Geek Week: E-voting experts and nymphomaniacs wanted, inquire within
(This entry originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely I met a gin-soaked barroom queen…. While I was digging through the Net looking for the skinny on Sequoia...
View ArticleData security meets disco fever
Seductive Asian agents, wayward Brits, purloined Blackberries -- it sounds like a LeCarre novel, but it's really a true story. Cringely dives deep into a sex/spy scandal of Olympian proportions and...
View ArticleGeek Week: China cheats on ages, spy controversy rages
What do Chinese gymnasts and FBI agents have in common? They believe laws (and/or regulations) are made to be broken.
View ArticleAll the best cowboys have Chinese spies
By now you’ve probably read about GhostNet, the vast spy network that was uncovered after the office of the Dalai Lama asked researchers at the University of Toronto to examine their computer networks...
View ArticleCyber Wars: Turn out the lights, the party’s over
Is the power grid under cyber attack? US spooks say yes. Better hunker down before Russia or China pull the plug.
View ArticleObama taps and other clap trap, redux
Flames are raging here in Cringeville after my post about Glenn Beck and the Obama 'conspiracy' to take over your computer. Here's some more fuel for the fire.
View ArticleWhen cams attack; the Webcamgate plot thickens
I knew my story about the Lower Merion School District spying on its students via their Web cams would get a rise out of the Cringeville population, and I wasn’t disappointed. Since I posted the piece,...
View ArticleWikileaks: Yet another ‘enemy of the state’
I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that’s pretty wild. It accuses the US government of deliberately trying to take the whistle-blower site down two years ago. As proof,...
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