The barbarians aren't at the gates. They're inside. Thi…
The Definitive Story of “Information Wants To Be Free”
The most famous phrase in “Hackers” wasn’t in the book.
Hacker News: Honest Edition
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as m…
Hacker, Hack Thyself
We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default, even if there
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
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers'
We asked a bunch of hackers why they love the over-the-top, cult 90s movie 'Hackers.'
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Nor…
Packed with insider information based on interviews, de…
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
The site, called OnlyFake, threatens to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering, and has implications for cybersecurity writ large.
Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left
A far-right hacker posts in tandem with DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, about hacks against the left.
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.
