A bill to outlaw certain forms of spyware is making its way through the House of Representatives. But if you think it will actually prevent spyware from getting on your computer, you have a lot to learn about government.
Apple
Why I won’t buy an iPod
Posted: April 15, 2007 8:12 am
I’m in the market for a new portable media player, since my current one is getting rather old, not to mention full. Naturally, I looked at the current crop of iPods. They’re excellent hardware and work well. But I won’t buy one, not because of the iPod itself, but because of Apple’s no-privacy policy.
Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend
Posted: March 8, 2007 5:32 pm
This year, Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States this weekend. You’re probably ready, now that you know about it, but your computer probably isn’t.
NSA provided security help for Windows, Mac OS X
Posted: January 9, 2007 5:11 pm
Updated: January 10, 2007 11:53 am
The National Security Agency has provided assistance to Microsoft and Apple in securing their Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, according to a report published Tuesday.
Advanced online privacy protection
Posted: April 17, 2006 3:51 pm
Updated: April 17, 2006 5:06 pm
The U.S. government seems to have a dizzying array of programs, both already running and in the pipeline, to gather vast amounts of data on virtually everyone, store that data for who knows how long, and do who knows what with it. One thing they’re doing is data mining, looking for “suspicious” patterns in the data trying to find potential threats. Not only does data mining not work, there’s a chance it could identify you, even if you aren’t doing anything wrong.
Other countries are already putting in place even more Orwellian surveillance on their own citizens. And some countries, as we all know, arrest, torture and kill dissidents or anyone they just don’t like.
Fortunately, there are things you can do to protect yourself from all of these threats.
The role of assurance in security
Posted: December 13, 2005 4:05 pm
Updated: December 14, 2005 10:46 pm
When someone from the National Security Agency talks, I listen. The NSA is one of the government’s most secretive agencies. It has to be, as it deals in SIGINT — signals intelligence. Specifically it has the dual mission of intercepting the communications of other countries while devising methods of protecting U.S. government communications from interception. And recently, someone from the NSA not only talked, but talked a lot.
Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac
Posted: September 13, 2005 8:21 am
Updated: November 4, 2009 8:16 pm
Security expert Winn Schwartau finally got completely sick of Windows. “Things used to work,” he said, referring to the pre-Windows days of the 1960s through the 1980s. “And this is exactly why I am coming to subscribe to the view that indeed, the WinTel hegemony is a threat to the national economic security of any organization or nation-state that relies [on] it.”
So he switched his entire company to Macintosh.
DRM is not your friend: Online music stores restrict, not enable
Posted: September 1, 2005 4:04 pm
If you really want your music “any way you want it,” you’re best off buying a CD.
Kutztown, Pa. school district: Downloading iChat is a felony
Posted: August 9, 2005 11:54 pm
Updated: September 2, 2005 8:44 am
Thirteen high school students in Kutztown, Pa., have been charged with computer trespass, a third degree felony, for simply trying to use the laptops the school district forced on them.
