This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.
JOSEPH: This week I’ve been working mostly on a new project that I’m hoping we can reveal first to paying subscribers soon. You never know how or whether this stuff is going to work out so I’ll leave it there and update very soon. I do have a few articles coming, probably next week—a U.S. agency’s use of AI, a new harassment tactic in the digital underground, and some privacy and cybersecurity stuff.
I did work a little on Jason’s article about Deadspin’s new owners. One line in there reads that the IP address related to the new owner’s Lineup Publishing’s website “is linked to a site called Casino Sivut, a spammy Finnish digital casino website.” I wrote this line, and I kept it vague without getting into the technical details (I didn’t want to derail the rest of Jason’s article), but let me explain what it means exactly, and why I think journalists especially could make use of some of these tools and datasets.