The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties, wearing […]
Tag: Backchannel
SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
But they had been at it only 24 hours when they found the passage they’d been looking for: a single file that […]
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
At a location he keeps secret, John Honovich was on his laptop, methodically scouring every link on a website for a conference […]
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame
The direct ripple effects of that explosion of incriminating data, passed through so many institutions’ records, aren’t easy to track. But over […]
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown
Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew […]
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face
The FBI agent, thinking quickly, avoided eye contact with Cazes and walked directly past him to the door. In the seconds it […]
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 1: The Shadow
Shortly before AlphaBay took over the dark web’s top spot, Alpha02 had changed his username on the site to merely “admin” and […]
Inside the Shadow Evacuation of Kabul
Certain it was too late, Parker called Essazay, who told his family to leave everything behind, not even packing a change of […]
The Family That Mined the Pentagon’s Data for Profit
While the two sat for lunch, Botha delivered Posey a shopping list of technical data and manuals for Newport Aeronautical to procure. […]
‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’
By late August, as the government continued to stonewall the protesters’ growing demands, many young people became more desperate. They routinely relied […]