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Editor’s note: This is an op-ed that our very own Tricia Wang wrote, which also appeared on Al Jazeera.
In the last week, thousands of people have signed a petition on Whitehouse.gov titled, “People who…
Continue readingThe myopia of excluding censors: A self-defeating White House petition
Up until now, Wicked Rose has been infamous for one thing, being a prolific hacker. He exploited Microsoft Office security holes in the US Defense Department and obtained sensitive data for over two years before being discovered.
But it appears that Wiked Rose is exploring a new career path.
Investigative reporter, …
Continue readingAn infamous Chinese hacker becomes a “security professional”?
Walkathons are boring, wankathons are not. Who wants to watch people walk when you can watch people masturbate? The first Masturbation Contest for World’s Aid Day took place in Shenzhen. The Shanghaiist has a set of wonderful pictures of men without pants, floppy dildos, dolls with orfices to stick fingers or penises into, and personal cum buckets. (Shanghaiist’s removed the…
Finally we get some sense of history to hackerspaces outside of the West from Silvia Lintner and David Li in their latest co-authored article in Interactions, Created in China.
In September 2010, China’s first hackerspace opened its doors in Shanghai under the name XinCheJian (literal translation: new workshop, or new factory). Only a year…
Continue readingWhere are all the creative Chinese people? hanging out in hacker spaces apparently
