Whistleblowers do us all a service. But one Whistleblower company by the name of Cryptome took on the wrong powerful corporate entity when it spilled a lot of sensitive information about that entity. In fact, the backlash for their meddling was they were banned from the internet. Now who in this world is powerful enough [...]

How would you feel it a laptop on the desk in your daughter’s room suddenly "woke up" and the webcam in it started staring at her while she moved around in private? And if the person on the other end of that sneaky webcam was her high school principal, that situation would go far beyond [...]

When you think of those evil genius types who can hack into internet applications or just about anything with an electronic brain, you envision dark shadowy creatures. But at a security conference in Vancouver called CanSecWest, a brilliant technique for taking all that pent up genius for hacking and putting it to work to [...]

When it comes to operating a fully functional internet PC, you simply cannot avoid Adobe. Adobe software is like Microsoft and Google applications in that it is almost impossible to imagine working on the internet without tools from those companies. Now Adobe has something new that it shares with Microsoft. A part of their [...]

When Google introduced their own social network, Google Buzz, they gave it that name because they thought it would create a Buzz of excitement in the social networking world. Instead, "Buzz" stands for the buzz of criticism and the world of hurt that Google is in for putting their vast network of users into [...]

You know, we have air marshals on airplanes for a reason. And their mission to protect passengers while in the air depends on a little bit of secrecy. So is it ok for a socialite starlet to out the air marshal as long as she only uses Twitter to do it? Is it? Well [...]