The other day I was on Facebook and a chat window popped up from a college friend of mine.

Bob: Hey there. How are u doing?
Sharon: ok. you?
Bob: Am not too good. Im in some kind of deep mess...

Idaho, where I live, likes to brag when it makes lists such as "best places to live," "best places to start a business," etc.

Now we've made another list: we're the most spammed.

According to...

Remember Terry Childs (http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219413.html)? He was the network administrator for the city of San Francisco who -- claiming he was protecting the city government's computer...

To be sure, there are all sorts of methodological issues with this study. I am not a trained statistician, but I have had coursework in it. My primary concern with this story was not necessarily...

Two students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have learned that it is possible to predict which men in social networks are gay, even if they aren't out, based on who their friends are....

What, you hadn't heard?

"A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a...

Want to do a public records search on email messages from your state legislator?

Chances are, you won't be able to, even with the recent move toward transparency in government...

A group of University of Washington students and professors has developed an application called Vanish that automatically makes data used with it disappear after eight to nine hours.

The...

Some users discovered last week that Amazon has the capability to remove books from their Kindle electronic reading devices, even though they were bought, paid for, downloaded, and in the users'...

me? what would you like me to read? glad you liked it!

Yahoo! announced (http://ycorpblog.com/2009/06/30/serving-up-greener-data-centers/) this week that it would build what it said what would be the greenest, most energy-efficient data center in the...

Raising privacy and civil liberties issues, job applicants to the city of Bozeman are not only required to list all their social media accounts, but their passwords as well.

“Please list any and...

Remember the 14 million missing email messages from the White House under President George W. Bush? Remember (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3815.html) the (albeit flawed) court order (issued days...

President Barack Obama will be able to continue to use a personal digital assistant like the Blackberry he used during the campaign, which naturally required security improvements. But more...

The Bush administration was ordered this week (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090114/order_20090114.pdf) to take a number of steps intended to help preserve email messages sent between 2003 and...

It's an annual event: Churches and other facilities putting out creches and other displays for Christmas find parts of it -- typically the baby Jesus -- stolen, with both a financial and a...

She pleaded guilty because she has unspecified health problems and she didn't want to deal with it any more, apparently. She isn't planning to teach again anyway.

and airplanes.

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3369.html

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some version of Symantec. I can look up the exact name if you wish.

Ever had some computer malware spit a bunch of porn onto your screen?

Now imagine it happening in a roomful of schoolchildren.

Now imagine it could send you to jail -- for forty years.
...

If you ever had a big brother, you know that the same guy who gave you noogies could also protect you from a bully at school -- but you had to take the bad with the good.

'Big Brother,' in...

In another case of a potentially rogue government programmer, the investigator found more than he bargained for: tens of thousands of pornographic images of children.

As with San Francisco city...

Last Saturday, Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin held a rally in Los Angeles in the Home Depot Center, and the California Democratic Party rented a giant electronic...

Effective Wednesday, October 1, each business in Nevada must encrypt customers’ personal information when it is transmitted outside the business’ secure network, such as when it's transmitted over...

We were all treated this week to a lovely example of why it's a good idea to use standard email for government business (or corporate business, for that matter).

First, Republican vice...

While the full story behind San Francisco city government computer engineer Terry Childs (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2842.html) hasn't yet come out, one thing is certain: the mainstream media...

Clarification: Childs was holding passwords to the network routers.

Claiming he was protecting San Francisco city government's computer system from incompetent coworkers, computer engineer Terry Childs...

San Francisco is implementing a wireless network using transceivers on the ground that theoretically will help drivers find parking spaces in the congested city.

The technology, called Streetline...