How Much Freedom Is Expendable in the Name of Security?
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Imbedding security chips in possessions and pets is nothing new. Chipping people, however, has Orwellian overtones that angers civil libertarians and conservatives alike.
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Would you give up some privacy to save money?
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Air travelers face a new screening process before they step on a plane, Secure Flight. Civil liberties advocates say it's better than CAPPS II, but aren't completely sold yet. By Ryan Singel.
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You may not have to pay as much as you're paying to protect your home.
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The problem isn't just silos and walled gardens &#151; our names for choiceless dependency on one company's goods and services. The problem is the defaulted belief system that gives us silos and walled gardens in the first place.  In that system suppliers believe that the best customers and users are captive ones. Customers and users believe that a free market naturally restricts choices to silos. It's a value sytem in which VCs like to ask &quot;What's your lock-in?&quot;. Even in 2007, long after the Net has become established as an everyday necessity, we still take for granted the assumption that living in a &quot;free market&quot; is to choose among jail cells. May the best prison win. read more
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U.S. News & World Report - When it comes to terrorists' most valuable weapons, passports and visas probably rank higher than bullets and bombs. Without such documents, terrorists can't easily travel to train, conduct reconnaissance, or prepare for an attack. "They are the greatest tools that terrorists have in their arsenal," says Asa Hutchinson, under secretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security. That fact became clear in the aftermath of 9/11, when it was discovered that all 19 of the hijackers had made it into the United States with doctored or suspicious  ...
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Be afraid: There's no such thing as a secure network.
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To see the e-mail I get every day from readers about security issues is to develop a deep discomfort with the state of computing today. Keeping a Windows PC safe can demand a high degree of vigilance -- if cars needed the same constant care and feeding, the Beltway would revert to a country byway.
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A provision buried deep in the defense authorization bill passed by Congress this week could release hundreds of millions of dollars now beyond the reach of victims of terrorist attacks struggling to collect damages from foreign governments. But experts say it also may undermine one of the...
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There's a good chance you'll become disabled for a while. Are you protected?
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&quot;Everything is a trade-off, and the techniques used to find the bad guys will be balanced by our democracy and drive for rights of privacy,&quot; said security expert Evan Scott.
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Enterprises may spend great amounts on security, but there are excellent free downloads out there that do a great job on the threats every user faces.
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Duty free sales will suffer from the stringent security restrictions imposed on in-flight hand luggage, experts said, but as the anti-terror measures stay, the duty-free lobby is already eyeing up ways around them.
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What happens in the online world can be a freeing experience. Sometimes too freeing, so be careful out there. Commentary by Gina Lynn.
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The hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer? Perhaps not.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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So you've decided that want to travel to The Capital of Teh Free World to see the sights, and possibly engage in a Constitutionally Protected Protest. You've also decided that it would more convenient, or less expensive, to drive. There are a few things you should be aware of before you come to our fine metro region.