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 [...]

There is no question that the internet is full of some wonderful things. Pound for pound, the great ways the internet has made our lives better, improved communication and provided information to people is profoundly good. But there is also some ugly out there in cyberspace. We know about the ugly in the form [...]

Instant messaging or IM is one of the many fun things about the internet that lets you communicate with friends or family members almost as fast as you would if you were talking to them. In an instant messaging conversation, your friend sees your message as soon as you type it and you see [...]

Whistleblowers are a breed that do a valuable service for society even if what they do is controversial. A whistleblower spills the beans about what is going on inside a company, a government or a political campaign so people who like to cover up their dirty little secrets can’t get away with it.
One of [...]

The one thing you can say about Google is that if someone has a great idea, they will try to get in on it. This is not to say that Google is an evil empire. They do a lot of cool stuff for everybody on the internet. But like most huge companies, if someone [...]

The Apple App Store for its IPhone has become a serious new kind of cyberspace marketplace. So when the lords of that marketplace, Apple Computers decided to carve out a segment of it just for themselves, that smells of dirty pool. The niche that Apple has carved out for themselves is the GPS location [...]

You would think one of the advantages of mobile computing is that you could get away from the onslaught of spyware and other nasty cyberspace viruses that are the curse of using the internet. But spyware makers are perfectly capable and willing to create ways to download spyware even to your Blackberry.
In a way, [...]

There was a time when Microsoft and Internet Explorer ruled the internet world. They had it made in the shade, as we used to say. If you used the internet, you quite simply did so using Internet Explorer. In terms of technology, that was a long time ago. Or it was, as Microsoft might [...]

When we think of cyber crimes and identity theft, the valuable that is most often stolen is credit card information. The green movement has created another kind of valuable that hackers are going after in countries where the cap and trade laws have created a very tempting commodity. That commodity is emissions certificates.
Many countries [...]

It seems that the war between the communist block nations and the west should have blown over by now. But recent documents that have surfaced some pretty tricky spying that China has been doing on Great Britain tell another story. They are up to their old tricks in very new ways. Using some insidious [...]

The Catholic faith is one of the oldest denominations in Christianity. As such, the basics work pretty well. You give a Catholic priest a gothic building, an organ, some bibles and a congregation and he should pretty much have everything he needs. Well don’t leave out a fingerprint scanning machine. That may become a [...]