Pitch Us On the Hacks We Can’t See

Hacks, data breaches, and malware have become daily routines, an unavoidable, fundamental part of the internet. Large companies, big government agencies, power plants, regular people, and even makers of hacking tools have gotten hacked in the last few months. It's so routine, we had to make a special series of stories to reflect that: Another Day, Another Hack.

We've grown so used to stuff like this that it's now a common belief to think everything is hackable, and will be hacked at some point. But what are the hacks we haven't seen yet? And what's hiding behind the ones we have seen?

Is everything on the internet so fundamentally broken, as journalist Quinn Norton masterfully argued in a piece that should be mandatory reading for everyone who works or is in any way involved in the world of cybersecurity? Is there really no turning back? Could we ever make the internet, and computers, immune, or at least, less prone, to hacking?

Here at Motherboard, we cover cybersecurity, or information security as some would like it to be referred to, every week. But we wanted to dedicate a full week, from July 25 until July 29, called THE HACKS WE CAN'T SEE, to try to explore all these questions and try to take a peek at the future of hacking.

If you have any ideas for stories, please pitch me directly at lorenzo@motherboard.tv, or at editor@motherboard.tv.

As usual, please send your pitches with a proposed headline, deck, three to four sentence description that does not consist of a series of questions, word count, and deadline.