The idea is that a corporation or government agency could influence public opinion by using computer programs to flood the social networks with comments. In Cory Doctorow’s recent novel Homeland,… Read more »
In a hilarious but disturbing article in Slate Kieran Healy demonstrates how the sort of “metadata” that Verizon (and presumably every other phone company) is required to turn over to… Read more »
From Ars Technica: a chilling demonstration that even passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” can be cracked if the web site uses a weak hashing function. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ Takeaways: If you can remember it,… Read more »
A word to the wise: before you download that smartphone app for your favorite candidate you should read The Register: Don’t download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you… Read more »
There are endless competitors for this, but surely some sort of major stupidity award is due to the Dollar Rent-a-Car password system as described by Geoff Kuenning: But the winner… Read more »
A bizarre crime story with interesting computer security implications was revealed today when Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of the online news site Reddit and a Fellow at the Harvard University… Read more »
i just started playing with Google+ and I noticed that by default the list of members of your Circles is visible to everyone on the web. This is similar to… Read more »
..or at least an extremely secure password change method. (Actual production code.) UPDATE: It’s hard to believe that this code isn’t malicious, but it’s just possible that it was put… Read more »
More and more people are saying that you should log out of Facebook as soon as you are done. If you stay logged in and go to another site with… Read more »
I can’t give proper credit to the author of this piece. He may be an expert on computer security, but he doesn’t seem to know much about how to set… Read more »
