…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…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

…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…

…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…

…two [comes] to light,” taking ethnographic work to “follow the device as it moves into countries that are culturally or historically distant from its place of origin” (Akrich 1992:211–212). When…

…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…

…becoming a danger to factory SCADA systems in “friendly” countries, and also to prevent it from being repurposed by unfriendly ones. Stuxnet took years to plan, millions of dollars in…

…(see Fearnley, this issue)? Why did it wait until five months later to do so, and more than a month after MSF warned that the outbreak was “totally out of…

…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)…

…congressmen from the Central Valley each sent public letters to President Obama demanding that he order the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to relax its restrictions on water system operators…

…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…

…into being may be erased. The danger of this erasure, to put it plainly, is that there is no reason to believe that Wang (or others) will continue to farm…

…all prior outbreaks had been limited to small geographical areas and to relatively low numbers of cases (see Lakoff, this issue). According to the 1989 scenario, the catastrophic outcome was…

…Meanwhile, the World Bank’s Operation Evaluation Department’s (OED) assessments were pointing to dramatically declining success rates—from 80% to 85% in the 1980s to less than 65% in the 1990s (OED…

…managers attempted to profit from the proclivities of this touch-point collective by carving out a physical space for its members and formally inviting them to gather there—not to socialize, but…

…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…

…gained the least from large-scale infrastructure projects related to energy due to their geographical, political, and/or economic marginalization are also least likely to benefit from the government effort to make…

…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…

…required upwards of a month, maybe even two months. The trick is that you have to get your attacking Tor nodes into a privileged position in the Tor network, and…

…looking forward to the Spirit Cooking at my place” (Lee 2016; Podesta did not respond to this invitation). The alt-right seized upon this term as an oblique reference to satanic…

…which all too often prove painfully accurate about the demonstrable inadequacy of a given intervention, or the exaggerated claims attached to it. Rather, I seek to reorient this critical frame…

…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…

…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…

…about the form of life into which they are to be inserted. None of this is to say that they need remain small in scale. Some have, indeed, been deployed…