…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;…

…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…

…the spatial organization of the firm directly into question. Previously, “the typical analysis would be: x tons of widgets must be shipped from A to B; what is the cheapest…

…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…

…“to make a pre-analysis” of the vulnerability of potential adversaries around the world, and to “carry that analysis to the point where the right bombs could be put on the…

…claims to an egalitarian developmental paradigm linked to a Buddhist-inflected state welfarism. But he also presided over crippling counterinsurgency campaigns in largely Christian highland areas, where his decision to make…

…in India” (Phadnis 2013:1). To undermine the U.S. intelligence machinery, it implied, was also to demonstrate technical mastery. These responses illustrate a tension within the CEH credential: it sought to…

…matter of knowing where to look for information, where to publish it, and ultimately how to use new and old media to unlock its potential. Poking around at the fetid…

…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…

…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…

…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 hold onto the talent that they had. And that’s not going to change. They’re not going to be able to pay the salaries that the private industry can pay….

…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…

…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…

…a series of discussions and debates that took place over the course of the 1950s among lawmakers, bureaucrats, military planners and technical consultants about how to plan for thermonuclear war….

…steered toward computer vision for weapons; ones interested in robots are directed into military drone research; others interested in environment or green energy are funneled into the interesting sounding MIT…

…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…

…HACCP, to ensure food hygiene, constituting a de facto microbiological bunker from which operations can be directed at minimal risk to foreign teams. Ebola too has its Yalta. Figure 3….

…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)…

…story selected with other stories that could be told, it does not aspire to totality. It is not a proxy for something else. Whereas the speaker aspires to create a…