…to take her in.[1] A previous husband offered Lucy some money and a used mobile phone. Desperate, hungry, and contemplating suicide, Lucy began calling the contacts saved in the phone…

…of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962: a handful.5 Number of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962 who went on to become any Ivy League professor and famous…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…plastic, and they have the feeling and texture of swimming floats. They have been attached to the frame with hand-tightened bolts and brackets, and the shelter has four small ‘window’…

…MOS@N also comes with material and energy expenditure. Batteries, cell phones, and portable solar panels are often recharged, disposed of, and replaced. Bicycles are repaired and replaced. Bandwidth is consumed….

…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…

…is no injunction to disinfection: guests can enter unhindered. The Palm Camayenne is one of the rare hotels in Conakry that offers western-style accommodations and 24 hours of electricity and…

…an anthropologist the contrast between wild and domestic suggests the classical oppositions of the raw and the cooked, of nature and culture, influenza researchers had far more urgent concerns: to…

…himself, always the head police chief, other precinct commanders, and finally local residents and local business representatives. The report basically meant preparing number charts and quantitative indicators for projection onto…

…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…

…cables from WikiLeaks, a thousand digits of pi, texts from the Bhagavad Gita and the Pope, ASCII art and Valentine’s Day messages, and encoded images and mysterious encrypted files. This…

…that served to store and not to cool. And I would learn that many refrigerators come to Guatemala secondhand, arriving not through a consumer’s demand to own but through a…

…new and dynamic assemblages of public and private actors, claims, and practices to simultaneously pursue public goals and private interests (Best 2014a). Contested Failures Of course, policy failures occur all…

…existing institutional boundaries and divisions of labor: between international health organizations and national governments; between humanitarian medical response, state-based public health, and private sector drug development; and between the routine…

…tarps, makeshift materials, and repurposed buildings. CCUs can provide anywhere from 10 to 30 beds and are supported by unspecialized and minimally trained volunteers from the community—ideally survivors—using equipment and…

…effective in raising a broader set of questions and problems, from the spatial, material, and embodied practices of sanitation and the concerns for personal privacy, safety, and separation from disease…

…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…

…adversaries, and operate in different places, with different technologies, and different services? It’s a topological nightmare. We—the security community—secure corporations and organizations with appropriate modeling, by making uniform and tightening…

…regarding statistical “tricks” and “hid[ing] the decline.” Climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit and other climate research centers also reported an uptick in threatening emails, phone calls, and other…

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…

…the lines between public and private interests; between obligations, gifts and commodities; and between long-term improvement and short-term relief. Limn 9, “Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods,” examines the tremendous intellectual and…

…fires: the social danger they are supposed to fight, sense and report to the bureau and from there to the entire society, and the personal danger they perceive. These two…

…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…

…number one most frequently stolen item in the United States, surpassing alcohol and cigarettes (and raising disturbing questions about the systems in place when a top target of criminalized theft…

…rates from the delta be increased “over and above” the maximum amount allowed by the regulations: “The fate of California and the lives and livelihoods of our constituents are at…