…Here, I explore how dumpster diving developed as a technique for information retrieval used in court cases, lawsuits, and exposés long before doxing was even possible. What new potential does…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…Its DesignKit website (www.designkit.org) provides popular online courses, field guides, and case studies. Through these free resources and articles in leading magazines such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review, IDEO…

…systems to do the deciding for us. In 1995, arbiters of the distinction between rational and irrational risk perception criticized manipulation of essential human subjectivity by nefarious outside forces. Gladwell,…

…uncovering disparities in earnings by gender and race. What was already known was made explicit, with exact financial figures suddenly made available. While the US government blamed the North Korean…

…grounded set of technologies and practices that have reduced the advantages that large-scale enterprises like companies or governments had in developing technologies. On the first point, technical superiority, I was…

…[1] “Tor is a low-latency anonymity-preserving network that enables its users to protect their privacy online” and enables “anonymous communication” (AlSabah et al., 2012: 73). The Tor p2p network is…

…that tastes and preferences within this group also cut across those conventional lines. Unhindered by externally imposed categories, these individuals are free to follow their own preferences, facilitated by the…

…describes how his colleagues “didn’t have to generate desire very often. We had to capture and empower interest and desire… We made intelligent decisions that kept it growing but I…

…Much work goes also into keeping a rich online archive with audio-visual and textual registers of all activities held at MLP, so that people who could not make it to…

…Cities Challenge initiatives took the potential of ICT infrastructure to connect city to citizen in original, often untested ways. These initiatives proposed harnessing ICT’s potential to address a “matter of…

…novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. In the book, two children post political essays anonymously to a global communication system under the pseudonyms Demosthen*]}*es and Locke, winning over policy…

…been living with and adapting to geological hazards and climatological exposures: repairing homes, trails, and other local infrastructures as needed in response to landslides, avalanches, earthquakes, and storms. They have…

…of pressing environmental health issues? Public Laboratory, a non-profit dedicated to the open source development of DIY tools for environmental investigation, believes we must become investigators of our own environments….

…on one section of the lake. Over the last three decades, however, small and medium-scale poultry farming rapidly expanded in the lake region. When fears of a global influenza pandemic…

…that promotes this kind of telescoping. On the one hand, the technology allows casinos to anticipate the tastes of predefined cultural, ethnic, and demographic groups; game screen font sizes, for…

…not just by the United States, but by every country wealthy enough to do so—credible defenses either lag, or remain inaccessible, generally only available to corporations with deep enough pockets….

…from real-life figures like Len Sassaman (a privacy advocate and systems engineer who tragically committed suicide in 2011) and fictional representations like Elliot Alderson, the anxiety-afflicted main character in the…

…describes in this issue. Not all corporate software developers are powerful technological agents. Many also work with constraints and even through states of ignorance (because developers often don’t know what’s…

In the summer of 2014, Wikipedia created a public list of pages that have been partly hidden from search engines for privacy reasons (Wikimedia Foundation 2015). It includes entries on…

…paired with the massive, even exhaustive, corpus of the traces we all leave. We might, then, pursue the question of the algorithm’s politics further. The Trends algorithm does have criteria…

…countries. “Hacking Goes Legit” Paradoxically, the international spread of the credential resulted from the intensely local nature of training. Although some companies did begin offering online training—for example a “midnight…

…decisions about energy production shape the grid. For example, planning the infrastructural grid involves assumptions about desirable degrees of centralization or decentralization in energy generation. Infrastructures determine how sites of…

…traffic to spike when there’s a law-enforcement override because everything tries to snapshot itself for forensics. So the cameras are down inside. Give. Me. The. USB.” Jose’s hand shook. I…

…young, entertaining hackers that haven’t been caught yet. But the ones I care about, the ones I think are important, aren’t interested in making money off your bad infosec. They’re…

…far more encompassing definition that suggested the distinctiveness of information warfare and, in many cases, the radical disruption of traditional kinetic warfare. The first known official Department of Defense definition…

…understood as social and material assemblages that include more than the discrete handset, were taken up in ways that exposed the premises of a robust moral economy: what companies, consumers…

…many jurisdictions, there is often barely any scrutiny of procurement by local government and other subnational agencies and authorities for any reason, let alone a detailed technical or security assessment….