“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…
I love technology, but the day I walk out to my car and it demands bitcoin ransom before it will even start, might be the day that living off the grid starts to sound like a plan. Not a plan for me necessarily, but a plan. Seriously though, this is why the whole IoT security…
On one hand, good for Google for recognizing the blight that internet advertising has become. On the other, can we trust a company who’s main source of income is web-based advertising to be the same one that decides which ads get shown and which ones don’t? I’m a little uneasy with that. “Google will introduce…
The British website internetmatters.org is a great place for parents, English and otherwise, to learn about keeping kids safe online, and educating themselves about what kinds of issues those children may be faced with. But don’t take it from me… We’re a not-for-profit organisation that has a simple purpose – to help keep children safe…
I read this recent quote from an article about Ev Williams this week and something seemed oddly familiar about it: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like…
“(NEWSER) – It’s possible the experts in attendance Tuesday at a cybersecurity conference in the Netherlands didn’t know what to make of 11-year-old Reuben Paul when the sixth-grader from Texas took the stage. But by the end of his presentation, they were tweeting compliments like “respect” and “the future of cybersecurity,” Mashable reports. According to…