We're told that digital security is a cat and mouse game between computer geniuses, but the reality is a lot less impressive and sadder than we're led to believe.

While most apps you use today collect a lot of data, TikTok goes far beyond normal logging and location services, and straight into the realm of spyware.

With the EARN IT bill, politicians are unwittingly and stubbornly putting us at greater risk from criminals and terrorists while insisting they're just trying to protect us.

Resistance to Huawei's technology being implemented across the world for new 5G networks isn't xenophobia or tech feudalism. It's a sober stance based on China's behavior.

Law enforcement agencies can't wait to deploy facial recognition AI in daily policing, and pressuring lawmakers to get out of their way. But their zeal for face-seeking AI can easily backfire.

In the next ten years or so, your internet experience will be the same as today. But that internet may be built on complex quantum interactions instead of bits and bytes flying between routers and servers.

Gadgets connected to the internet and controlled by apps are everywhere, even in things that don't need to be linked global communication networks. Unfortunately, they're not working out well for us...

Threatened by the open, permissive architecture of the internet, Russia is doing a dry run at building its own. If it succeeds, the effects on the global economy and geopolitics would be far-reaching and unsettling.

Australian lawmakers stunned the country's techies by passing a law requiring them to help law enforcement snoop on encrypted data on request, and putting e-commerce and basic digital security at risk.

District Attorneys are going to try mandating encryption backdoors again and refuse to understand why it can't be done without cratering the modern economy.

As we're living our lives online, we have to adjust to the idea that what we do in private might become public and act accordingly.

Foreign policy wonks want tech companies to battle censorship with the devices they sell to foreign countries. Unfortunately, they can't defeat math, even for a noble cause.

If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.

Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.

Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.