…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…

…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…

…data-sets from the other big automotive and logistics companies, right down to the driver-data collected from people who wore court-ordered monitors: paroled felons, abusive parents under restraining orders, government employees….

…to such threats. He argues, “if a vulnerable device is compromised, it’s really, really difficult and really, really costly to detect it” (Cerrudo 2014). This means that there could “already…

…a geopolitical standpoint, if you will. All signs point to Russia. So, this was a nation-state hacking a legitimate target from the point of view of their interests, and from…

…often from cell phone signals, too; devices that were not as portable as expected, with godmothers carrying their phones in their hands, an obstacle that some have overcome by crafting…

…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…

…refine, test, and iterate the idea, eventually leading to a commitment from the UN Refugee Agency to purchase a large number of units. As I learned more about the project,…

…once bought them new do not want to keep them around. II. I am far from Guatemala, at a meeting on global health metrics and evaluation held in downtown Seattle,…

…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…

…of the DNC hack. And it was true that some of the data hadn’t come from them. It had come from someone else. CK: Do you find that—do you think…

…the tactic: the acquisition of digital documents from the voting machine company Diebold; and the publication of emails from the now-defunct energy giant Enron. Even if these materials were not…

…who in the public would care about an activist from the Middle East, unknown to most, being compromised by a crappy trojan (Wikipedia 2017d) bought from some dodgy website for…

…make good money from desperate people. It also marked the final step of something remarkable, read from beginning to end as a linked series of software components: the extortion stack….

…they are the defining features of our infrastructural present. One contemporary tendency that diverges from this account is the remarkable dynamism of state-led infrastructure development, as is evident from the…

…20 gigabytes in size, and not just from transactions. * The lottery expands, writes Borges, from merely contributing to the vicissitudes of human life to apportioning power: “I have been…

From: lcplvaughn2_8 Sgt. Linley, Not sure you remember me but I served with you back in the late 80’s early 90’s…2/8…Comm platoon. I want you to know that a lot…

…A crazy farm scenario Back from collecting air, and also water and soil samples, I sit down at the table with Fabrice from the Environment Department, to study a map…

…quantity of water it could provide. That quantity is calculated through an extraction rate, a number that defines the volume of water that can be extracted from an aquifer per…

…human computers. To save the time and expense of hiring and managing large numbers of temporary workers, Amazon engineers instead developed a website through which people could work simultaneously from…

…from the usual years to months, preparations have begun for large-scale studies in Ebola-affected countries to begin in January 2015. While logistical questions remain—ranging from the number of doses needed…

…decades of progress. Led by the Social Protection Unit at the World Bank shortly after its creation in 1996, a number of aid agencies began to move away from static…

…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…

…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…

…from a given investment (an increase from A to B in fig. 1) than by the larger, established businesses served by traditional banks. The gain in profit for entrepreneurs that…

…from computer hacking, and provide two main explanations. First, these borrowings reflect a further step in the diffusion of metaphors, models, and machines from the computer sciences into the life…

…consulted in the Delphi Process included 24 participants from technical agencies and researchers (all but one based in the northern hemisphere); seven participants from funding organisations; five participants from supranational…