Reimagining Democracy

Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy. The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a "what we need to do today" perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective. My remit ...

Facebook and Twitter Want to Keep the Justice System Skewed Against Defendants

Their CEOs have pledged support for reform amid the George Floyd protests—while their lawyers are fighting to preserve law enforcement’s advantage in court...

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested by Japanese Police

Remember Mt.Gox? Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange… ...then in early 2014, Tokyo-based Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy saying it lost some 8,50,000 Bitcoins worth $64 Million to hackers and suddenly went dark with no explanation. Last Friday, Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of...

Anonymous Hackers target website of Russian court that sentenced Pussy Riot

The website of the Moscow district court that sentenced three members of the band Pussy Riot to jail has been attacked by hackers posting anti-Putin messages. As well as the anti-Putin slogan Anonymous Russia posted an appeal for the band's release as well as a video clip of one of the band's...

Interview with Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day )

Interview with Team Inj3ct0r 1337day Inj3ct0r provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and...