Hacking Capitalism | A Guide To Exploiting The Tech Industry
This is an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. Particularly this book will model computers, humans, and money and their subsequent relationships. Understand the alarming state of the tech industry for better or for worse.
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
Hacker News: Honest Edition
Mitigating LLM-based p-Hacking by Preregistering for the Next LLM
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate, classify, and annotate data whose outputs feed downstream hypothesis tests. However, LLM-based research is easy to p-hack: a researcher can tune the prompts, decoding parameters, or output format until a desired result is reached. We propose a protocol to mitigate p-hacking in LLM-based research: preregistering the experiment and eligible models, and then running it on the first eligible LLM that is released after the preregistration. The researcher finalizes the procedure on current models, preregisters the analysis plan together with a set of eligible future models, and runs the confirmatory analysis on the first eligible model released afterward. Because this model does not exist at commitment time, it cannot be hacked against; furthermore, configurations that hack one model frequently do not transfer to the next. We evaluate the protocol on two tasks whose true values are known. Across 20 models from four providers and 11 LLM-analysis configurations, the protocol would have blocked successful transfer of the p-hack in 73.9% and 72.7% of cases in the two tasks. Additional analyses reveal that mitigation remains substantial under several stress tests. Finally, putting money where our mouth is, we followed our own protocol and preregistered our experiment. The preregistered experiment confirmed the protocol's effectiveness: out of the 7 configurations that hacked the prior model, the hacking failed to carry over in 6 configurations on the first eligible model released afterward.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Hacking the Hackathon
At their best, internal hackathons provide a necessary patch to systemic problems. But their usual structure limits their potential.
CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse | The Mozilla Blog
As much as the Web continues to inspire us, we know that sites put up with an awful lot of abuse in order to stay online. Denial of service attacks, fraud
“Paging Dr. Fraud”: The Fake Publishers That Are Ruining Science
For years, spurious journals have proliferated online, promising academic credibility in exchange for cash.
Why “Trusted Publishing” Can’t Save Us from Social Engineering
Unmasking the risky illusion of npm's "trusted publishing" amidst recent cyber attacks.
Hackbase - HackerspaceWiki
A Hackbase or Hackerbase is a Live-in Hackerspace - a hackerspace with a capacity for coliving.
HACKING – A Hacker Manifesto
The apologists for the vectoral interest want to limit the se- mantic productivity of the term “hacker” to a mere crimi- nality, precisely because they fear its more abstract and multiple potential—its class potential. Everywhere one hears rumors of the hacker as the new form of juvenile delinquent, or nihilist vandal, or servant of organized crime. Or, the hacker is presented as a mere harmless subculture, an obsessive garage pursuit with its restrictive styles of appear- ance and codes of conduct. Everywhere the desire to open the virtuality of information, to share data as a gift, to ap- propriate the vector for expression is represented as the object of a moral panic, an excuse for surveillance, and the re- striction of technical knowledge to the “proper authorities.” This is not the first time that the productive classes have faced this ideological blackmail. The hacker now appears in the official organs of the ruling order alongside its earlier ar- chetypes, the organized worker, the rebellious farmer. The hacker is in excellent company
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
A collection of reading and resources around patterns of operations online intended to disrupt networks, scam users, and otherwise affect the health of society and social media Should focus on theory and practice but not tools
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Disrupting Dark Networks
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains
↳ Slopaganda: The Inauthentic YouTube Network Selling Secession to Albertans — Canadian Digital Media Research Network
