Where's Ferris Bueller? The Illuminati Bash That Never Was and the Origins of Internet Conspiracy Politics

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Where’s Ferris Bueller? The Illuminati Bash That Never Was and the Origins of Internet Conspiracy Politics

CAIRO, EGYPT – "Dear Ed," began the short note addressed to a fellow Yale graduate from the suburbs of Chicago....

January 11, 2023

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Galactic Cyber Citizens and the Theater of the Oppressed – Hacktivism and Bitcoin’s Political Destiny

FORT MEADE, MARYLAND – Suspicions of an intelligence agency's involvement did not deter people like Lazlo Hanyecz and other early...

by Raul Diego

January 11, 2023

Codeless

Beelzebub’s ProtegE – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's...

by Raul Diego

February 22, 2023

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The Pre-History of Hacker Culture: Phreaks, Mobsters and the Greatest Programmer in the World

MAMARONECK, NEW YORK – Carlo Gambino approached 12-year old Walter Shaw, Jr. after his father had been grilled that day by...

by Raul Diego

January 14, 2023

Blockchain

Crisis Architects, Digital Discipline and the Federal Government’s Wall Street Makeover

WASHINGTON, DC – On August 3, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Boozman (R-AR) submitted the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act to the...

by Raul Diego

January 11, 2023

Codeless

Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first...

by Raul Diego

March 20, 2023

Investigative Series

Building the Impact Finance Regime: Nigeria’s Civil War and the Road to Cyber-Colonialism – Part III

How a deliberately orchestrated ritual of death and suffering, executed at the highest levels of the Anglo-American establishment and the...

by Raul Diego

January 11, 2023

Investigative Series

Building the Impact Finance Regime: Nigeria’s Civil War and the Road to Cyber-Colonialism – Part II

How a deliberately orchestrated ritual of death and suffering, executed at the highest levels of the Anglo-American establishment and the...

by Raul Diego

January 11, 2023

Investigative Series

Building the Impact Finance Regime: Nigeria’s Civil War and the Road to Cyber-Colonialism – Part I

How a deliberately orchestrated ritual of death and suffering, executed at the highest levels of the Anglo-American establishment and the...

by Raul Diego

January 11, 2023

Blockchain

Canary in the Rare Earth Mine: The Secret War for Greenland and the Geopolitics of the Data Economy

NARSAQ, GREENLAND – Mariane Paviasen had greeted dozens of geologists, researchers and maybe even a few mining executives when they...

by Raul Diego

January 10, 2023

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