The newspaper has reported that the Justice Department is weighing how to move forward with an ongoing investigation that has run into trouble because of the service’s encryption. A federal judge had okayed a wiretap order during the course of the investigation, but because the communications being tapped is encrypted, they can’t see what’s being…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people, are being threatened by some faulty logic. First, it was social networks and online communication, where all sorts of mean behavior was being blamed on anonymity: After people-rating…
According to recent research, not really. It isn’t any more of a drain on productivity than the same old things we did before the Internet. That’s not the only surprising thing you may find in this article: The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work On what we waste the most time doing…
“It’s one aspect of a tech policy problem that has been plaguing us for at least 25 years: technologists and policymakers don’t understand each other, and they inflict damage on society because of that. But it’s worse today. The speed of technological progress makes it worse. And the types of technology — especially the current…
This is an important lesson for photographers, or anyone traveling with technology of any kind. I know I am paranoid about having my camera bag swiped when I’m traveling around with that, and just as paranoid when I’m hauling all of my tech stuff for work! How I Had My Gear and 3 Months of…
From a British study on the dangers of kids being approached by dangerous people online, I noticed this little nugget: “The report, called Digital Dangers, found that nearly half of young people living at home say their parents only know some of their online activities. And one in ten said their parents knew nothing about…