Tag: Tech
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On the Trail of the Robocall King | Wired
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.
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Secrets of the Little Blue Box | Esquire
A story so incredible it may even make you feel sorry for the phone company I am in the expensively furnished living room of Al Gilbertson*, the creator of the “blue box.” Gilbertson is holding one of his shiny black-and-silver “blue boxes” comfortably in the palm of his hand, pointing out the thirteen little red…
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Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation | Wired
In northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.
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‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’ | Wired
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan. ON A BRISK day in March 2016, Stephen Allwine walked into a Wendy’s in Minneapolis. The smell of old fryer grease hung in the air as he searched for a man wearing…
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A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect | Wired
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.
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The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder | Wired
Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.