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Online dating: gamification, addiction, and the morale economy - Negative PID Dating platforms present themselves as tools for connection. In practice, many of them function more like interactive systems designed to maximize engagement,

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Monitoring illegal fishing with OSINT - Negative PID In 2017, Ecuadorian authorities seized a refrigerated cargo vessel in the protected waters of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

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Behind Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam - Negative PID Launched in 2013, Patreon introduced a model that allowed creators to earn recurring income directly from their audiences, bypassing traditional gatekeepers

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From shadows to leadership: women shaping cybersecurity - Negative PID The story of hacking is often told as a tale of lone male geniuses in dark rooms, fingers flying over flashy keyboards. But women have been present from the

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Crypto anarchists and the cypherpunk movement - Negative PID What if power could be removed from institutions and redistributed through mathematics? Crypto anarchists, sometimes referred to as cypherpunks, believe that

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A strategy for open-source crypto investigations - Negative PID Are open-source crypto investigations possible? The narrative around cryptocurrency investigations often assumes that meaningful tracing requires expensive,

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Transhumanists: the dream of upgrading humans - Negative PID For most of human history, limitations have defined existence. Bodies age, memory fades, intelligence varies, and death remains unavoidable. Transhumanists

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Online dating: the data you didn’t know you shared - Negative PID Dating platforms are often framed as spaces of personal expression. Profiles, photos, interests, preferences, all voluntarily shared. What remains less

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How the Internet reshaped crime - Negative PID The defining characteristic of cybercrime is that the criminal activity rests upon Internet-connected technology. The Internet is, after all, a set of

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The role of data in AI - Negative PID If machine learning is the engine behind artificial intelligence, then data is the fuel. No matter how advanced an algorithm may be, its performance is

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The Internet’s hidden libraries and archives - Negative PID Most people only skim the Internet's surface. What they don't know is that beyond search engines, social media platforms, and algorithm-driven feeds lies a

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Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams - Negative PID Everybody knows what a scam is. But very few can recognize one when is directed at them. Why is that? The Internet has made it more difficult to understand

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Digital addiction: when devices take over - Negative PID For many people, digital devices are no longer just tools. They are constant companions, sources of entertainment, communication hubs, and workspaces combined

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The Melissa Virus - Negative PID Phishing emails are among the most effective ways to hack into people's accounts. But when did it all start? The history of hacking through emails began in

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Who is building quantum computers and why? - Negative PID Quantum computing sits at the intersection of national security, economic competition, and scientific ambition. Governments fund it as a strategic capability.

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The most exclusive online communities - Negative PID Some parts of the Internet are not accessible to anybody. The most exclusive online communities hide beyond public forums, social media platforms, and

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Kevin Mitnick, the ghost in the wires - Negative PID Kevin Mitnick is one of the most well-known figures in the history of hacking and cybersecurity. His life story reads like a cyber-thriller, and he influenced

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Organized cybercrime: the Ransomware cartels - Negative PID Among all cybercrime activities, ransomware stands out as one of the most profitable and structurally advanced. What began as relatively simple extortion

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Fraud supply chains: roles and hierarchies - Negative PID Scams are often described as isolated acts carried out by individuals. In reality, many modern fraud operations function more like structured organizations,

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Online communities: support or stress? - Negative PID Online communities have become one of the defining features of the digital world. From forums and group chats to large-scale social platforms, people gather

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Trust without institutions: crypto and blockchain - Negative PID For most of modern history, trust in financial systems has been mediated by institutions. Banks verify transactions, governments issue currency, and

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Ethics and politics of quantum computing - Negative PID Quantum computing is often framed as a technical milestone, a new class of machine that may or may not outperform classical systems. But if quantum computing

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Internet subcultures: Scambaiters - Negative PID Scambaiters are individuals or groups who engage directly with online scammers, pretending to be potential victims in order to waste their time, gather

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Bram Cohen and BitTorrent - Negative PID As the Internet grew in the late 1990s and early 2000s, distributing large files became a serious technical and economic problem. Centralised servers

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Organized cybercrime: the global fraud factories - Negative PID While ransomware dominates headlines, a quieter and equally industrialized form of cybercrime operates at massive scale, the global scam economy. These are

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Postel, Crocker, and RFC - Negative PID Who decides what protocols and technologies are used on the Internet? Who enforces the standards and the infrastructure required to make it work? Jon Postel

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Online dating: the data you didn’t know you shared - Negative PID Dating platforms are often framed as spaces of personal expression. Profiles, photos, interests, preferences, all voluntarily shared. What remains less

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