…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…

…plausibility script to run. “Everything all right?” “We’re late for class is all.” Jose was the worst liar. It was 7:55, first bell wasn’t until 8:30 and we were less…

…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…

…French bakeries, etc. Now, these services are rendered by none other than those very lower and middle classes who were directly suffering from crime. If the middle class left, the…

…to understand why this shelter has generated so much interest since it was first announced in 2013. It has received funding from IKEA, a company that has shaped so much…

…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…

Noah, a corporate software developer, and I met at a German language class when we were both living in Hamburg. As the years went by, our friendship flourished through our…

…be turned into “development devices” amenable to abstraction and adaptation to other times and places? Could and should consumer and class-based desires be used to guide the making and marketing…

…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…

…infrastructure hacking. The Ukraine grid attacks of late 2015 were widely presented as “the first publicly acknowledged incidents to result in power outages” (Lee et al. 2016: 6), but is…

…of our community. For the most part—at least its most visible part—members of the security community/industry are enjoying six-figure salaries, luxurious suites in Las Vegas, business class traveling, and media…

…sociology of yore (upper-class, middle-class, lower-class). Correspondence analysis produced graphic representations structured along “factorial axes” created from data research tables (or matrices).[2] The first axis, taking into account a maximum…

…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…

…the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the web to perform complex computation” (Law & von Ahn, 2011: viii). The fruits of this research are familiar to anyone…

…happy families gathered around dining room tables, mothers at work in their modern kitchens. This is the first generation of housing built this way. In the older design, several families—or…

…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…

…farm only that morning through what he declared to be a series of chance discoveries. First, he had been impressed by the vast number of poultry farms around Poyang Lake:…

…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…

…feminist, race, environmental, and labor politics. #Neologisms, Analogies, and embodiment in socio-technological storytelling The composite neologism “biohacking” was first used by Michael Schrage in a minor article published in The…

…centuries), the collection’s sheer size has been guessed, estimated, and then, finally, counted in the early years of the twenty-first century.[1] The Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection in Cambridge University Library,…

…middle-class safety and hygiene was born: children would grow up receiving quick treatment for mishaps, in increasingly colorful forms. The Band-Aid fits neatly into the first-aid kit, a larger and…

…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…

…in assembling a collective cabinet of little curiosities. Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods Little: These devices are little in a number of senses. First, they are light, inexpensive, scalable, and portable;…

…of roaming through a nineteenth-century set of police reports on a political group (the National Union of the Working Classes) in the 1830s in England, as well as continue to…

…the same in France and in the US. First, new pressures created by the technique induced officers to game the numbers. It is sometimes easier to cheat the report than…

…world by sharing the secrets of a new science for understanding consumers — not as members of demographic groups, but as individuals. “The urge to poll and classify is intoxicating”…