…archive of biometric governance that would identify all Indians: voluntarily for UIDAI, and by law for NPR. Each was building an archive to digitize traces of all persons in India,…

…improve human health, standard of living, and forest resources. Stoves can be both gifts and goods. As with solar lights and other technologies made for socially distant others, improved cookstoves…

…hacker certifications in the early new millennium. As governments and corporations moved their operations online, demand for “ethical hackers” rose sharply, as did demand for means of demonstrating their trustworthiness….

…cold” seems a hallmark of grand civilization. The Chinese, Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans all stored snow and ice under insolation for use in cooling drinks and medicines. In southern Europe…

…the code to copy itself and spread. On the other hand, his conviction for Fraud and Abuse clearly sends a different message—that this was a criminal act, and as the…

…or navigate between them. Where then, does the desire for totality come from? What forms of government, and what kinds of collectives demand totality—even if a Phyrric form—and what kinds…

…hackerly and Open Source approach to biological construction [is] one that trades on the equation of DNA to source code and then posits that such code must be editable and…

…are based on politics. And resources. And qualified personnel. And care. And steering. In short, they need to be continually produced. As such, bootstrapping can assume different scopes and directions….

…infiltrated systems for all sorts of reasons—for fun, learning, and showmanship—and in the process swiped data and documents but never released them. For decades, hackers have also acquired and published…

It was 1965: televisions were blaring, and Alan Lomax was worried. As Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, and Bewitched capered into tangerine family rooms, the famous American…

…of acquisition and release of the ClimateGate and Podesta email databases changed the way the databases could be thought about and thought with, foreclosing some avenues of interpretation, legitimization, and…

…research, the hoarding of exploits and vulnerabilities, the use of those tools by law enforcement and spy agencies, and ultimately citizens’ right to privacy online. The rest of this piece…

…described as “including applicants’ financial histories and investment records, children’s and relatives’ names, foreign trips taken and contacts with foreign nationals, past residences, and names of neighbors and close friends…

…always kept the wireless jailbreaker and the stick separate — plausible deniability. The jailbreaker had legit uses, and wasn’t, in and of itself, illegal. I plugged the USB in and…

…is the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], and its recent rules around securing medical devices for manufacturers and vendors who create medical devices. It’s so remarkable to think that…

…the distinctive features of each country’s culture and ideals with view to promoting within each nation sympathy and respect for the ideals and aspirations of the others, and a just…

…security of control systems are degradation, failure, and accident; second, human users; and finally—and least likely and damaging of all—intrusion or “attack.” And many attacks are really exploiting human beings…