Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Lukasz Olejnik| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000

Web pages are increasingly powerful—asking for notifications, webcam access, or location—but this great power comes with great vulnerabilities.

Credit to Author: Caitlin Kelly| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:30:30 +0000

Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it’s easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent.

Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Apps like FitBit and Apple Health collect some of the most sensitive data you have. Here’s how to control what they can see, and what they can do with it.

Credit to Author: Klint Finley| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Nearly four years after Brave proposed paying users to surf the web, that vision is finally coming to the iPhone.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:28:18 +0000

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again.

Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

It’s much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it’s possible. 

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Keybase exists to keep things safe online. And it doesn’t use 2FA to do it.

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:08:17 +0000

Flock Safety boasts that its cameras caused a dramatic drop in crime in one Georgia county, but experts say it’s not so simple.

Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Both. Yes, authoritarians have co-opted tech. But the story is far from over.