Google filing says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) As if Edward Snowden hasn't done enough to highlight how vulnerable electronic communications are to surveillance, Google has made it clear that people who send or receive e-mail via Gmail should not expect their messages to remain private.
Psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness.
Today, sitting down to my Twitter feed, I saw a new link to Dr. Alex Berezow’s old piece on why psychology cannot call itself a science.
Secure E-mail Services Shuttered over Fears of Government PRISM Reprisals
Revelations of the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM program continue to have worldwide ripple effects. Nearly two months after U.S. federal prosecutors charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property for blowing the lid off of the clandestine surveillance program, the company that secured Snowden’s electronic communications with journalists and international [...]
Hackers Crack the iPhone, and AntiVirus Software Won’t Help
Search Apple’s app Store for iPhone or iPad antivirus software and you’ll find only a handful of security programs designed to defend these iOS devices from malicious software (malware).
Hacking the Internet of Everything
Soon, nearly every device will be online. That is both a beautiful and a dangerous thing
Ex-USAF Chief Scientist Likens U.S. Cybersecurity Challenge to Whac-A-Mole
Mark Maybury holds forth on fending off cyber attackers, keeping humans in the loop during drone missions and outfitting pilots with computerized Band-Aids
Weiner’s Wiener? Too perfect to be a coincidence.
In case you haven’t heard, Carlos Danger — AKA shamed former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner — recently got in trouble once again for exposing his infamous…well, his infamous wiener.
How to Be an E-Mail Survivalist
To avoid being the target of big-data snooping, run your own e-mail server
"Corkscrew" Light Could Turbocharge the Internet
Different-shaped beams could be used to increase fiber-optic capacity, thereby easing online congestion
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt, Part 4]
Spammers deploy malware to hijack unwary machines and use them as purveyors of junk messaging. Read this last installment about how the history of the Internet coincides with the history of spam
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt, Part 3]
Porous barriers to various forms of electronic intrusion are traversed by either menial human labor or automated botnets. Read about this carnival of oddities in the third excerpt of a chapter on the riveting history of spam
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt, Part 2]
Software filters required that spammers get devious. Learn in this new segment about using great works of literature to circumvent the intricate filtering schemes of the best software engineers