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Flames, infosec shenanigans, Policy, work

On journalism, “fake news,” and the business of news media

I tweeted most of this last night. But as several people have requested, I’m re-posting this here for the purposes of readability, illumination, and annotation.

Journalism is (supposed to be) a search for the truth. It’s not (supposed to be) easy. Like science, sometimes the results are imperfect. Only through peer review, conversation, revisions and (occasionally) corrections does journalism more closely approach the truth.

This is why the drive to make news generation more efficient is so horrible for actual journalism. We’ve already repeatedly seen the problems created by what people call “the news cycle,” particularly on 24-hour cable news networks, but the problem has become more widespread as news media goes “digital.”

The problem with television journalism (especially cable) is that it is transactional, disposable and low fidelity, making quality even harder.  TV journalists are largely generalists thrown at stories with perceived mass appeal, and are expected to quick-read themselves into instant experts on topics they have little if any background in.  (For more on this, see the story I wrote on Sharyl Atkisson in November 2014). It is not a crucible for truth.

If nobody does a sanity/fact check on a story or forces the reporter to defend each sentence, and the focus is on volume, the results will inevitably be lower quality. Narratives will get forced. Facts will be bruised and bent. It’s even worse when there’s a war against truth being waged, and the sources of truth are being destroyed or obscured by bullshit. When you are time-limited and don’t have a review process on story selection and production, bad things can and will happen.

So that’s why it’s especially disheartening to see the New York Times cutting copy editors, and others trading quality for quantity & efficiency. The “digital” process adds more roles for reporters and “preditors” (producer/editors), and by focusing on producing more digital content at the expense of quality control and editorial dialogue, media companies are creating more opportunities for error–and more opportunities for the enemies of truth to exploit those errors to discredit journalism writ large.

The truth can hardly ever be found with efficiency at scale. I’m lucky because Ars is sort of artisanal about journalism. Even so, I know and acknowledge that I make mistakes, especially when thrown headlong into a breaking story. But I make a lot less of those mistakes when I have another editor checking my stuff.

Given how people are actively working to derail journalism and destroy truth, we need to acknowledge how hard a job this is. And we really need to take a step back and look at what “efficiency” and speed in news production actually costs us.

Unfortunately, we’re being driven by a business model that is anathema to deliberateness and reflection. But we need to realize that the more automated, efficient and digitally optimized “news” becomes, the more vulnerable it becomes to manipulation and attack. Journalism needs to take a deep look at its threat model, and harden itself against the forces aligned to bring it down.

 

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Fun facts: My Wikipedia cites

When you write for Ars, it’s nice that people notice. And sometimes, they notice enough to cite you on Wikipedia.

Strangely, the first hit I get on Google when searching my Wikipedia cites is for my coverage of a bus company.

  • The Hidden Wiki
    Internet portal Dark web Gallagher, Sean (23 October 2011). “Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 February
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  • List of cyberattacks
    October 2016. Gallagher, Sean (September 18, 2014). “Credit card data theft hit at least three retailers, lasted 18 months”. Ars Technica. Retrieved November
    23 KB (2,134 words) – 08:31, 18 September 2021
  • EternalBlue
    Race. Bloomsbury. Gallagher, Sean (May 28, 2019). “Eternally Blue: Baltimore City leaders blame NSA for ransomware attack”. Ars Technica. Rector, Ian Duncan
    20 KB (1,562 words) – 03:56, 26 September 2021
  • Lolita City
    Retrieved 13 June 2013. Gallagher, Sean (23 October 2011). “Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 February
    4 KB (339 words) – 19:47, 20 June 2021
  • Windows 10
    Interactive. Retrieved March 17, 2015. Gallagher, Sean (January 22, 2015). “Windows 10 brings Cortana to the desktop”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved March
    196 KB (18,486 words) – 06:22, 7 October 2021
  • CleanBrowsing
    Retrieved 2018-10-11. Gallagher, Sean. “How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived
    4 KB (265 words) – 17:51, 16 July 2021
  • Sparrow (email client)
    tech sites, who were uncertain about the future of the apps. Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica wrote he was concerned for the app’s future given Google’s previous
    7 KB (620 words) – 11:15, 29 April 2021
  • Google Docs
    4, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (May 5, 2017). “Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast
    30 KB (3,104 words) – 01:20, 10 September 2021
  • Adobe Digital Editions
    machine but not opened in ADE4. This was confirmed by Sean Gallagher, writing in Ars Technica and by others. However, no one else has confirmed the report
    9 KB (959 words) – 09:08, 12 April 2021
  • 8chan
    Retrieved June 9, 2020. Gallagher, Sean (November 5, 2019). “Breaking the law: How 8chan (or ‘8kun’) got (briefly) back online”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June
    64 KB (5,703 words) – 19:15, 4 October 2021
  • Walkaway (Doctorow novel)
    the popular ‘man against man against nature’ pulp plot.” In Ars Technica, Sean Gallagher writes that “the future is open source in this optimistic sci-fi
    7 KB (667 words) – 03:55, 29 September 2021
  • Blackphone
    Retrieved 1 March 2015. Gallagher, Sean (2016-07-13). “Paint it black: Revisiting the Blackphone and its cloudy future”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-11-11
    12 KB (1,181 words) – 02:34, 6 October 2021
  • Rambler (portal)
    Rambler.ru – Alexa Gallagher, Sean. “More passwords, please: 98 million leaked from 2012 breach of “Russia’s Yahoo””. Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 September
    5 KB (408 words) – 22:11, 5 August 2021
  • ISO/IEC 4909
    Retrieved 11 June 2021. Gallagher, Sean (28 June 2012). “Automated robbery: how card skimmers (still) steal millions from banks”. Ars Technica. “DS ISO/IEC 4909:
    4 KB (276 words) – 08:19, 16 September 2021
  • Digital kidnapping
    Retrieved 2020-03-06. Gallagher, Sean (2014-11-20). “12-year-old’s online life brings an abductor to her doorstep”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-03-06
    2 KB (238 words) – 05:22, 15 August 2021
  • Monero
    September 2018. Gallagher, Sean (4 August 2017). “Researchers say WannaCry operator moved bitcoins to “untraceable” Monero”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 22
    31 KB (2,711 words) – 09:53, 28 September 2021
  • Microsoft 365
    Gallagher, Sean (27 February 2013). “Microsoft Office 2013 Pro released to the masses, Office 365 updated”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Gallagher, Sean
    61 KB (5,002 words) – 12:44, 1 October 2021
  • Doxbin
    January 2015. Gallagher, Sean (9 November 2014). “Silk Road, other Tor “darknet” sites may have been “decloaked” through DDoS”. Ars Technica. O’Neill, Patrick
    10 KB (856 words) – 12:20, 26 September 2021
  • Notel
    Samjiyon tablet computer Gallagher, Sean (March 27, 2015). “A $50 device is breaking North Korean government’s grip on media”. Ars Technica. Pearson, James (28
    4 KB (401 words) – 06:09, 4 October 2021
  • MUSCULAR (surveillance program)
    Retrieved 2014-01-27. Gallagher, Sean (October 31, 2013). “How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks”. Ars Technica. Retrieved November
    11 KB (973 words) – 13:07, 18 September 2021
  • GPS week number rollover
    March 14, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (April 9, 2019). “Somebody forgot to upgrade: Flights delayed, cancelled by GPS rollover”. Ars Technica. “NYC Wireless
    8 KB (687 words) – 17:45, 11 September 2021
  • Gigapixel image
    Retrieved 2016-09-28. Sean Gallagher (2013-06-10). “How Google built a 52-terapixel time-lapse portrait of Earth”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2016-09-28
    6 KB (455 words) – 11:46, 11 September 2021
  • Jack Goldman
    listening post: Quotable quotes”. Popular Mechanics. Sean Gallagher (December 23, 2011) – ars technica MIT Enterprise Forum biography Belarc biography Cnet
    3 KB (241 words) – 12:29, 5 August 2021
  • DNS over HTTPS
    Retrieved 2020-07-02. Gallagher, Sean (2019-11-19). “Microsoft says yes to future encrypted DNS requests in Windows”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    31 KB (2,755 words) – 08:25, 21 September 2021
  • Security of the Java software platform
    Retrieved February 18, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (February 15, 2013). “Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit”. Ars Technica. Retrieved February 18
    19 KB (2,035 words) – 13:16, 2 August 2021
  • 2019 Baltimore ransomware attack
    Attack”. Gizmodo. Gallagher, Sean (May 8, 2019). “”RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks”. Ars Technica. Chokshi, Niraj (May
    6 KB (480 words) – 03:26, 17 July 2021
  • SourceForge
    Retrieved April 30, 2016. Sean Gallagher (June 4, 2015). “Black “mirror”: SourceForge has now seized Nmap audit tool project”. Ars Technica. “What happened to
    37 KB (2,757 words) – 17:13, 1 October 2021
  • Kali Linux
    Retrieved 2020-04-15. Gallagher, Sean (2019-07-05). “Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-04-15
    15 KB (1,402 words) – 11:33, 6 October 2021
  • Comparison of web search engines
    Retrieved July 11, 2013. Gallagher, Sean (2013-11-06). “Googlers say “F*** you” to NSA, company encrypts internal network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2017-04-29
    14 KB (576 words) – 15:45, 26 September 2021
  • George Danezis
    ISBN 9780769523392. S2CID 14029551. Gallagher, Sean (2011-10-28). “Tor Project patches critical flaw in its anonymizing network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-07-21
    10 KB (779 words) – 22:09, 4 August 2021
  • Chinese landing ship Haiyang Shan
    globalsecurity.org Gallagher, Sean (2 February 2018). “US dropped ball on Navy railgun development—now China is picking it up”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    4 KB (267 words) – 14:50, 30 April 2020
  • Ubuntu
    Retrieved 9 July 2012. Gallagher, Sean (20 November 2012). “How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    127 KB (9,602 words) – 12:16, 7 October 2021
  • Project Narwhal
    Retrieved November 12, 2012. Gallagher, Sean (November 9, 2012). “Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown”. Ars Technica. Madrigal, Alexis C. (November
    3 KB (271 words) – 18:04, 4 November 2020
  • Sikorsky Raider X
    Retrieved 15 October 2019. Gallagher, Sean (October 14, 2019). “Sikorsky makes its bid for Army’s next scout copter”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 26 March 2020
    9 KB (750 words) – 17:44, 11 September 2021
  • Nuclear power in the United Arab Emirates
    Gallagher, Sean (20 February 2019). “Report: Trump officials tried to fast-track nuclear tech transfer to Saudi Arabia”. Ars Technica. Ars Technica.
    7 KB (695 words) – 23:30, 19 August 2020
  • Ajit Pai
    Ars Technica. Retrieved April 18, 2020. Gallagher, Sean (November 22, 2019). “DOD joins fight against 5G spectrum proposal, citing risks to GPS”. Ars
    54 KB (5,466 words) – 13:05, 31 July 2021
  • Death ray
    in temperatures ranging Gallagher, Sean (2014-06-03). “Navy will deploy first ship with laser weapon this summer”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
    13 KB (1,576 words) – 01:47, 21 July 2021
  • Vault 7
    March 2017. Gallagher, Sean (23 March 2017). “New WikiLeaks dump: The CIA built Thunderbolt exploit, implants to target Macs”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    71 KB (7,819 words) – 01:06, 3 October 2021
  • GNU LibreJS
    Retrieved 2019-12-23. Gallagher, Sean (2016-06-17). “Under new management, SourceForge moves to put badness in past”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-12-23
    7 KB (581 words) – 15:16, 5 August 2021
  • TURBINE (US government project)
    March 23, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (March 12, 2014). “NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world”. Ars Technica. Retrieved March
    7 KB (716 words) – 19:37, 14 April 2020
  • PD-50
    судоремонтному заводу) Gallagher, Sean (30 October 2018). “Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as its floating dry dock sinks”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 November
    13 KB (1,191 words) – 23:44, 28 April 2021
  • Nitro cyberattacks
    23 December 2019. Gallagher, Sean (1 November 2011). “”Nitro” spear-phishers attacked chemical and defense company R&D”. Ars Technica. Prince, Brian (31
    5 KB (515 words) – 16:52, 29 September 2021
  • Flash proxy
    Internet privacy Proxy server Gallagher, Sean (2014-08-14). “A portable router that conceals your Internet traffic”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2016-04-10. [1]
    3 KB (276 words) – 07:25, 13 April 2020
  • NSA Playset
    Retrieved June 14, 2017. Sean Gallagher (August 11, 2015). “The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us”. Ars Technica: Technology Lab. Retrieved
    6 KB (602 words) – 09:52, 11 June 2021
  • Syrian Computer Society
    Retrieved 7 April 2013. Sean Gallagher (May 8, 2013). “Network Solutions seizes over 700 domains registered to Syrians”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2013-05-09
    2 KB (217 words) – 06:31, 13 May 2021
  • Continuous ink system
    exhausted print heads. Gallagher, Sean. “HP’s DRM sabotages off-brand printer ink cartridges with self-destruct date”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 17 October
    8 KB (863 words) – 07:46, 29 April 2021
  • Windows XP
    April 16, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (April 6, 2014). “Not dead yet: Dutch, British governments pay to keep Windows XP alive”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast Publications
    126 KB (10,530 words) – 09:42, 7 October 2021
  • Wix.com
    Official Wix Blog, 29 October 2016 Gallagher, Sean. “Wix gets caught ‘stealing’ GPL code from WordPress”. Ars Technica. EDT, Zoe Strozewski On 6/3/21 at
    20 KB (1,707 words) – 17:40, 8 October 2021
  • Freedom Hosting
    world’s “largest facilitator of child porn” sentenced to 27 years”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. “Dark Web Child Pornography
    12 KB (1,033 words) – 17:08, 18 September 2021
  • Gordon Lyon
    January 17, 2021. Gallagher, Sean (June 3, 2015). “Black “mirror”: SourceForge has now seized Nmap audit tool project”. Ars Technica. Retrieved January
    8 KB (646 words) – 11:27, 4 August 2021
  • CyberBunker
    March 2013. Gallagher, Sean (30 September 2019). “German police seize “bulletproof” hosting data center in former NATO bunker”. Ars Technica. BunkerInfra
    17 KB (1,782 words) – 17:23, 1 October 2021
  • AMD–Chinese joint venture
    Retrieved 31 May 2018. Gallagher, Sean (9 July 2018). “China producing x86 chips nearly identical to AMD server processors”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 11 July
    8 KB (787 words) – 17:23, 1 November 2020
  • CrowdStrike
    Retrieved 1 July 2019. Gallagher, Sean (6 December 2017). “”Malware-free” attacks mount in big breaches, CrowdStrike finds”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    33 KB (2,420 words) – 22:32, 7 October 2021
  • GIMP
    2013. Gallagher, Sean (27 May 2015). “SourceForge grabs GIMP for Windows’ account, wraps installer in bundle-pushing adware [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Chastain
    50 KB (4,470 words) – 13:39, 24 September 2021
  • National Security Space Launch
    Technica. Retrieved January 15, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (January 25, 2015). “SpaceX elbows into Air Force launch program after dropping lawsuit”. Ars Technica
    28 KB (2,976 words) – 16:08, 7 October 2021
  • AirPods
    updated AirPods are here, cost $199 with new wireless charging case”. Ars Technica. Retrieved April 2, 2020. “AirPods, the world’s most popular wireless
    27 KB (2,387 words) – 16:29, 6 October 2021
  • Max Headroom signal hijacking
    unsolved”. WGN-TV. Gallagher, Sean (November 22, 2017). “Thirty years later, “Max Headroom” TV pirate remains at large”. Ars Technica. Haskins, Caroline
    17 KB (1,732 words) – 00:57, 1 October 2021
  • Google Drive
    Retrieved January 16, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (June 29, 2012). “Hands-on with the Google Drive for iOS app: mostly read only”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved
    69 KB (7,488 words) – 20:56, 28 September 2021
  • LineageOS
    2016. Gallagher, Sean Gallagher (27 December 2016). “Cyanogen Inc. shuts down CyanogenMod in Christmas bloodbath”. Ars Technica. Ars Technica. “LineageOS”
    35 KB (3,324 words) – 11:27, 22 September 2021
  • Timeline of social media
    (January 31, 2019). “Google+ shuts down April 2, all data will be deleted”. Ars Technica. Retrieved January 31, 2019. Thacker, David (December 10, 2018). “Expediting
    44 KB (1,922 words) – 08:55, 24 September 2021
  • Mark I Fire Control Computer
    1 Computer at NavWeaps.com Gallagher, Sean. “Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 18 March
    7 KB (962 words) – 20:46, 23 March 2021
  • KRACK
    Retrieved 2017-10-16. Gallagher, Sean (2017-10-16). “How the KRACK attack destroys nearly all Wi-Fi security”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2017-10-16. Hern
    14 KB (1,155 words) – 16:18, 13 May 2021
  • Max Headroom
    Motherboard. Vice. Gallagher, Sean (22 November 2017). “Thirty years later, “Max Headroom” TV pirate remains at large”. Ars Technica. Loder, Kurt (14 September
    21 KB (2,390 words) – 23:34, 2 October 2021
  • Google worker organization
    retaliation complaint”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Captain, Sean (December 6, 2019). “Fired
    38 KB (2,873 words) – 20:29, 15 September 2021
  • Pinwale
    Retrieved 2014-03-23. Sean Gallagher (2013-10-31). “How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    5 KB (446 words) – 21:54, 16 February 2021
  • Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force
    Retrieved 13 June 2016. Gallagher, Sean. “Database corruption erases 100,000 Air Force investigation records”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 15
    13 KB (590 words) – 20:14, 18 September 2021
  • ConnectWise Control
    April 2015. Sean Gallagher (28 January 2017). “”You took so much time to joke me”—two hours trolling a Windows support scammer”. Ars technica. Archived
    12 KB (1,214 words) – 09:33, 16 August 2020
  • Potentially unwanted program
    malvertising”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2 June 2015. “Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account”. Seclists.org. 3 June 2015. Sean Gallagher (4 June 2015)
    21 KB (2,110 words) – 04:16, 24 August 2021
  • FreeDOS
    Retrieved 2008-08-04. Gallagher, Sean (2014-07-14). “Though “barely an operating system,” DOS still matters (to some people)”. ArsTechnica. Condé Nast. Retrieved
    24 KB (1,761 words) – 11:27, 6 October 2021
  • Cloudflare
    August 22, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (February 11, 2014). “Biggest DDoS ever aimed at Cloudflare’s content delivery network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved May 17
    70 KB (7,331 words) – 10:34, 8 October 2021
  • Ian Murdock
    original on April 30, 2008. Gallagher, Sean (December 30, 2015). “Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42”. Ars Technica. Retrieved December 30, 2015
    13 KB (1,055 words) – 20:37, 16 September 2021
  • Office of Personnel Management data breach
    intrusion-detection program. However, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Ars Technica, and Fortune later reported that it was unclear how the breach was discovered
    24 KB (2,513 words) – 16:22, 22 August 2021
  • Steven Murdoch
    Retrieved 22 January 2020. Gallagher, Sean (28 October 2011). “Tor Project patches critical flaw in its anonymizing network”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 22 January
    8 KB (524 words) – 11:46, 9 April 2021
  • Megaupload
    Retrieved 31 January 2012. Gallagher, Sean (30 January 2012). “Feds: Megaupload user files may be deleted starting Thursday”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    93 KB (8,412 words) – 01:02, 27 September 2021
  • Heartbleed
    Retrieved 16 April 2020. Gallagher, Sean (9 April 2014). “Heartbleed vulnerability may have been exploited months before patch”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    115 KB (9,539 words) – 06:04, 10 July 2021
  • Applied Research Associates
    robot”. Defense News. Gallagher, Sean (May 25, 2017). “Heads up: Augmented reality prepares for the battlefield”. Ars Technica. The HUNTR system developed
    8 KB (667 words) – 08:04, 12 July 2020
  • USS Zumwalt
    November 2016. Gallagher, Sean (13 December 2016). “Zumwalt’s propulsion problems were caused by seawater seepage in chillers”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 13
    24 KB (2,060 words) – 17:42, 28 August 2021
  • Advanced persistent threat
    2019. Gallagher, Sean (3 October 2019). “Kaspersky finds Uzbekistan hacking op… because group used Kaspersky AV”. arstechnica.com. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    31 KB (2,806 words) – 09:22, 8 September 2021
  • Hannibal Ford
    1993″ (PDF). Gallagher, Sean (April 24, 2014). “Before Silicon Valley got nasty, the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out”. Ars Technica. Times, Special
    4 KB (351 words) – 11:31, 27 July 2021
  • Guccifer 2.0
    October 8, 2016. Gallagher, Sean (October 4, 2016). “Guccifer 2.0 posts DCCC docs, says they’re from Clinton Foundation”. Ars Technica. Retrieved October
    48 KB (4,676 words) – 16:22, 28 September 2021
  • Oracle Corporation
    August 27, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (August 25, 2014). “Oregon Attorney General sues Oracle for ‘racketeering activity'”. Ars Technica. Retrieved August
    100 KB (9,703 words) – 04:13, 6 October 2021
  • RSA Security
    Chiefs of EMC and RSA”. Gallagher, Sean. (2014-01-21) “TrustyCon” security counter-convention planned for RSA refusniks. Ars Technica. Retrieved on 2014-05-11
    32 KB (3,390 words) – 17:42, 25 September 2021
  • Cyber force
    Retrieved 2018-10-11. Gallagher, Sean (June 13, 2017). “Facing limits of remote hacking, Army cybers up the battlefield”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-10-11
    7 KB (688 words) – 17:37, 18 September 2021
  • U.S.–UAE 123 Agreement for Peaceful Civilian Nuclear Energy Cooperation
    December 2009. Gallagher, Sean (20 February 2019). “Report: Trump officials tried to fast-track nuclear tech transfer to Saudi Arabia”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    5 KB (534 words) – 21:41, 18 March 2021
  • Linux Journal
    Retrieved 7 July 2014. Gallagher, Sean (3 July 2014). “The NSA thinks Linux Journal is an “extremist forum”?”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 9 June 2016. Fairchild
    7 KB (627 words) – 17:32, 25 September 2021
  • Airware
    Street Journal. Gallagher, Sean (August 14, 2013). “Raspberry Fly? Airware’s Linux and ARM developer platform for drones”. Ars Technica. Retrieved February
    10 KB (719 words) – 20:04, 5 September 2021
  • TeslaCrypt
    Retrieved 14 March 2015. Sean Gallagher (Mar 12, 2015). “CryptoLocker look-alike searches for and encrypts PC game files”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 14 March
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  • ZeroAccess botnet
    December 2012. Gallagher, Sean (6 December 2013). “Microsoft disrupts botnet that generated $2.7M per month for operators”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 9 December
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  • Google
    27, 2008). “Surfing on the sly with IE8’s new “InPrivate” Internet”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved
    194 KB (16,375 words) – 20:11, 4 October 2021
  • DDoS attack on Dyn
    Retrieved 21 October 2016. Gallagher, Sean. “DoS attack on major DNS provider brings Internet to morning crawl [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 21 October
    23 KB (1,653 words) – 18:27, 5 October 2021
  • Microsoft Office 2013
    Retrieved August 26, 2012. Gallagher, Sean (July 16, 2012). “Office 2013: Microsoft’s bid to win the future”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 7, 2013. “Microsoft
    54 KB (4,480 words) – 06:31, 8 October 2021
  • Twitter
    Ars Technica. Retrieved July 17, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (July 15, 2019). “Twitter is changing Twitter.com to be more like mobile app”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    327 KB (32,807 words) – 01:08, 8 October 2021
  • High Orbit Ion Cannon
    Archive.org. Gallagher, Sean (16 February 2012). “High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved
    16 KB (1,728 words) – 17:36, 15 May 2021
  • Gamergate (harassment campaign)
    4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, particularly the “KotakuInAction” subreddit. Ars Technica reported that a series of 4chan discussion logs suggests that Twitter
    191 KB (16,243 words) – 02:29, 6 October 2021
  • Hughes Network Systems
    February 2, 2018. Gallagher, Sean (15 August 2017). “Hughes signs deal to launch 100Mbps satellite Internet service in 2021”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 15 February
    19 KB (1,564 words) – 03:06, 9 September 2021
  • Amazon S3 Glacier
    18, 2015. Gallagher, Sean (November 9, 2015). “How Facebook puts petabytes of old cat pix on ice in the name of sustainability”. Ars Technica. “Amazon
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  • Nuclear-powered aircraft
    Tupolev Tu-95LAL Gallagher, Sean (22 March 2018). “Best bad idea ever? Why Putin’s nuclear-powered missile is possible… and awful”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
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  • List of data breaches
    Retrieved 2018-12-04. Gallagher, Sean. “More passwords, please: 98 million leaked from 2012 breach of “Russia’s Yahoo””. Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 September
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  • Chubby Checker
    the original on 2008-02-09. Gallagher, Sean (2013-02-14). “HP sued by Chubby Checker over webOS penis size app”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2015-08-18. “Famed
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  • Google App Engine
    Retrieved 2012-07-17. Gallagher, Sean (2008-04-09). “Analysis: Google App Engine alluring, will be hard to escape”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2012-07-17
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  • Tailored Access Operations
    Retrieved 2014-01-18. Gallagher, Sean (2013-11-12). “Quantum of pwnness: How NSA and GCHQ hacked OPEC and others”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2014-01-18
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  • Facebook
    NYTimes.com. Gallagher, Sean (March 24, 2018). “Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
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  • Oracle Solaris
    Oracle doesn’t seem to care about Solaris 11 code leak on Ars Technica by Sean Gallagher (Dec 21, 2011) “Source Code for Open Source Software Components”
    68 KB (5,349 words) – 20:11, 26 September 2021
  • Dry dock
    Popular Science SEAN GALLAGHER (20 October 2018). “Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as its floating dry dock sinks”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 November
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  • Brian Krzanich
    vulnerabilities”. The Hill. Gallagher, Sean (January 4, 2018). “Intel CEO sold all the stock he could after Intel learned of security bug”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-01-05
    33 KB (2,724 words) – 13:04, 29 September 2021
  • Tor (network)
    Retrieved 28 April 2014. Gallagher, Sean (18 April 2014). “Tor network’s ranks of relay servers cut because of Heartbleed bug”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    164 KB (14,673 words) – 09:52, 5 October 2021
  • Docs.com
    PCWorld. IDG. Gallagher, Sean (27 March 2017). “Doxed by Microsoft’s Docs.com: Users unwittingly shared sensitive docs publicly”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast
    10 KB (880 words) – 08:40, 16 January 2021
  • Zoom (software)
    “Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on April 1, 2020. Retrieved April 2, 2020
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  • Purism (company)
    Retrieved 2019-02-26. Gallagher, Sean (2014-11-19). “Crowdfunding project promises a “laptop that respects essential freedoms””. Ars Technica. Wired Media Group
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  • Kim Dotcom
    Dotcom hasn’t been extradited 3 years after the US smashed Megaupload”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 26 May 2017. Eleanor Ainge Roy (20 February 2017). “Kim Dotcom
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  • 2017 Equifax data breach
    Retrieved September 29, 2017. Gallagher, Sean. “Equifax hackers stole data for 200k credit cards from transaction history”. Ars Technica. Retrieved September 29
    39 KB (3,947 words) – 04:01, 10 July 2021
  • AGM-114 Hellfire
    10 May 2019. Gallagher, Sean (9 May 2019). “Drones used missiles with knife warhead to take out single terrorist targets”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    44 KB (3,654 words) – 04:17, 17 September 2021
  • Edward Snowden
    leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one”. Ars Technica. Retrieved October 24, 2019. Wilentz, Sean (January 19, 2014). “Would You Feel Differently
    246 KB (24,009 words) – 18:13, 6 October 2021
  • Joker (character)
    Michael (November 18, 2008). “Review: Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved December
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  • Viasat Internet
    Retrieved May 1, 2015. Sean Gallagher (January 10, 2012). “How Viasat’s Exede makes satellite broadband not suck”. ArsTechnica. Retrieved May 1, 2015
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  • World Anti-Doping Agency
    September 2016. Gallagher, Sean (6 October 2016). “Researchers find fake data in Olympic anti-doping, Guccifer 2.0 Clinton dumps”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    31 KB (3,003 words) – 10:45, 27 September 2021
  • Ahmed Al-Khabaz
    Retrieved 2019-03-11. Gallagher, Sean (2013-01-21). “Update: Canadian student expelled for playing security “white hat””. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-03-11
    10 KB (1,019 words) – 23:09, 29 July 2021
  • Signal (software)
    10 January 2019. Gallagher, Sean (2 May 2018). “Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal’s account”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived
    119 KB (9,788 words) – 12:58, 5 October 2021
  • J. Alex Halderman
    Measurement Conference. Gallagher, Sean (2014-04-10). “Researchers find thousands of potential targets for Heartbleed OpenSSL bug”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-06-10
    27 KB (2,582 words) – 09:57, 4 December 2020
  • Yahoo!
    14, 2016. Gallagher, Sean (February 15, 2017). “Yahoo reveals more breachiness to users victimized by forged cookies [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Archived
    62 KB (4,870 words) – 03:30, 7 October 2021
  • Selex ES
    on 19 July 2013. Gallagher, Sean (July 5, 2012). “Wikileaks: Italian firm sold Syria secure radios as crackdown raged”. Ars Technica. Retrieved October
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  • NSA ANT catalog
    January 1, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (December 31, 2013). “Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic”. Ars Technica. Retrieved January
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  • Emma Best (journalist)
    2021. Gallagher, Sean (January 7, 2019). “Please don’t repeat these things WikiLeaks says you can’t say about Assange [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
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  • Inception
    “Can’t watch Tenet? Now is the perfect time to revisit Inception”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on September 7, 2020. Retrieved September
    136 KB (12,984 words) – 07:16, 5 October 2021
  • Shamoon
    Security – What are the Impacts?”. Sean Gallagher (2016-12-01). “Shamoon wiper malware returns with a vengeance”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2017-07-03. Nicole
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  • Domain fronting
    Retrieved 2020-09-16. Gallagher, Sean (2018-05-02). “Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal’s account”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-09-16
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  • List of TCP and UDP port numbers
    Media Server) … Gallagher, Sean (2014-01-02). “Backdoor in wireless DSL routers lets attacker reset router, get admin”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    285 KB (11,317 words) – 00:13, 8 October 2021
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    Kingdom’s attempted philosophical musings seriously.” Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica called the film a B movie consisting of “a sixth-grade sketchbook mash
    169 KB (16,865 words) – 15:56, 8 October 2021
  • Alliance for Securing Democracy
    Retrieved September 28, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (August 2, 2017). “New Web tool tracks Russian “influence ops” on Twitter”. Ars Technica. Retrieved September 29
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  • Skype
    Skype”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 21 July 2020. Tänavsuu, Toivo (3 September 2018). “”How can they be so good?”: The strange story of Skype”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    90 KB (8,400 words) – 23:43, 4 October 2021
  • Cover Oregon
    October 4, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (August 25, 2014). “Oregon Attorney General sues Oracle for “racketeering activity””. Ars Technica. Retrieved August
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  • Ang Cui
    Retrieved 2019-03-03. Gallagher, Sean (2015-08-06). “”Funtenna” software hack turns a laser printer into a covert radio”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2019-03-03
    32 KB (2,954 words) – 08:09, 13 June 2021
  • Microsoft Office
    18, 2013. Gallagher, Sean (January 29, 2013). “Review: Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Edition hopes to be at your service”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast
    183 KB (15,219 words) – 23:06, 5 October 2021
  • Hewlett-Packard
    Retrieved August 13, 2016. Gallagher, Sean (August 1, 2012). “HP wins judgment in Itanium suit against Oracle”. Ars Technica. Retrieved July 1, 2016. Bright
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  • Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
    March 23, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (March 12, 2014). “NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world”. Ars Technica. Retrieved March
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  • Liz Cheney
    “Republican-controlled government sees chance to weaken Endangered Species Act”. Ars Technica. Retrieved March 11, 2017. Zilbermints, Regina (May 26, 2019). “Liz Cheney:
    91 KB (8,222 words) – 13:10, 2 October 2021
  • XKeyscore
    X-Keyscore Gives NSA the Ability to Find and Exploit Vulnerable Systems”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on August 4, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013
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  • Anonymous (hacker group)
    12, 2011. Gallagher, Sean (March 6, 2012). “Inside the hacking of Stratfor: the FBI’s case against Antisec member Anarchaos”. Ars technica. Retrieved
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  • PewDiePie
    creator.” On this issue, a Google representative provided a comment to Ars Technica, stating “Some creators have expressed concerns around a drop in their
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  • Fox Corporation
    Comcast: Fox and Disney sign new merger deal, rejecting Comcast bid”. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 20, 2018. Lee, Edmund (June 20, 2018). “Disney Ups Its
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  • Fancy Bear
    September 2016. Gallagher, Sean (6 October 2016). “Researchers find fake data in Olympic anti-doping, Guccifer 2.0 Clinton dumps”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    70 KB (7,076 words) – 16:29, 5 October 2021
  • Criticism of Huawei
    29 August 2011. Gallagher, Sean (2019-03-28). “UK cyber security officials report Huawei’s security practices are a mess”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    199 KB (18,335 words) – 21:40, 26 September 2021
  • I2P
    involved, Get I2P. Gallagher, Sean (2015-01-13). “Under the hood of I2P, the Tor alternative that reloaded Silk Road”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    47 KB (3,517 words) – 12:21, 7 October 2021
  • Wide-bandgap semiconductor
    September 2014. Gallagher, Sean (9 June 2016). “A reprieve for Moore’s Law: milspec chip writes computing’s next chapter”. Ars Technica. Kirschman, Randall
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  • National Security Agency
    OK Heise, 1999. Gallagher, Sean (May 14, 2014). “Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant”. Ars Technica. Whitwam, Ryan (December
    205 KB (21,640 words) – 23:49, 2 October 2021
  • Phishing
    September 2016. Gallagher, Sean (6 October 2016). “Researchers find fake data in Olympic anti-doping, Guccifer 2.0 Clinton dumps”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    117 KB (10,592 words) – 05:00, 5 October 2021
  • Random-access memory
    Retrieved 11 July 2019. Gallagher, Sean (2013-04-04). “Memory that never forgets: non-volatile DIMMs hit the market”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    58 KB (5,785 words) – 02:32, 24 August 2021
  • John Mayer
    non-musically inclined” Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 12, 2007. Krazit, Tom (January 9, 2007). “Live Macworld
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  • Post-scarcity economy
    ISBN 978-3-319-09566-0 Gallagher, Sean (25 April 2017). “Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway: Hardware hackers face the climate apocalypse”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived
    31 KB (3,269 words) – 06:57, 29 September 2021
  • Paul Eremenko
    September 2014. Gallagher, Sean (6 December 2011). “DARPA’s factory of the future looks like open source development”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 28 September
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  • Helium
    ISBN 978-0-262-13308-1. Gallagher, Sean (November 4, 2013). “HGST balloons disk capacity with helium-filled 6TB drive”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    138 KB (15,146 words) – 20:27, 15 September 2021
  • IBM Deep Thunder
    Retrieved 2014-01-12. Gallagher, Sean. “How IBM’s Deep Thunder delivers “hyper-local” forecasts 3-1/2 days out”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 24 October 2013
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  • PRISM (surveillance program)
    October 31, 2013. Gallagher, Sean (October 31, 2013). “How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks”. Ars Technica. Archived from
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  • Stranger Things
    “Stranger Things 3 mobile game will let you jump into new Hawkins madness”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018. Retrieved December 7
    164 KB (13,444 words) – 11:25, 3 October 2021
  • Computer security
    S2CID 27594864. Gallagher, Sean (14 May 2014). “Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
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  • Uyghur genocide
    “Twitter takes down China’s “baby-making machines” tweet on Uighur women”. Ars Technica. Westcott, Ben; Xiong, Yong. “Xinjiang’s Uyghurs didn’t choose to be
    291 KB (26,943 words) – 16:07, 5 October 2021
  • Viasat (American company)
    Retrieved May 1, 2015. Sean Gallagher (January 10, 2012). “How ViaSat’s Exede makes satellite broadband not suck”. ArsTechnica. Retrieved May 1, 2015
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  • 50 Cent Party
    19 May 2016 Gallagher, Sean (13 June 2016). “Red astroturf: Chinese government makes millions of fake social media posts”. Ars Technica. Archived from
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  • Infinite monkey theorem
    February 2016. Sean Gallagher (15 February 2019). “Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 18
    49 KB (6,426 words) – 01:39, 16 September 2021
  • Almaz
    October 9, 2012. Sean Gallagher (November 17, 2015). “Russian television reveals another secret: the Soviet space cannon”. Ars Technica. James Bamford.
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  • Delivery drone
    28 November 2013. Gallagher, Sean (27 November 2013). “Drone crew caught attempting to deliver smokes to prison inmates”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 28 November
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  • ORCA (computer system)
    bandwidth, or notify its ISP to expect a bump in traffic.” Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica commented that the key failure was the dependency on automated
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  • Glenn Greenwald
    August 4, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (October 20, 2016). “Agents of influence: How reporters have been “weaponized” by leaks”. Ars Technica. Archived from the
    150 KB (12,830 words) – 00:08, 27 September 2021
  • Wreck-It Ralph
    2012). “From Zangief to Hero’s Duty: A gamer’s guide to Wreck-It Ralph”. Ars Technica. Retrieved December 16, 2012. Robinson, Tasha (November 1, 2012). “Wreck-It
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  • Allwinner Technology
    2016-01-30. Gallagher, Sean (11 May 2016). “Chinese ARM vendor left developer backdoor in kernel for Android, “Pi” devices”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 11
    43 KB (2,922 words) – 13:35, 26 September 2021
  • History of Facebook
    2016. “Hands on: Facebook redesign tries to clear the social smog”. Ars Technica. July 21, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2016. “Old Facebook Will be Gone
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  • Operation AntiSec
    Retrieved 22 October 2011. Gallagher, Sean (21 November 2011). “Anonymous exposes cybercrime investigator’s Gmail, voicemail”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast Publications
    81 KB (7,980 words) – 16:45, 8 July 2021
  • Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
    May 2019. Gallagher, Sean (25 March 2019). “Ethiopian Airlines flight’s stall-prevention software was active at crash, CEO says”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    64 KB (5,852 words) – 23:28, 7 October 2021
  • UltraSPARC T1
    premium?”. Sean Gallagher (28 September 2011), “SPARC T4 looks to be good enough to stave off defections to x86, Linux”, arstechnica.com, Ars Technica Niccolai
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  • USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision
    Retrieved 11 July 2017. Gallagher, Sean (17 June 2017). “”Internet of Ships” tells tale of USS Fitzgerald tragedy—or half of it”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 24 July
    35 KB (3,608 words) – 01:58, 20 May 2021
  • 21st Century Fox
    “Comcast confirms plan to buy 21st Century Fox and control of Hulu”. Ars Technica. Retrieved May 24, 2018. Faber, David (May 29, 2018). “Disney lines up
    58 KB (5,508 words) – 10:28, 3 October 2021
  • Video game crash of 1983
    2013). “The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry”. Ars Technica. Retrieved September 21, 2018. U.S. Court of Appeals; Federal Circuit
    62 KB (7,157 words) – 03:25, 8 September 2021
  • Ritchie Torres
    2015). “Cab medallion owners sue NYC, blame Uber for ruining business”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017
    51 KB (4,254 words) – 02:02, 21 September 2021
  • Google data centers
    March 9, 2017. Gallagher, Sean (October 31, 2013). “How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved
    49 KB (4,927 words) – 16:21, 1 October 2021
  • Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
    December 2006. Gallagher, Sean (30 October 2018). “Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as its floating dry dock sinks”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 November
    63 KB (5,739 words) – 14:06, 7 September 2021
  • CongressEdits
    Retrieved July 16, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (July 11, 2014). “@Congressedits tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits from Capitol Hill”. Ars Technica. Retrieved July 16
    15 KB (1,256 words) – 20:05, 22 August 2021
  • Clint Watts
    June 4, 2017 Gallagher, Sean (May 3, 2017), “Facebook enters war against “information operations,” acknowledges election hijinx”, Ars Technica, retrieved
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  • Glenn Beck
    Glenn Beck says yes”, Ars Technica, 2009 Anderson, Nate, “Glenn Beck loses domain dispute, still ends up with domain”, Ars Technica, 2009 “The Puppet Master”
    154 KB (15,826 words) – 00:12, 16 September 2021
  • Last.fm
    Retrieved 7 September 2013. Gallagher, Sean. “Over 40 million usernames, passwords from 2012 breach of Last.fm surface”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    69 KB (6,573 words) – 22:54, 21 September 2021
  • Bashar al-Assad
    multiple Facebook accounts. Gallagher, Sean (8 February 2012). “Anonymous exposes e-mails of Syrian presidential aides”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 15 March 2015
    197 KB (18,951 words) – 12:00, 7 October 2021
  • Going Clear (film)
    June 27, 2015. Gallagher, Sean (June 26, 2015). “Private investigator snooped on e-mail of Scientology critics [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    54 KB (5,108 words) – 20:15, 18 August 2021
  • Syrian Electronic Army
    Retrieved October 15, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (May 8, 2013). “Network Solutions seizes over 700 domains registered to Syrians”. Ars Technica. Retrieved October 15
    32 KB (3,318 words) – 10:08, 11 July 2021
  • Angus King
    opioid overdose drug went from $690 to $4,500—and senators want answers”. Ars Technica. Retrieved September 21, 2020. Maine’s congressional delegation responds
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  • Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
    2010. Fisher, Ken (December 22, 2005). “California game law blocked”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on August 12, 2010. Retrieved November 1
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  • Surkov leaks
    Retrieved 2018-04-02. Gallagher, Sean (27 October 2016). “Some hacked e-mails, documents from Putin advisor confirmed as genuine”. Ars Technica. “Russian reporters
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  • CNN (redirect from Sean Murtagh)
    “White House could use AT&T/Time Warner deal as ‘leverage’ against CNN”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 27
    117 KB (10,537 words) – 09:23, 2 October 2021
  • Stop Online Piracy Act
    December 19, 2011. Sean Gallagher (November 17, 2011). “Anonymous “dimnet” tries to create hedge against DNS censorship”. Ars Technica. Retrieved December
    136 KB (13,740 words) – 08:15, 7 October 2021
  • Helmet-mounted display
    Dailytech.com. Retrieved 2017-01-04. SEAN GALLAGHER (2014-07-24). “”Magic Helmet” for F-35 ready for delivery”. Ars Technica. “Saab & BAE Systems sign agreement
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  • NTP server misuse and abuse
    Retrieved 2006-04-08. Gallagher, Sean (2014-02-11). “Biggest DDoS ever aimed at Cloudflare’s content delivery network”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original
    26 KB (2,873 words) – 20:17, 8 October 2021
  • CompuServe
    7, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2020. Gallagher, Sean (November 14, 2017). “CompuServe Forums, RIP”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on February
    61 KB (7,140 words) – 08:33, 19 September 2021
  • Megaupload legal case
    2014. “Government trying to deny Megaupload fair legal representation”. Ars Technica. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012. Goldman, Eric (30 April 2012)
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  • Devin Nunes
    Nunes’s ludicrous $250 million lawsuit against Twitter, explained”. Ars Technica. Retrieved January 21, 2020. Ho, Vivian (March 19, 2019). “Goats, cows
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  • 2021 in science
    “Strange microbe “breathes” nitrates using a mitochondria-like symbiont”. Ars Technica. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021. Graf, Jon S.; Schorn, Sina;
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  • Big Ten Network
    official wants Comcast to offer $10, 10Mbps Internet after merger”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 10 October 2020. “Comcast drops Big Ten Network in many out-of-market
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  • The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones)
    “That time when Littlefinger and Lyanna Stark promoted a comet landing”. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Jakobsen, Andreas (June
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  • BlueLink (company)
    February 4, 2020. Gallagher, Sean (February 4, 2020). “”Robust,” “scalable” not words that apply to Iowa Dem Caucus app [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Retrieved February
    20 KB (1,799 words) – 05:32, 30 March 2021
  • COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt
    April 2020. Gallagher, Sean (6 April 2020). “Aircraft carrier captain lost his command because of “Catch-22″ COVID-19 dilemma”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    46 KB (4,111 words) – 11:56, 18 September 2021
  • Loran-C
    January 2013. Gallagher, Sean (7 August 2017). “Radio navigation set to make global return as GPS backup, because cyber”. Ars Technica. “GPS.gov: LORAN-C
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  • Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
    2017. Gallagher, Sean (December 12, 2016). “Recapping the facts—Did the Russians ‘hack’ the election? A look at the established facts”. ArsTechnica. Retrieved
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  • Timeline of events associated with Anonymous
    (2011). “Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal… very personal”. ars technica. Steve Ragan. “Anonymous’ Operation: Sony is a double-edged sword”. Tech
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  • List of commercial failures in video games
    “PlayStation Classic’s full game list announced, and it might annoy you”. Ars Technica. Retrieved April 29, 2019. Kuchera, Ben (December 26, 2018). “PlayStation
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  • Censorship by Google
    Amendment doesn’t apply on YouTube; judges reject PragerU lawsuit”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2020-02-26. Turton, William. “Gun vloggers are flipping out
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  • Disappearance of ARA San Juan
    14 December 2017. Gallagher, Sean (17 November 2017). “Argentine Navy diesel sub disappears, NASA plane joins in search”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 17 November
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  • Russian gay propaganda law
    Kyle (9 May 2014). “Russia hangs adults-only rating on The Sims 4”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved 9 May 2014. “Russian MPs accuse Fifa 17
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  • Criticism of Google
    “Google officially ends forced Google+ integration—First up: YouTube”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved June 6, 2017. “Changes to using YouTube with Google+”
    133 KB (14,058 words) – 14:34, 8 October 2021
  • EmDrive
    2014). “Don’t buy stock in impossible space drives just yet”. Ars Technica. Ars Technica. Retrieved 2 August 2014. Nelsen, Eleanor (31 July 2014). “Improbable
    79 KB (7,983 words) – 00:10, 6 July 2021
  • Suburban Express
    4, 2016. Gallagher, Sean (February 13, 2013). “Troll road: Bus company posts “dirt” on complaining passenger”. Ars Technica. Gallagher, Sean (May 2, 2013)
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  • Roger Stone
    November 17, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (March 23, 2018). “DNC “lone hacker” Guccifer 2.0 pegged as Russian spy after opsec fail”. Ars Technica. Retrieved November
    138 KB (14,028 words) – 04:57, 8 October 2021
  • Abqaiq–Khurais attack
    September 2019. Gallagher, Sean (16 September 2019). “Missiles and drones that hit Saudi oil fields: Made in Iran, but fired by whom?”. Ars Technica. Archived
    89 KB (7,939 words) – 17:12, 14 September 2021
  • Propaganda in China
    3 May 2020. Gallagher, Sean (13 June 2016). “Red astroturf: Chinese government makes millions of fake social media posts”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 14
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  • Fair Game (Scientology)
    January 2016. Gallagher, Sean (26 June 2015). “Private investigator snooped on e-mail of Scientology critics [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved
    55 KB (6,650 words) – 18:39, 19 July 2021
  • Cyberwarfare by Russia
    “First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation”. Ars Technica. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June
    59 KB (5,263 words) – 19:46, 27 September 2021
  • Chinese intelligence activity abroad
    Communist Party. Gallagher, Sean (13 October 2017). “Australian defense firm was hacked and F-35 data stolen, DOD confirms”. Ars Technica. Archived from
    203 KB (18,195 words) – 08:25, 1 October 2021
  • Boeing 737 MAX certification
    April 3, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (April 3, 2019). “Whistleblowers: FAA 737 MAX safety inspectors lacked training, certification”. Ars Technica. Retrieved April
    160 KB (17,729 words) – 08:22, 17 September 2021
  • History of video game consoles
    2013). “The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry”. Ars Technica. Retrieved September 21, 2018. “The Nintendo Threat?”. Computer Gaming
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  • List of video game crowdfunding projects
    subject is touchy”—2Dark is a game where even the children aren’t safe”. Ars Technica. GameCentral. “2Dark review – together in the dark”. Metro.co.uk. Adam
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  • Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017)
    14, 2016. Gallagher, Sean (February 15, 2017). “Yahoo reveals more breachiness to users victimized by forged cookies [Updated]”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
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  • Scott Gration
    Retrieved 2015-03-11. Gallagher, Sean (March 8, 2015). “The Ambassador who worked from a Nairobi bathroom to avoid State Dept. IT”. Ars Technica. Retrieved May
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  • Reactions to the Boeing 737 MAX groundings
    CNBC. Retrieved March 15, 2019. Gallagher, Sean (April 2, 2019). “Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery”. Ars Technica. Retrieved April 29, 2019. “Boeing
    107 KB (11,815 words) – 04:50, 17 September 2021
  • Comparison of user features of messaging platforms
    integration”. Ars Technica. Retrieved March 20, 2010. Paul, Ryan (March 20, 2009). “Hands-on: GNOME 2.26 brings incremental improvements”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    236 KB (23,804 words) – 06:32, 2 October 2021
  • Timeline of global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
    March 23, 2014. Gallagher, Sean (March 12, 2014). “NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world”. Ars Technica. Retrieved March
    185 KB (17,966 words) – 20:31, 5 July 2021
  • Notable events in American television (2020)
    “Google Fiber kills TV service, focuses on broadband and YouTube TV”. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved February 6, 2020. Owoseje, Toyin (February 6,
    263 KB (8,288 words) – 17:16, 1 October 2021
  • January–March 2020 in science
    We’ve now got some ideas about how its two-lobed shape came to be”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 14 February 2020. “The Most Distant World We’ve Ever Explored
    199 KB (19,901 words) – 22:12, 1 October 2021
  • Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (July 2016–election day)
    18, 2021. Gallagher, Sean (May 25, 2017). “Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with “Guccifer 2.0″, analyzing hacked data”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    211 KB (23,270 words) – 01:18, 7 October 2021
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
    switch to esports in the age of the coronavirus”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 23 March 2020. O’Kane, Sean (22 March 2020). “Pro drivers are competing with
    357 KB (36,578 words) – 08:55, 5 October 2021
  • Cris Thomas (Space Rogue)
    project shows fuzzy-tailed intruders cause more damage than “cyber” does”. Ars Technica. USA. Retrieved 28 Nov 2017. Powner, David. “INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
    27 KB (2,361 words) – 01:52, 1 July 2021
  • 2018 in science
    Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it”. Ars Technica. Retrieved 6 January 2018. Walsh, Fergus (3 January 2018). “Woman receives
    236 KB (22,164 words) – 11:37, 22 September 2021
  • Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
    13, 2018. Gallagher, Sean (May 25, 2017). “Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with “Guccifer 2.0″, analyzing hacked data”. Ars Technica. Retrieved
    382 KB (38,159 words) – 20:33, 6 September 2021

Results from sister projects

That’s what I’ve found so far. Feel free to quote me.

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