Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truthβand a sharp sense of its limitsβin Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real ownersβ hands.
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."
βThis eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the utter dysfunction that had become American life.β An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
βThe people are in the streets. We canβt ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.β An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
βYouβd have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. Youβd have the mind of God.β An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
βIf molecules really were the new microchips, the promise of remote gene editing was that the body could be manipulated to upgrade itself.β An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrongβand set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internetβthen went to work for the FBI.
When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and anotherβand the story turned inside out.
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