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Kashmir Hill

Tech

Your Face Is Not Your Own

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

Kashmir Hill New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime Tech

A Vast Web of Vengeance

Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

Kashmir Hill New York Times Jan 2021 15min Permalink

Tech

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life.

It was Hell.

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Tech

How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa

When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jan 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jul 2018 10min Permalink

Tech

The House That Spied on Me

Once I made my home smart, what would it learn and whom would it tell?

Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Tech

How an Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell

An IP horror story.

Kashmir Hill Fusion Apr 2016 10min Permalink

Tech

Three Days in Beijing With the Global Dissident Elite

A visit with Ai Weiwei, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Appelbaum, three people who live in justifiable paranoia of government surveillance.

Kashmir Hill Fusion 20min Permalink