…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 poems about Hacking in The New Yorker in 1991: Number of times the word “hacker” was used in The New Yorker before 2008: fewer than 10 Number of…

…He tapped the reader-plate on the car door — we still called it the “driver door” because language is funny that way. Knight Rider, 1983. The car powered down with…

…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…

…site was called DCLeaks and it started publishing stolen documents just a few days before CrowdStrike went public, but it’s almost like no one noticed it right away. DCLeaks published…

…provides increased security through a lockable door. Second, it provides greater privacy through firmer and more opaque walls. Third, it provides improved communication with a mobile phone-charging station. And fourth,…

…each case the search engine is required to weigh the values of privacy and the public interest before accepting or rejecting a request. If Google’s in-house arbitrators do approve a…

…little bit: one of the questions we have for you has to do with your experience in journalism, doing this kind of work. Do you see interesting new challenges that…

…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…

…authority distributed, before military doctrine or legal analysis could solidify.[3] Glimpsed even through the fog of classification, documents from the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence agencies teem with discomfort,…

…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…

…done. Cheese doesn’t always travel well. The job of the monger has always been to receive the cheese, assess it, and decide what they’re going to do with it to…

…and violence in the pursuit of justice and democracy cannot succeed if they do not communicate securely, or if they cannot remain safe online. Security must become a fundamental right…

…the FBI announce when a presidential candidate is under investigation days before an election? How do we make sense of the practices of strategic leaking that are endemic to Beltway…

…wound care moved into the domain of self-treatment, a selling point that eventually convinced Dickson’s employer to begin marketing it the following year. After a slow start, the new bandage…

…begs the question: how can we expect companies to do the right thing and inform customers of breaches, if doing the right thing will cause them to lose money? And…

…distinction comes in part from correspondence analyses done on data from a number of statistical investigations. Its second axis, contrasting portions of class in terms of cultural capital and economic…

…that they wanted you to do what you can do to become your own organizer, to use the tools to organize locally in whatever way you wanted to. They set…

…plotted on map inserts, and each target was assigned a number. Then, information on each target—“all necessary detailed facts that will be needed later to make a target analysis”—was punched…

…launching an attack with a simple exploit programmed on cheap hardware” (Cerrudo 2014). Cerrudo’s findings are also relevant to the kinds of political decisions that might be made in response…

The birds of Poyang Lake, do you know their number? Flying they obscure the sun and moon Alighting the lake-grasses are concealed.[1] The Poyang Lake in southern China is renowned…

…When my phone collects my GPS data when I run, where does the data go, and what group of people are making the decision that my data will trigger another…

…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…

…addresses in the ledger, which represent bitcoin ownership; bitcoins don’t exist apart from their attachment to an address. Think of it as an archive that has rich and meticulous documentation…

…him right back: broadcasting Turner’s home phone number, previous places of residence, and criminal records. As the doxing feud escalated, online allegations swirled that Turner was an FBI mole, sleuthing…

…to actually do something against crime. One classic way to do this is to downgrade complaints. For example, someone comes in the police headquarter and reports a rape. The problem…