Ben Collier

@susansegfault.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan

Discussion between two crime forum users, User 1 pastes their vibe code prompt to create a crypter. User two mocks them.
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-alone Complex depicting three Tachikomas and the Jameson robot. Subtitle reads "Fights and pranks, bring them on!"
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-alone Complex depicting a senior police officer at a press conference, with the Laughing Man logo superimposed over his face. He is making a gun with his fingers.
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex showing the Major. Subtitle reads "if you let AIs handle everything, even cats and mice will outsmart you"
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex showing Batou and a Tachikoma. The shot has been altered to show the Tachikoma handing Batou a copy of the preprint.
Front page of report showing two buildings intercut together as a collage
Photograph of car headlights at night through a haze of rain, Geneva
Unrelated picture of a sleeping Corgi
Front cover of a book about the Tor Project - black with a white abstract design