The question for cybersecurity-minded lawmakers should not be how to control the zero-day market but how to encourage more "white hat" trades and fewer destructive ones.
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
VR headsets could give new life to the Second Life concept-for better or worse.
The celebrated Chinese artist was denied a business visa by the British government.
The legendary tech writer on net neutrality, the FCC, and why Bitcoin is the missing eighth layer of the Internet.
"It appears that an oft-used tool for identifying lawbreakers will be lost if Backpage were to fold," writes federal judge.
With no legal authority to do so, Sheriff Tom Dart threatened to go after Visa and MasterCard if they did not cease doing business with Backpage.com.
The Hacking Team sold many governments-including ours-products to directly target journalists, software developers, and activists for surveillance.
Score one for sex workers, capitalism, and common sense.
Governments Should All "Go Dark" When It Comes to Spying on Their Citizens
The worm was designed to gather intelligence on the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.
Bitcoin is now the only means of paying for adult ads on the popular web classifieds site Backpage.com.
Do we really need the FBI & Homeland Security going after teens who share their girlfriends' boobs on Reddit?
Can Americans' collective wisdom solve our collective problems?
How a cat-loving entrepreneur brought kittens and caffeine to the nation's capital
Minds excels where other popular social networks, particularly Facebook, fail: transparency and protecting user privacy.
The War on Terror is providing plenty of rhetorical ammunition to anti-encryption officials, but they are dangerously wrong.
The natural next step in the evolution of Internet music services
Reporting from outside the courthouse, Kurt Loder caught up with Ross' mother, Lyn, and filmmaker Alex Winter.
...and other topics from DigBoston's recent interview with me
Plaintiffs coerced into prostitution as teens alleged that Backpage was complicit in their trafficking.
The debunked #BaltimoreLootCrew tweets find a new way to feed fearmongering.
Watch the first-ever event devoted to "Internet Independence Day," when the government got out of the business of running the Internet backbone.
With the FCC muscling in, it's more important than ever to remember that cyberspace got great when the government got out.
Google offers a way to view, download, and delete the data its collected on your searches
Senators sneak through SAVE Act as amendment, creating criminal liability for classified-ad sites.
Law named after Aaron Swartz introduced again.
Artists are using new platforms to bypass gatekeepers and grow the comic book industry.
The biggest threat to the Net isn't cable companies. It's government.
As states lunge for dot-com money, Congress threatens to get into the act.
Peer behind the Block Bot!
America is taking a punitive approach to teens who send each other explicit messages-and it's backfiring.
Why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
Why are Edward Snowden's supporters so eager to give government more control over the Internet?
Will recent breakthroughs in computer science make truly free markets a reality?
