…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

“To be rich, first build a road.” – Chinese proverb Tianhe Road, Guangzhou. By David290 In our present era, China stands out as the paradigmatic infrastructural state: a state produced…

U.S. intelligence officers discuss Chinese espionage in dramatically different terms than they use in talking about the Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. Admiral Michael Rogers, head…

…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…

…the IKEA store. More attractively, the design arrives with a number of innovative little tricks, including a photovoltaic panel that provides sufficient electricity to power a small light and mobile…

…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…

…said everything will be fine mum if you see this dont worry i love you 80s Digital Fantasy Phone. Illustration by Amisha Gadani. Plausible Deniability “We’re dead.” “Shut up Jose,…

…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…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…security of devices, networks, and people. While the vulnerability of IoT devices is now well known, it is not just cheap consumer equipment that lacks sensible protocols or whose existing…

…Buddhism the state religion still rankles today amid persistent civil conflict (The Irrawaddy 2014; Saw Yan Naing 2013). Chinese and Indian communities, once dominant in trade and colonial administration, also…

…respond to the 1997 virus. They identified SARS as a coronavirus, and traced its animal origins in civet cats – consumed in Chinese traditional medicine – and bats. Considering animals…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…by a single equation: the reproductive ratio, or R0, which determines the average number of people a sick individual will infect. Spreading only through close physical contact with very sick…

…the ever-increasing number of conditions that aid packages imposed on poor countries had no positive effect on compliance, and were significantly reducing borrower governments’ “ownership” of the reforms (Boughton 2003)….

…277). This lack of preparedness was especially alarming, he argued, since the world could expect an increasing number of epidemic emergencies due to a number of factors: growth in human…

…have ensued among OPM leaders when they received this letter. As it turned out, OPM had itself also been the subject of an direct cyber attack by Chinese hackers back…

…making a script to help with booking a cheap train ticket. There are all sorts of little everyday examples that help us get in the backdoor of all sorts of…

…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…

…some local journalists and activists. From my perennial checklist of technological solutionism to preach everywhere I go, I suggested to one of these activists that he encrypt his phone. Later…

…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…

…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…

…for a number of articles in this issue. Leaving aside the question of whether these devices can, in fact, operate successfully without more traditional infrastructures somewhere in the background (the…

…otherwise diverse cases described here by Jonathan Bach (on Chinese infrastructural development), Sven Opitz and Ute Tellmann (on infrastructural Europe), James Christopher Mizes (on infrastructural Africa), and G. Soe Lin…