop a measure for the capacity of a sovereign to service international debt and thereby construct a composite early…

…to obtain lineman’s equipment. While this form of “no-tech hacking” was most popular in the 1980s and 1990s, popular targets included the phone company, high-tech companies, Radio Shack, law firms,…

…what was going on and how to stop it. Eventually, the sheer quantity of compromised vehicles, combined with the minute variations in lane-spacing, small differences in car handling characteristics and,…

…supporters working alone, or gathering in geographic and affinity groups, canvassed communities across the country, providing critical organizational infrastructure for the campaign in key states. Supporter involvement was by design…

…striking only one arrest. On the contrary, the broken window theory, armed with Compstat, allows for one to compile, add, and present very important misdemeanor numbers. Now, Compstat serves not…

…in four to six hours with a basic manual and no specialist tools. Everything comes in two compact boxes, much like those that contain your new bed and table from…

…computers; unreliable network connectivity; unintelligible voice messages; difficulties using mobile phones and computers; health workers lacking time to enter health data into the computer, compromising its circulation; women who won’t…

…surgeon, a Russian cultural minister, the Walt Disney Company, and the U.S. military. Ultimately, the Choreometrics team gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw footage, representing 2,000 different communities. Each…

…and state environmental monitors, however, repeatedly brushed off these complaints, even as they failed to combat pipe corrosion. According to recent criminal charges, some even went so far as to…

…the early 1920s bananas had become the first exotic fruit commonly available to Americans—with numbers rivaled only by the apple. Like sugar and coffee before it, the construction of demand…

…hands of a small number of people. Info-DES, an association mainly composed of DES mothers, in the early 1990s worked with mobilized clinicians to build the first French forums offering…

…disease that combined high virulence, high transmissibility, and the absence of effective treatments. One participant in the exercise, alluding to a famed science fiction scenario from the late 1960s, commented:…

…core members of GhostSec were AnonCyberGost, WauchulaGhost, DigitaShadow, Comedianon, TorReaper, ISHunter, and GhostSecPI. The focus was to take down “daesh” in all its online manifestations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEVAjtt_ls&w=400 GhostSec included women and…

…the emergence of the PIH, various kinds of hack-leak combinations and hacktivist techniques were common. Indeed, most of these can qualify as both political and of interest to the public;…

…admitting to germ-warfare missions; twenty-one American GI’s held as Korean War POWs defected to communist lands; and there appeared to be a blind spot in American individualism, which was evidently…

…companies and grocery stores were upset with the loss of product space, stores complained about the operational complexity of stocking milk in the center store, and no one could agree…

…complex web of economic interconnections into which it was embedded: the number of employees, the volume of its total production, the raw material inputs it used, and the finished products…

…Along with colleagues, he developed a number of research projects focused on farmed wild birds: farm surveys to count the number of birds, investigations of how birds were marketed, and…

…2004). It served to draw attention to the vulnerability of aging American electrical infrastructure and the relative complacency of power companies and governments in the face of multiple risks. The…

…planning the continent’s physical infrastructure. PIDA prioritizes infrastructure as part of “a common vision of regional integration” (African Union 2010:3) with an overall aim to “finally build [the African] common…

…a closet and forgotten for more than 10 years. Only in 2001 did these notecards come to the attention of the broader research community. Since that time, linguists and data…

…like this: There were two major competing companies shaping design when the first glucometer machines came out, one in England and another in Germany. A top employee of the British…

…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…

…They form community laboratories, but also work at home, or between university, corporate, and community laboratories. Frequent activities include the fabrication and selling of cheap and user-friendly laboratory instruments and…

…cases have a number of points in common. They both involve the exfiltration of large email databases. These databases may contain records that fall under American and British Freedom of…

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