How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither Opinion Game knows game. Thus it came as little surprise that Norton's consumer security software not only sprouted a cryptominer that slurps your computer's life essence and skims a cut, but that it's hard to turn it off …
It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373 Opinion Three things on the morning news reliably ruin breakfast for socially aware technogeeks.... [...]
Terms and conditions apply, and that’s a good thing Opinion Personal data is the oil of the internet. The great engines of Facebook and Google pump it relentlessly, burning it at will to power their marketing monetisation magic. The pollution it creates in broken privacy, shattered politics and …
Cupertino can see things you people wouldn't believe Opinion For a company built around helping people communicate, Apple sure has problems talking to folk. It pole-vaulted itself feet first into the minefield of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), saying that it was going to be checking everybody's images whether …
If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab Column Back in October, a call by spy agencies to weaken end-to-end encryption "because of the children" provoked a bit of analysis on how many times UK Home Secretaries had banged the same drum. All …
One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints Column Fans of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy know how top military secrets are extracted from the enemy. Senior figures are turned in operations run by the …
Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it Column You will have noticed that Apple just pushed MacOS under the wolves, thrown it to the bus and left it hanging out to dry like a post-Brexit fishing net.... [...]
We are all human beings, we live in a community, and everything we do affects others Column The trouble with good ideas is that, taken together, they can be very bad. It's a good idea to worry about supply chain malware injection – ask SolarWinds – and a good idea to …
It's still totally bananas, though Column One of the many joys of blockchain is that it generates even more heat online than a Chinese Bitcoin mine pumps into the atmosphere. This month's posterchild is the NFT, the Non-Fungible Token, which is seen by all the right-thinking fold as practically …
Time to fix those legacy evils, though.... right? Column It is the monster which corrupts all it touches. It is an energy-sucking vampire that thrives on the pain it promotes. It cannot be killed, but grows afresh as each manifestation outdoes the last in awfulness and horror. It is …
The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too Column It is not good form to ruin people's online privacy. It is especially bad form if you're in a position of authority when you do this. It goes beyond bad form altogether if you're the Department for Education …
The Department for Education needs to learn its lesson too Column It is not good form to ruin people's online privacy. It is especially bad form if you're in a position of authority when you do this. It goes beyond bad form altogether if you're the Department for Education …