Vigilante

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‘I asked myself this very question after a family member was affected by dementia. In her later years, the only person my grandmother still remembered was her husband – but he had passed away several years earlier. She asked about him every morning and finding out that he had die ... Show More

Aleks Krotoski explores a story which sought to be forgotten, but wasn't. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), was published in 1992. It was a book designed to decay from its very first use. It was an unusual conceit, and played into our fears about malfunctioning technology ahead of th ... Show More

Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet? The Internet is the world's most widely used communications tool. It's a fast and efficient way of delivering information. However it is also quite dumb, neutral, treating equally all the data it passes around the world. From data tha ... Show More

“A superhero is who he is when the problem happens”. You are a superhero! Connect with me on IG @iamlatricerainer 🫶🏾 

When most people hear the word "vigilante," they think about heroes like Batman or Robin Hood. You wouldn't normally think of a vigilante as someone spending their free nights at their computer opening a cold case from 1957. Brittany and Sarah spend this week deep diving into the ... Show More

With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and computer hobbyists. Already prior to the web, the burgeoning internet user groups and chatrooms had tested what was acceptable behaviour onlin ... Show More

The emergence of data-driven mass surveillance "is threatening to turn privacy into a relic of the 20th century," says the anonymous YouTube creator known as Ordinary Things. Meanwhile, state-funded troll farms are spreading disinformation and curating chaos on platforms meant to ... Show More

Much like Aaron Swartz did, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer fought against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law both men belived to be dangerous and unjust. But unlike Swartz, the internet's own boy, weev is an unapologetic troll who spread bile and chaos wherever he goes, a man who ... Show More

The future of technology creates many risks as we become more and more dependent on it. Now more than ever we need more minds working towards protecting ourselves from cybercrime. Reformed Hacker Bastien Treptel and Chief Cyber Risk Officer Fergus Brooks talk with Karissa Breen f ... Show More

<p>Helen Warrell, the FT’s defence and security editor, talks to cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch about the SolarWinds and Microsoft hacks. How extensive was the damage inflicted and how should the west respond to such attacks?</p><p><em>Clips: CBS, CNN, NBC</em></p><br><p ... Show More