On wired, we've already Have been fascinated by hooligans for a long time. After all, this is a publication founded in the early 1990s, born from a desire to advocate for the disruptive, destructive emergence of the Internet, as well as hackers, scammers and blue sky madmen who are consumed by the possibility of digital and interconnected planets.
Of course, Wired knows nothing, then, what those rogues will eventually release: the spread of bad actors wreaking havoc across the web; the booming industry of online conspiracy theorists whose dangerous beliefs threaten everything from the health of our children to the power of our democracy; and a bunch of tech billionaires from Silicon Valley all the way to the White House checkbooks and megaphones. Yes, Rogues built the internet and inspired a technological revolution. Now, an identical, unspiritable variant, more powerful version threatens many incredible advances made by technical and scientific inquiry. Doge Boys: I'm watching you.
In this version of Wired, we find many ways to show you how curved and distorted our world has become. Matt Burgess brings you the inner story of Nigeria Yahoo Boys and "Scam Influencers" to teach them how to attract sophisticated digital illusions to American victims. From Andy Greenberg, the timeline of the ghost gun ultimately led to the one Luigi Mangione used to murder the healthcare CEO in the vast daylight, an act that turned Mangione into the internet’s most popular rogue in recent memory. (Scroll down to see what happened when Andy tried to recreate the weapon.) From Evan Ratliff, Evan Ratliff is the grand, backbone legend of the Zizians, a group of talented young technicians who became the world's first death cult to AI-invasion and allegedly killed six sixes, six in several violent situations.
fraud? DIY gun? AI death cult? Yes, things are rough there. But in melancholy melancholy we will not fail to find or even create pleasure. Elsewhere in this issue, we’ll introduce you to a new era of anti-establishment rebellion, which is rooted: Amber Scorah, co-founder of nonprofits, is one such example. The other is Jay Graber, Bruceki CEO, who sits down with Kate Knibbs to articulate her vision for democratizing the social internet. Plus, our gear experts will show you the smoothest, villainies products to get your Super Lan's Nest.
If you take one thing out of our rogue problem, I hope it's like this: "rogue" is by no means derogatory - even a bad actor who feels more annoying than ever, sits on the highest seat of power and runs on almost everything. Actually, I think this moment requires more rogues, not less. Idealist hooligan. Unconsciously hooligan. The new iteration of Blue Madman can imagine what a better world should look like and is willing to fight the status quo to get us there. So be the rogue you want to see in the world and know that the rebellious spirit in wired DNA will be with you.