The symbols of the web - Negative PID The online world is often described as abstract, virtual, immaterial. Yet our experience of it is structured through symbols. Tiny marks, icons, and glyphs

The symbols of the web

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Behind Gab: Andrew Torba - Negative PID Gab was launched in 2016 by Andrew Torba as an alternative to Twitter. It has since become one of the most controversial “alt-tech” networks.

Behind Gab: Andrew Torba

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Cryptography: from paper to silicon - Negative PID For most of its history, cryptography moved at the speed of ink, paper, and human calculation. Even mechanical devices such as rotor machines relied on

Cryptography: from paper to silicon

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The Mandela effect - Negative PID The Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon in which large groups of people share the same incorrect memory. The term was coined by paranormal researcher Fiona

The Mandela effect

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Internet subcultures: Doomers and Zoomers - Negative PID Younger internet users tend to fall into two archetypes: the Zoomer, shorthand for Generation Z, and the Doomer, a darker, more fatalistic subculture that

Internet subcultures: doomers and zoomers

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Chemtrails and eco-anxiety - Negative PID The chemtrail narrative sits at the intersection of environmental concern and institutional distrust. It proposes that the white trails left behind aircraft

Chemtrails and eco-anxiety

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Social media platforms made in Europe - Negative PID For over a decade, Europe has been a rule-setter rather than a platform-builder in the social media economy. The dominant infrastructures of online

Social media platforms made in Europe

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Diffie, Hellman, and PKC - Negative PID Before the 1970s, secure communication depended on shared secret keys. Two parties had to agree on a key in advance, and anyone intercepting the key could

Diffie, Hellman, and PKC

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Van Jacobson and congestion control - Negative PID When the modern Internet feels instant, it is easy to forget that its stability once hung by a thread. In the late 1980s, rapid growth in traffic caused

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Trust without identity: hashes and signatures - Negative PID When people think of cryptography, they often imagine secrecy. Encrypted messages, hidden conversations, locked files. But much of modern cryptography is not

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Behind Voat: Colo and Chastain - Negative PID When Reddit closed some of its most controversial communities, thousands of users migrated to Voat, a small platform built by Atif Colo and Justin Chastain.

Behind Voat: Colo and Chastain

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Rental scams: recognize the red flags - Negative PID It begins with a photograph—a sunlit apartment, polished floors, a balcony overlooking the city. The price seems reasonable, perhaps even generous. And yet,

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Oceania Open Source Communities - Negative PID Oceania, particularly Australia and New Zealand, has built open-source communities that punch well above their demographic weight. Through universities,

Oceania open source communities
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Protecting endangered species with OSINT - Negative PID OSINT investigations are becoming essential in tracking the online trade of endangered marine species using forum and e-commerce scraping.

Protecting endangered species with OSINT

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Celebrities playing online games - Negative PID A couple of decades ago, fans used to hunt for celebrities out of the popular clubs, event venues, or dumpster diving outside their homes. Today, it's much

Celebrities playing online games

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Behind Reddit: Ohanian and Huffman - Negative PID Reddit began as a small experiment created by two university friends. Over time it grew into one of the world’s most influential social platforms. The site is

Behind Reddit: Ohanian and Huffman
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QAnon: The Digital Cult - Negative PID On October 28, 2017, an anonymous poster nicknamed “Q Clearance Patriot” made a short, cryptic post on 4chan. It was the beginning of the QAnon digital cult.

QAnon: the digital cult
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Vaccines, autism, and microchips - Negative PID Few conspiracy theories have caused as much measurable harm as those surrounding vaccines. Unlike abstract beliefs about cosmology or demographics,

Vaccines, autism, and microchips

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The future of Open Source - Negative PID Open source began as a philosophy of freedom. It matured into a development methodology. Today, it sits at the centre of geopolitical tension, corporate

The future of Open Source #negativepid

Corporate red flags: the invisible risks of partnerships - Negative PID Investing in a startup or engaging with a partner company can feel straightforward on paper: registered, operational, with an online presence. Yet digital

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The most mysterious song on the Internet - Negative PID The most mysterious song on the Internet has kept people investigating its attribution for more than 40 years. It has finally been solved with OSINT techniques.

The most mysterious song on the Internet

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Quantum gates and circuits - Negative PID Quantum computing often sounds abstract until one asks a practical question. How do you actually tell a quantum computer what to do? The answer looks

Quantum gates and circuits
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Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, and TCP IP - Negative PID When the first packet switching networks appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were isolated systems with their own rules and interfaces. Connecting

Vint Cerf, Bob Khan, and TCP IP
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Kevin Mitnick, the ghost in the wires - Negative PID Kevin Mitnick is one of the most well-known figures in the history of hacking and cybersecurity. His life story reads like a cyber-thriller.

Kevin Mitnick, the ghost in the wires

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Learning Link Analysis with TXLEAN

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Learning link analysis with TXLEAN - Negative PID We attended a training session on link analysis with TXLEAN – the Texas Law Enforcement Agency Network. Here's our take on it.

Learning Link Analysis with TXLEAN

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Sabu, the man who brought down Anonymous - Negative PID He was nothing more than an unemployed systems administrator from the Lower East Side of NY, raising two young nieces on his own. Online, he was known as Sabu.

Sabu, the man who brought down Anonymous

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The Lake City Quiet Pills Enigma - Negative PID "Lake City Quiet Pills" is a well-known and complex internet mystery originating around 2009. It revolves around a series of cryptic messages found on an

The Lake City Quiet Pills enigma

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Types of online scams - Negative PID Scams rarely follow a single script. What appears to be an isolated fraud attempt is usually part of a broader ecosystem of techniques that have evolved over

Types of online scams #negativepid

Debunking ten digital myths - Negative PID Let’s explore a few playful digital myths. Many of these stories float around social media or get shared during office chats.

Debunking Ten Digital Myths
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