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Lockdowns highlight the need to repair devices ourselves
Brands create obstacles to fixing our devices affordably or at all. And with service centers closed during the pandemic, consumers are left with no options.
Here are the skills you need for a career in cybersecurity
So you want to get into cybersecurity? Here are the skills and certifications that could help land your next job.
Face masks do help evade facial recognition tech—for now
A study by the U.S. government found that even some highly accurate algorithms failed to match photos of masked individuals to their pictures up to 50% of the time.
How (and why) to keep multiple online identities separate
To keep an online persona separate from, and unconnected to, a legal identity, it’s important to understand which identifiers are commonly used to de-anonymize a person.
To combat fake pandemic news, countries beef up censorship
These new measures suppressing press and internet freedoms are ripe for abuse.
The CIA was secretly granted much more freedom to carry out...
Since 2018, the agency has been permitted to approve its own operations, no longer needing White House approval.
Modern-day encryption has ancient cryptography beginnings
How to communicate privately has fascinated mathematicians for millennia, possibly as far back as ancient Egypt. Greek strategists would...
Big changes to data protection laws in the EU and Brazil
A key ruling in the EU and Brazil's version of the GDPR means privacy safeguards just got strengthened for hundreds of millions of people.
Here’s how firewalls work
In engineering and architecture, firewalls will stop the spread of the flames and contain the damage. Server firewalls follow the same rules.
New semester, new surveillance: How schools plan to monitor students
Amid a pandemic, schools that decide to reopen might implement various invasive methods of monitoring students.
