…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…

…have to enter patient data into the computer after each consultation, not to mention the tireless work of MOS@N’s field manager, logisticians, technicians, and supervisors. Improved access to health care…

…on. In theory, there was no reason not to use machine learning to train this too — just tell the algorithm to select for behaviours that resulted in the shortest…

…failing to get the attention of the upper echelon of the police department, he decided to give the recordings to The Village Voice, a New York publication with huge distribution,…

…on The Pirate Bay, and gutted whatever else remained on the system. HB Gary CEO Aaron Barr on The Colbert Report, 2011. Owing in part to the irony of a…

…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)…

…am there to learn about what happens outside the nutrition clinic, which is a place where (mostly) women stand on scales to measure their BMI—the ratio of mass to height…

…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…

…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…

…Placing significance onto the farmed wild bird as a reified “link”—to be counted, mapped, and described—displaces attention from the practices that went into farming the wild birds in the first…

…the “inevitability” of future outbreaks: “All efforts to develop, test, and approve vaccines must be followed through to completion at the current accelerated pace…as a contribution to global health security,…

…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…

…to share cat pictures, memes, porn, music, and news as well as an unprecedented platform for intellectual liberation, organization, and mobilization. Pretty great, right? However, to quote Kevin Kelly: There…

…model of publication encourages conspiratorial modes of analysis and has the potential to damage journalistic norms like fact-checking, translation, and contextualization. To illustrate this aura, I focus on two cases:…

…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…

…of government, business, education and religion, and its celebration of tools that would enable the “individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and…

…(O’Connell 119) wrote one of Bratton’s assistants. The pressure put on cops in order to improve their ability to fight crime appeared to work as crime sunk dramatically in those…

…was not how to access hidden data, but rather “how to cope with a perfect avalanche of information.” The solution, according to Lowe, depended both on having people “with sufficient…

…French doctors must rely on Dutch and American cohorts for information related to the effects of DES exposure on the third generation and psychological effects or cancer prevalence in mature…

…push to re-start construction of the aqueduct expansion for developments near town. While there are rumors of reactivation, the construction of the original aqueduct expansion near Sardinal is still stalled….

…temperatures, or left people trying to recode their machine’s time stamp, which might allow recently expired strips to come back into circulation. Many said a jar that expired a day…

…of how to weigh the protection of the delta’s fish against the demands of farms and cities to the south, the debate points to a more general question about the…

…to train and maintain employees and infrastructure. They pay only for the data workers produce to their liking, and they can refuse on a whim. Amazon’s Terms of Participation define…

…of “Information Warfare,” promulgated in an only recently declassified 1992 document, comprised: The competition of opposing information systems to include the exploitation, corruption, or destruction of an adversary’s information system…