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One of You January 06, 2025
On September 24, 2010, Aaron Swartz, during his fellowship at Harvard, registered a new Acer laptop on the MIT network under the alias “Garry_Host.” The client name: “Ghost_laptop.” Anyone can walk into the MIT campus, connect their computers to the ...
My Machine and Me January 06, 2025
ONCE A DAY, at a random time, my laptop webcam photographs me. A masochistic ritual that still startles: to open a new Google tab and see my own face. I dash off a response to the prompt—What are you thinking about?—and this capture is added to my pe...
