Another Worry In An Already Bad Summer For The NSA Ross Slutsky | Philadelphia VOA intern Ross Slutsky occasionally writes about emerging digital technology issues for “Digital Frontiers” from Philadelphia In recent weeks, much attention has been paid to the privacy implications of the NSA’s surveillance programs, and rightly so. Now comes a new issue. […]
Caught In The PRISM
Posted June 7th, 2013 at 2:29 pm (UTC-4)
The NSA’s Internet Surveillance Program And You Doug Bernard | Washington DC This has not been a good week for keeping secrets. Late Wednesday, it was revealed that America’s National Security Agency, or NSA, got secret court permission to access millions of telephone records of the Verizon telecommunications company’s domestic customers. The following day, the […]
License To Print
Posted May 14th, 2013 at 4:16 pm (UTC-4)
How The 3-D Printing Boom May Run Afoul Of The Law Doug Bernard | Washington DC UPDATE: May 15, 2013: This article originally stated that Sen. Schumer “wants to ban not just the printing of the gun, but the CAD files themselves.” While it’s accurate to say Sen. Schumer wants an update to the 1988 […]
Boston, Privacy And The Limits Of Crowd-Sourcing
Posted April 23rd, 2013 at 12:26 pm (UTC-4)
What The Web Got Right, And Wrong, In The Marathon Bombings Doug Bernard | Washington DC On March 16th, 2013, five weeks before the Boston marathon bombings, Sunil Tripathi disappeared. A Brown University student on leave from study, Tripathi was last seen in his Providence, Rhode Island apartment at around 11am. About 20 minutes later, […]
Cuba Experiments with Internet Speed, Not Freedom
Posted January 25th, 2013 at 5:07 pm (UTC-4)
Kate Woodsome | Washington DC Cuba, as seen through reflective puddles, windows and windshields. Photo by Zoriah. Whenever my Internet connection is slow, I try to imagine I’m using a typewriter so that I’m pleasantly surprised, rather than infuriated, by the pace and technology. It’s a mind game I learned years ago when I lived […]
The Year Anonymous Disappeared
Posted January 7th, 2013 at 3:23 pm (UTC-4)
Just What Happened to the Internet’s Great Terror? Doug Bernard | Washington DC Prediction is a fool’s game. Just ask anyone leaving Las Vegas. Or Nate Silver. Generally speaking, we don’t play the “Top Ten 2013” list-type entries that populate blogs and other journalism this time of year. There aren’t many things about the future […]
John McAfee’s Internet Meltdown – UPDATE
Posted November 20th, 2012 at 2:54 pm (UTC-4)
Has The Software And Security Pioneer Gone “Bonkers”? Doug Bernard | Washington DC UPDATE December 3, 1400 UTC: There are conflicting reports and rumors swirling whether Belize police have actually captured John McAfee, or if he remains at large. On December1, someone posted a short note on the “Who Is McAfee?” blog. “We have received […]
The Coming Of The Mahdi Virus
Posted July 19th, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC-4)
A New Computer Worm Hits Iran And The Mideast Doug Bernard | Washington DC Computer networks across the Middle East once again are being hit by a nasty computer worm that seems intent on stealing as much information about users as possible, all under a cloak of hidden digital code. Digital security analysts this week […]
Flame War
Posted May 30th, 2012 at 2:13 pm (UTC-4)
New Alarm Bells, And Old Questions, About The Flame Virus And Cyber-War Doug Bernard | Washington DC There’s a new Big Bad lurking out there on the Internet, and it goes by the name of “Flame.” But what we don’t know about it may be more important than what we do. Tuesday morning, computer security […]
