“I have been hacked; taking evasive maneuvers. Much apology, my friends,” wrote Rocky Barbanica, a producer for Rackspace Hosting, an Internet storage firm, in one such note. Mr. Barbanica sent that out last month after realizing he had sent messages to 250 Twitter followers with a link and the sentence, “Are you in this picture?” [...]

They’re building laptops with hand-crank generators for kids in third world countries. You know what this means, right? The next generation of Nigerian spammers is going to look a lot like Popeye. – Unknown Not to worry, those laptops are running a relatively secure operating system and, while amusing, the Popeye Scenario isn’t a particularly [...]

Activities conducted on information networks have a proven history of potentiating real-world violence: the internet is no different, though the ways in which civilians – often unwittingly – participate represent new threats to individual and national security. Consider the vast amount of information you’ve willingly provided to a corporate-owned Human Terrain Mapping System, a recent [...]

The site promises to deliver some utility you (or an unsuspecting member of your family) might find useful – perhaps it’s a collection of new smiley-faces to be included in chat, perhaps it’s an cartoon engine for creating cutesy avatars… whatever it is, it apparently includes a healthy dose of eyes-glazing-over legalese before it happily [...]