The concept of personal privacy has evolved dramatically since its initial legal recognition in American jurisprudence during the late 19th century. What was once simply […]
Privacy
IoT Security: Protecting Your Smart Home Devices
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 […]
USENET (Newsgroups)
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 […]
Tools For Trouble-Free Computing
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 Right To Privacy
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 […]
Instant Messaging
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 […]
Hard Drive Encryption
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 […]
Email Protection
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 […]
Email Antivirus
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 […]
Current Challenges
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. […]