It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...Threatpost From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...Slate From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about "Teens, Social Media, and Privacy." As a researcher who's...Danah Boyd | Apophenia From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
Connecting Internet access with freedom of expression and creativity.Stephen B. Wicker, Stephanie M. Santoso From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2013
Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.Peter J. Denning From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2013
I join a group of twenty computer scientists in issuing a report criticizing an FBI plan to require makers of secure communication tools to redesign their systems...Freedom To Tinker From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
The goal of the U.S. patent system is clear: to provide individuals or companies with an incentive to innovate by offering them 20 years of exclusive rights to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2013
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 16, 2013
When the Russian asteroid became a fireball in the air over Chelyabinsk, destroying buildings and injuring hundreds, we were lucky it wasn’t worse.Slate From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2013
Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use.Google Inside Search From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2013
Given that Bitcoin first broke into mainstream attention when Gawker explained how to use it to buy drugs, perhaps the surprise is that it took federal regulators...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2013
We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of drug dealers and spies...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2013