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NSA & cell phone tracking
Steve Henn Jul 27, 2011
This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....
Head of country's cyber agency resigns
Steve Henn Jul 26, 2011
The Department of Defense doesn't want to talk about why Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US- CERT...
Another Way to Elect a President
Steve Henn Jul 25, 2011
If the Philadelphia's constitutional convention were held today, what would elections look like? Americans Elect are hoping to use the net to...
Government layoffs at computer centers
John Moe Jul 20, 2011
The US government will close 800 of its 2000 computer data centers. New technology, like cloud computing and spreading the data crunching load...
The US government makes the most requests of Google
John Moe Jun 28, 2011
Google says it received 4,601 requests for information on users from the US government in the last six months of 2010. That's more than double the...
LulzSec and Anonymous declare war on all governments
John Moe Jun 20, 2011
So who are you rooting for: the entire sociopolitical order as we know it or nameless hacker groups? Well, pick one, because apparently war is...
Need help naming your baby? Social Security is here.
John Moe May 23, 2011
The government agency has compiled popular baby names for the past 130 years and built a baby naming app called Baby Name Playroom. You can sort in...
Your new online realtor: Barack Obama
John Moe May 16, 2011
We know he's busy but he would love to show you around some properties. It'll be fun, we'll go out on Saturday. Meet at Starbucks first, make a day...
Open data on the chopping block
John Moe Apr 19, 2011
As Congress fights over how to balance the budget, the fate of government transparency and whether data will continue to remain available online...
Law enforcement officials are looking at your emails
John Moe Apr 13, 2011
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian is out with a new paper that shows that law enforcement officials are increasingly asking for access to...
