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The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
by David Kushner + Follow
GQ | May 2012
They've become a part of the pop-culture landscape: sexy, private shots of celebrities (your Scarletts, your Milas) stolen from their phones and e-mail accounts. They're also the center of an entire stealth industry. For the man recently arrested in the biggest case yet, hacking also gave him access to a trove of Hollywood's seamiest secrets—who was sleeping together, who was closeted, who liked to sext. What the snoop didn't realize was that he was being watched, too.
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Machine Politics
by David Kushner + Follow
The New Yorker | May 2012
The man who started the hacker wars.
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The Hacker Is Watching
by David Kushner + Follow
GQ | January 2012
Every online scam begins more or less the same—a random e-mail, a sketchy attachment. But every so often, a new type of hacker comes along. Someone who rewrites the rules, not just the code. He secretly burrows his way into your hard drive, then into your life. Is he following your every move?
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Murder by Text
by David Kushner + Follow
Vanity Fair | October 2011
Kim Proctor was no different than your ordinary teenage girl. Easily hurt by insults and just as easily swayed by compliments, she dwelled in an angsty purgatory familiar to most adolescents. But when Kim went from average kid to missing girl, her storyline took a tragic turn.
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Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory
by David Kushner + Follow
Mother Jones | April 2010
WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin—and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq. Meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site.
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The Boy Who Heard Too Much
by David Kushner + Follow
Rolling Stone | September 2009
A blind boy with a keen sense of hearing discovered he had an uncanny talent for manipulating people on the telephone – and made enough mischief that it took the FBI to stop him.
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Like Minds
by David Kushner + Follow
Wired | February 2008
Push Singh and Chris McKinstry had a lot in common: Both Canadian. Both coders. Both obsessed with tapping the Web to create a true artificial intelligence. And both found dead in the same strange way.
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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
by David Kushner + Follow
Wired | January 2008
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One Giant Screwup for Mankind
by David Kushner + Follow
Wired | January 2007
NASA put a man on the moon - then lost the videotape. A grizzled crew of ex-rocket jockeys are on a star-crossed mission to find it.
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The Neopets Addiction
by David Kushner + Follow
Wired | December 2005
20 million kids can't get enough - and neither can advertisers. How a virtual animal kingdom became a product placement paradise.