Pluralistic: How the world's leading breach expert got phished (05 Apr 2025)

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How the world's leading breach expert got phished: A cautionary tale for all of us.
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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit: Forcing you to pay Turbotax to send data to the IRS that it already has is the DEFINITION of government inefficiency.
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Billionaire-proofing the internet: Scolding people for choosing popular services is no way to build a popular movement.
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5): Now we're just haggling over the price.
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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.
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Occupy the Democratic National Committee: A deliberately weak institution that has failed us again and again.
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2): Meet the women of Computing Freedom.
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Chapter One of "Picks and Shovels" (Part 1): My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley's greatest forensic accountant.
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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier: $2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
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