From the start, 27B has been devoted to investigating all things threatening -- from the icky details of NSA surveillance, to the shocking revelation that the internet is a series of tubes. But we've been haunted by a dark secret.
Namely, if you haven't seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil, you haven't a clue what our name means. So we're bowing to popular pressure and changing it.
Along with the name change, we're expanding our threat profile to cover that most alarming of American spectacles, the national election. Reporter Sarah Lai Stirland, formerly of the National Journal's Technology Daily, will be blogging the internet side of the 2008 campaigns, and Wired News veteran Kim Zetter is joining Threat Level to cover the controversies, lawsuits and glitches built into electronic voting machines.
We'll also be adding some new features in the coming weeks, and Ryan is thinking up a bunch of Threat Level-themed puns to sprinkle in his posts in place of obscure Brazil references. As a gift to our loyal readers, we're keeping 27bStroke6 in our URL to confuse and confound future generations.
