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- March 18th, 2025 - (Posted in Cyber politics)
Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the U.S. government in preventing access to “strong enough” cryptography for foreign nationals and states were numerous from 1990 onward. Dubbed...

Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT

- July 7th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie In this exciting story, we will catapult ourselves back to 1958 to MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club and meet Steve Russel, Steve was one...

  

LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again

- July 6th, 2022

LockBit is a major player in the ransomware scene and has contributed heavily for this cyber-crime model to become one of the most popular and imitated in the threats landscape....

  

The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community

- June 28th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie Hacker culture was brought to life thanks to computer scientist Richard Greenblatt and mathematician Bill Gosper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It...

  

Hacking is a Journey, not a Destination

- June 16th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 20/07/2020Translator: Tara Lie In this brief article, I will discuss a piece of hacking history: where it all began. Precisely, hacking started in 1958 on...

  

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