…scratch (or “flex”) cards that people buy to top up their mobile phone airtime balances (Fig. 6). Matthew was one of the first to teach himself how to repair phones;…

…introduced by bureaucratization causes the agents of infrastructure to disappear into a world of regulation and adjudication. New China. Photo by Lain In the more extreme cases, however, people literally…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…authorities – to express their relation to animals in the language of viruses (Keck 2010). How do all these actors fit together into a “sentinel post”? How do they configure…

…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…

…sought to serve. He explained to representatives that banks “refuse to open their doors to the poor people who cannot provide collateral” and that “giving money to the poor is…

…compiled in order to meet three objectives at once: first, to produce facts; second, to act upon and transform these facts; third, to create a spectacle around them. It’s not…

…100-150 active implants to simultaneously managing thousands of implanted targets” (SID Today 2004a:2). According to Matthew Aid, NSA had built tools (and adopted easily available open source tools) for scanning…

…becoming a danger to factory SCADA systems in “friendly” countries, and also to prevent it from being repurposed by unfriendly ones. Stuxnet took years to plan, millions of dollars in…

…a deterministic way. We still have to consider how public infrastructures—and thus these material, spatial, and technical elements—result from collective decision-making arrangements. How is the power to plan, build, and…

…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)…

…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…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…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…

…partners have been quickly assembled to design and implement fast-track clinical trials; regulatory requirements have been streamlined; plans have been put forward to set up an indemnity fund to insure…

…policymakers and aid ministers were no longer able to point to a school or dam to show where the dollars had gone, at least (the theory went) they could point…

…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…

…the toilet is an unsuitable place to visit, use, let alone to hang around (Thieme 2010). IkoToilets are intended to provide a significant step-change in the quality of public toilets…

…menhaden. By 2006, that number had fallen to 27 percent, and the survival of osprey nestlings in Virginia had fallen to its lowest levels since the 1940s, when the insecticide…

…cooks and children to burn risks. Some models are so complex that villagers cannot fix them without specialized tools, resources, and knowledge. Most are too expensive for villagers to buy;…

…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…