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We've noted for decades that U.S. telecom security and privacy standards aren't great. T-Mobile has been hacked so many times in the last five years it's easy to lose count. AT&am ...

If you've been following the Kickstarter campaign for our new card game, One Billion Users, then you know we're not quite on track on to hit our goal -- but we haven't given up! We ...

Those of you who still believe the nation's courts are capable of handling the constitutionally-guaranteed redress of grievances, prepare to be disabused of those notions. While the courts ma ...

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The Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida thinks (or, at least, thought) it could make a dent in crime by engaging in "broken windows policing" by way of an Excel spreadsheet.

There are lots of ways for an individual person or entity to err when it comes to intellectual property enforcement such that it negatively impacts a website or business. But if you want to get rea ...

There are few Senators quite as pathetic as Richard Blumenthal. He has a long history of an ignorant vendetta against tech companies (even pre-dating his time in the Senate), and he never ever both ...

Four years years ago AT&T, a company that, for years, cheapened out on upgrading its broadband lines to fiber, effectively stopped selling DSL. While that's understandable given the limitations ...

Confidential informants (CI) are considered useful to law enforcement investigations, so society is just expected to bear the burden of criminal acts committed by informants in (dubious) furtheranc ...

It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a "super-cycle" year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also ...