Lucy Teitler
When Dating Is Literally a Game You Just Can't Win
When I first encountered the video game "Escape From Fuck Zone," I thought, Aha! A romantic world that might satisfactorily be gamed.
Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools
Michael Ossmann and a merry band of hackers are rebuilding the NSA's most secret weapons—for science.
Out of 'Necessity,' a Dozen Will Face Jail Over Wall St. Climate Protest
“The harm being caused by Wall Street is so much greater than any harm done when people were sitting down on Broadway and Wall St,” said one protester.
Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant: Three Documentaries On Information Freedom
Three recent films—‘The Hacker Wars,’ ‘Silenced’ and ‘Citizenfour’—take wildly differing approaches to documenting truth-tellers.
At Time Capsule Party, Teens Vied with Dead Bankers For a Piece of History
When a forgotten time capsule buried by a group of Wall St. bankers in 1914 was finally opened on Wednesday, it was also a good time to bury another one.
At Facebook's Hacker Party, Can't We All Just Be Friends?
At a Vegas pool party, checking in on Facebook's relationship with the hacker set (it's complicated).
How To Not Get Hacked at the World's Preeminent Hacker Conference
At the Las Vegas hacker convention Defcon, any old bachelor party could become collateral damage.
What I Learned from Edward Snowden at the Hacker Conference
Whatever Snowden’s origins and affiliations, he was not coming to his audience as a peer. He was coming as a prophet, and the gospel was liberty and anonymity and privacy and security.
On the First Day of HOPE, Plenty to Fear
Reality checks from mysterious individuals and paranoia from very public ones at the Hackers on Planet Earth conference.