Every article on passwords must start by discussing the same subject, so here it is: You’ve chosen a weak password, and deployed it unwisely. This article, however, doesn’t choose password formation as its primary focus. There has been a flurry of activity in the news lately about users who’ve been

Politicians, their staff, and those organizations that support their campaigning efforts should be among the last people to get their hands on American data. This, if nothing else, should be your takeaway from the most recent chapter of the 2016 presidential election. No matter who you’re voting for, (Full disclosure:

There is a smartphone that you can buy for twenty dollars now. You wouldn’t want to buy it — as a phone, it fails horribly in terms of usability and ergonomics — but it embodies the idea of a smartphone in every way. It has a touchscreen, a camera, a

It doesn’t matter where you live, or what time in history you happen to have lived. Whenever something bad happens to your country, your government will react — overreact — in a way that is ultimately counterproductive. Here’s an example:  in 1798, less than ten years after the US constitution

The internet, as many lawmakers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers have discovered to their sorrow, is not a place that is easily governed by rules. Shutting down a service you don’t like only means that within days, a dozen competing entities will grow up to fill the gap. Remember how shutting down

Approximately one-third of successful cyberattacks are accomplished via the compromise of an insecure vendor. This is, to use a technical term, absolutely nutso. Imagine that you’re a large company. You’re doing everything right, in terms of information security. You’ve got three kinds of firewalls, a stable of well-paid analysts, and