Last week, Joya Banerjee published a distressing account at Slate of an anti-circumcision fringe group's efforts to...
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Last week, Joya Banerjee published a distressing account at Slate of an anti-circumcision fringe group's efforts to bury a book about the AIDS epidemic under a pile of blistering customer reviews. It seems the tactic worked.
It's a cautionary tale for anyone publishing a science or medical book on a controversial topic. The book, Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It, by Craig Timberg of The Washington Post and Daniel Halperin of the University of North Carolina, was published by Penguin in March, according to the Slate account. The book received...
This is one of the most frightening hacking stories I've read, because I immediately recognized my own vulnerability.
The victim, Matt Honan, is a writer for Wired, where he...
This is one of the most frightening hacking stories I've read, because I immediately recognized my own vulnerability.
The victim, Matt Honan, is a writer for Wired, where he tells the story of the nightmare he experienced over the weekend. It's worth reading to understand what your own vulnerability might be, but it's also worth reading as a piece of journalism: Honan does a very nice job of telling a complicated personal story.
Honan is a familiar figure to many online, and to readers of Wired. Despite his intimacy with the Web, he admits that he made a mistake that he should never have made:
Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn't have had to wrorry about losing more than a year's...
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