…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…

…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…

…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…

…forced to play the game of measurable results, they have begun to design their policies so that they are as easy to measure as possible, distorting development objectives to make…

…cause mechanical generators to operate slightly out of synchronization with the rest of the grid, creating a malfunction leading to explosion and fire.[1] The concern with infrastructural vulnerability has also…

…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)…

…story selected with other stories that could be told, it does not aspire to totality. It is not a proxy for something else. Whereas the speaker aspires to create a…

…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…

…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…

…care, potentially infecting others along the way. Many others came to associate clinics with death and chose to stay at home, avoiding contact with health services altogether. When the international…

…to the nearest ship and direct it to the school. Omega Protein’s fishermen dispatch two smaller boats, which trap the school with a giant net called a purse seine. When…

…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…

…firm—my “day job”—I work closely with top executive teams to understand their shoppers and consumers, the world of food, and the store experience, in order to help create prototype retail…

…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 controversial is rhetorically similar to “just asking questions.” Those in the position to respond to such unfiltered data dumps the most quickly (with the most narratively complete story),…

…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…

…psou may attempt to mediate disputes, either within the police organization or with the family. Recently, Eliane Theillaumas wanted to prove the importance of psychological services to reluctant policemen who…

…hackers and security researchers to use high profile breaches to urge corporate executives or government officials to invest more resources into digital fortifications. Other hacktivist techniques, like website defacements, distributed…

…which refusing to fiddle with a meter would have meant no way to test at all. Glucose meters were not designed to enter humanitarian aid economies. After all, diabetes had…

…She pointed to “a fundamental problem with our water system: a dogmatic adherence to a rigid set of operating criteria that continues to handcuff our ability to rebuild our reserves”…

…later identified as having created valuable precedents helping to trigger the development of new tools to prevent similar damage (Chateauraynaud & Torny 2005). These two successive movements are typical “late…