The concept of a connected home, while seemingly modern, has roots in early 20th-century futurism. The dream of automated, intelligent living spaces captured the imagination […]

Seeking refuge from commercialism on the Web, more people are turning back the technological clock to rediscover the Internet’s once-vibrant spirit of community. They’re going […]

From the May 2002 issue of PC World magazine Maintaining a computer is much like maintaining a marriage–healthy ones require both regular attention and occasional […]

The evolution of a right to privacy parallels the development of the humanist tradition. A right of privacy is predicated on the belief that each […]

In our fast-paced world, sometimes even the rapid response of e-mail is not fast enough. You have no way of knowing if the person you […]

What is encryption? Encryption garbles your data by using irreversible mathematical functions. It is simply the encoding of data so that it cannot be read […]

All firewalls are meant to block unauthorized attempts to access a PC from the outside. But many legitimate applications running on your computer open it […]

You should encrypt your e-mail for the same reason that you don’t write all of your correspondence on the back of a post card. E-mail […]

ICSA Labs Virus Prevalence Survey 2001 found that 83% of viruses are transmitted via e-mail. Email borne viruses pose an extreme threat to you or […]

The Western intellectual tradition establishes a set of individual rights and duties in society. It focuses on an individual and his or her society’s ends. […]

In 1672 Massachusetts introduced the first copyright law in what was to become the United States of America when it prohibited the making of reprints […]