As the Ashley Madison hack demonstrated, Web companies can't guarantee privacy. There was a time when people had secrets. Men could discreetly dispose of receipts for flowers, drinks or jewelry, and a

Information about you is free for the taking on the Web. A new crop of entrepreneurs wants you to collect. nless your name is Oprah Winfrey or Warren Buffett, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone to pay

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In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, decentralized collective of computers. The personal-computer revolution that followed built upon that foundation, stoking optimism encapsulated by John

ATM It’s a common wisecrack around the criminal community. This whole stealing ATM PINs thing would be a lot simple if a gadget would just do all the work. Sounds like a crazy dream, right? After all,

The Federal Communications Commission's new Chairman Ajit Pai just announced a proposal to gut net neutrality. Net neutrality is the freedom to say, watch and make what we want online without interference

The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing

There's something going on inside the intelligence communities in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it is. Consider these three data points. One: someone, probably a country's intelligence

Social engineering is the practice of learning and obtaining valuable information by exploiting human vulnerabilities. It is an art of deception that is considered to be vital for a penetration tester

"Surveillance Is the Business Model of the Internet" Under surveillance capitalism, we’ve lost control of our devices and our data – but there is a way back. Interview with Bruce Schneier by