Articles by Cory Doctorow
The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble · Jan. 13, 2020 - A Wechat-based "mobile court" presided over by a chatbot has handled 3m legal procedures since March · Dec. 12, 2019
- Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard...and then join it · Dec. 11, 2019
- When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener · Oct. 23, 2019
- Talking corruption, technology, empiricism and fairness with the Bitcoin Podcast · Oct. 21, 2019
- Zuckerberg: President Warren would "suck" for Facebook · Oct. 1, 2019
- Science fiction and the law: beyond mere courtroom drama · Aug. 7, 2019
- Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors · Jun. 30, 2019
- Report: UK "Ransomware consultants" Red Mosquito promise to unlock your data, but they're just paying off the criminals (and charging you a markup!) · Jun. 24, 2019
- Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises · Jun. 18, 2019
- Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders · Jun. 10, 2019
- Notorious forum for account-thieves hacked, login and messages stolen and dumped · May. 20, 2019
- Grifty "information security" companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms · May. 16, 2019
- Luna: Moon Rising, in which Ian McDonald brings the trilogy to an astounding, intricate, exciting and satisfying climax · May. 16, 2019
- DOJ accuses Verizon and AT&T employees of participating in SIM-swap identity theft crimes · May. 14, 2019
- Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America · Apr. 29, 2019
- Foxconn's inconsistent, chaotic behavior in Wisconsin looks awfully grifty · Apr. 10, 2019
- Study finds 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake, designed to lure in ICOs · Mar. 28, 2019
- Bowing to public pressure, Coinbase announces it will "transition out" the ex-Hacking Team cybermercenaries whose company it just bought · Mar. 5, 2019
- Coinbase bought a company founded by disgraced cybermercenaries from Hacking Team, and now Coinbase users are trying unsuccessfully to delete their accounts · Mar. 2, 2019
- Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' Youtube accounts, offer to lift them in exchange for Bitcoin · Jan. 30, 2019
- Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops · Jan. 14, 2019
- Big Data's "theory-free" analysis is a statistical malpractice · Jan. 11, 2019
- Survey of the 2019 security landscape reveals some surprising bright spots · Jan. 10, 2019
- What it's like to be a woman reporter on a cryptocurrency cruise where nearly all the other women are sex-workers · Dec. 5, 2018
- Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power · Nov. 26, 2018
- "The End of Trust" - EFF/McSweeney's collaboration on privacy and surveillance - is in stores and free to download now! · Nov. 20, 2018
- GPU-accelerated dismemberment demo: 10,000 zombies in a giant blender · Nov. 17, 2018
- A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure · Nov. 16, 2018
- Trump's Acting Attorney General was an active participant in a scam company that marketed "masculine toilets" · Nov. 14, 2018
- Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team · Nov. 12, 2018
- My keynote for Ethereum Devcon: without the rule of law, crypto fails · Nov. 6, 2018
- Incoherence, multiplied: Sony announces nebulous "blockchain for DRM" · Oct. 17, 2018
- French spy used darknet to sell access to national mass-surveillance databases · Oct. 8, 2018
- Sex workers pioneered the internet, and now the internet has rejected them · Oct. 3, 2018
- EFF and McSweeney's collaborated on a publication: "The End of Trust" · Oct. 2, 2018
- Anatomy of a Reddit cryptocurrency spam-factory · Sep. 17, 2018
- The Democratic Party is surging thanks to leftist policies, but its leadership are convinced they have to stop it · Aug. 24, 2018
- Interview with a cryptocurrency scammer · Aug. 12, 2018
- Fraudsters offers thousands to low-waged telco employees for help with SIM Swap scams · Aug. 3, 2018
- Porn blackmailers supercharge their scam with password dumps, make bank · Jul. 19, 2018
- A hard look at the wastefulness of "proof of work," the idea at the core of the blockchain · May. 23, 2018
- People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain · Mar. 19, 2018
- To do at SXSW: Cypherpunks Strike Back! and Cyborg Pride Parade · Mar. 6, 2018
- Excellent explainer: how consensus algorithms (including Bitcoin/blockchain) work · Feb. 15, 2018
- The true and complete story of Bitcoin · Feb. 5, 2018
- Your early darknet drug buys are preserved forever in the blockchain, waiting to be connected to your real identity · Jan. 26, 2018
- Bitcoin's high valuation has ruined it as a medium of exchange · Jan. 23, 2018
- Financial consultancy says that Bitcoin's value is speculative, and as a currency, it should be worth $810 · Jan. 12, 2018
- "Financial dominatrix" orders the rich men who submit to her to operate a "crypto slave farm" to mine bitcoin · Dec. 21, 2017
- How much energy does Bitcoin consume, and can it improve? · Dec. 6, 2017
- The crooked Secret Service agent who stole Silk Road bitcoins did it again after pleading guilty · Nov. 9, 2017
- Chinese government sources tell the WSJ they're about to shut down all domestic Bitcoin exchanges · Sep. 12, 2017
- A new, dubious "smart" cryptocurrency for prostitution · Aug. 6, 2017
- For sale: any Australian's full health record for a mere $22 · Jul. 5, 2017
- Anarchist bitcoin hacker flies to Syria to join a 4-million person anarchist collective the size of Massachusetts · Mar. 29, 2017
What's up at the W3C: further reading for Reply All listeners · Mar. 3, 2017 - More anti-money laundering measures hit China as top three Bitcoin exchanges freeze withdrawals · Feb. 16, 2017
- 98% of Bitcoin trading volume over the past six months was in Chinese Renminbi · Jan. 12, 2017
- 2600 Magazine offers $10K for Trump's tax return · Sep. 29, 2016
- Snowden explains the Shadow Brokers/Equation Group/NSA hack · Aug. 16, 2016
- Proof-of-concept ransomware for smart thermostats demoed at Defcon · Aug. 8, 2016
- Phishing for Bitcoin with fake 0-days · Jun. 27, 2016
- Projection: by 2020, Bitcoin transactions could consume as much power as Denmark · Mar. 31, 2016
- Free Bitcoin textbook from Princeton · Feb. 9, 2016
- Ransomware decryptor · Apr. 24, 2015
- Random Darknet Shopper: Internet art randomly spends $100/wk of Bitcoin in darknet · Nov. 11, 2014