Snowden. PRISM. XKey­score. It seems that you can’t turn around these days without reading another story about government surveillance. Edward Snowden is the former defense contractor who blew the whistle on PRISM, the National Security Agency’s secret electronic surveillance data mining program. XKeyscore is PRISM’s backbone, the software that collects the data, including emails and […]

At the beginning of a new year, it’s good to reflect and muse over the stories that made the previous year. The highlights and lowlights that inundated our RSS feeds, impacted our work and caused a hubbub in our daily lives. Here’s our list of the top seven technology and IT stories that shaped 2011. […]

If you haven’t already heard, there’s a new internet blacklist bill working its way through Congress that, in my opinion, will break the internet permanently and irreparably if it passes. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would allow government-mandated DNS filtering, which basically means you won’t be able to access a site through a search […]