…we talked all the time, every night, and now I don’t have a phone, and I’ve lost all those numbers. It’s terrible. I can’t stop crying about it. I had…

…of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962: a handful.5 Number of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962 who went on to become any Ivy League professor and famous…

…doxing is a low-tech form of hacking in which information is valuable resource to be exploited. Doxing is controversial because it has been used to humiliate, shame, and intimidate intended…

…It is, indeed, visually uninspiring, but this is because it is meant to be basic. Like much of IKEA’s product line, it is mass-produced, economical modernism. It is meant to…

…is implemented by the Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN), a national health research center. It is funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and supported by…

…called ISIL? ISIS? IS? What did Da’esh even mean? It had all been a big mess back when I was in kindergarten, and then it had settled down… Until now….

…undergone two successive and important revolutions revolving around the very statistical and information technologies it depends on. Almost immediately after being elected, Rudolph Giuliani recruited William Bratton, who put into…

…security capabilities remain undeployed by—or inaccessible to—their users. In one 2009 incident very important in thinking about such IoT-enabled hacking, Shi’ite insurgent forces in Iraq hacked U.S. military surveillance drones,…

…and custom-built servers in backyard sheds and basements; now it is kept in massive installations in cold regions of the world with inexpensive electricity and high-bandwidth Internet connections. It’s nearly…

…audience that inequality is meaningless until it is made into a calculable unit. But once it is made measurable, there is much she can do. Using this full map and…

…in national development agencies usually associated with the kinds of large-scale infrastructure mega-projects that these institutions pioneered after World War II. Yet the current emphasis on “little” development devices cannot…

…an Army General. Nor could international organizations augment American resources: “At all times the infectious disease unit at WHO is running on a shoestring,” said an international health official. As…

…strain to influenza viruses isolated around Poyang and the discovery of the virus in healthy wild birds at the lake. Beginning in 2008, a group of researchers, including both international…

…the incidence of other diseases (such as malaria) rises and interferes with the vaccine’s immunological response? Yet staggering the intervention into steps provides an opportunity to stop the trial if…

…that a technological intervention is also a political one is inscribed as a double meaning in his post’s title: “The Internet Enables Incubator Progress.” However, as in the previous example,…

…is no powerfully constructive technology that is not also powerfully destructive in another direction, just as there is no great idea that cannot be greatly perverted for great harm…. Indeed,…

…in the first place.[9] The modern virtue of corporate and governmental “transparency” is often interpreted as simply releasing data, lots of it, often in its rawest form. This is akin…

…we say: that body made of data is not me—I cannot be represented by a database no matter how total. And yet, I simply cannot function without it. The idea…

…for a number of articles in this issue. Leaving aside the question of whether these devices can, in fact, operate successfully without more traditional infrastructures somewhere in the background (the…

In winter of 2014, an inquiry from a journalist landed in my email inbox. His message opened innocently: “how can I can safely and effectively get plugged into the hacker…

…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…

…operations involved “actions taken to affect adversary information and information systems, while defending one’s own information and information systems” (CJCSI 3210.1A 1998). CNE was related to but was not in…

…Encyclopedia. Systemic risks in finance are made visible through inventories of financial institutions, with their interlocking liabilities. Portfolio risks in insurance are grasped through inventories of insured properties, models of…

…precise boundaries incomplete. If an aquifer is essentially movement, how can you establish its borders to pinpoint its function? Can you trace its edges as if it were a container?…

…is significantly cheaper than blood glucose monitoring, it has a very important role to play in settings where blood glucose monitoring is not accessible due to cost, or where blood…

…see the attempt to integrate ecological knowledge into the everyday operations of vital infrastructures. The Assessment of Entrainment Risk Wildlife biologists monitor the smelt population in relation to its historical…

…wildlife.” (Wingspread Declaration, 1991) In April 1970, Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully reported in Cancer the identification of six definitive cases of cell vaginal cancer in girls and young women…