Aside from the grim satisfaction of hauling criminals before the Law, I'm liking today's news of indictments of eleven men on data-theft charges because it provides something that many security folk crave...

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's got a fun and only moderately overwrought feature today on the DNS cache-poisoning vuln, and yet some people are going to pitch a fit...

Nina Paley's got a beautiful and sad story to tell...

I ask that everyone who reads this -- colleagues, tech friends, everyone who has cause to speak of such things -- promise that we are dropping the phrase "spam kings." Now.

In a day where (wearing my editing hat) I had to strive to keep clear the shenanigans of multiple jail-bound spam "kings," I appreciate Washington state's efforts to keep us all snickering...

Your tax dollars and mine would like to think that the third time is indeed the charm for killing off COPA, the smugly misnamed Child Online Protection Act. There's a lot of history there...

Exercise your most sacred right as a citizen, or just tap some screens and hope for the best -- how do you mean to spend Election Day? Not so fast, New Yorkers...

Did you see this video? I confess I'm not the sort of gadgeteer that stands on line for the newest iPhone, but it's sweet to see this local-news reporter get his comeuppance...

Nothing, and I mean nothing, is going to make the FISA situation all right with anyone fond of our Bill of Rights. But in a stunning development, it may be that the Federal Communications Commission is poised to act for the good of the Net-using public...

Is it just me or is Twitter suddenly experiencing a much, much heavier spam deluge than usual? And how evil is it for the spam brigades to target a service than can barely function under *normal* traffic loads?

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Oh, you say your business tools are behind the times? Look what the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns have revealed...

I'm a couple of days late on this, so it may be that you have already had your own personal ears pinned back by Ivan Krstić's positively harrowing post on the pit that the One Laptop Per Child project has become. Some of the highlights...

Pop quiz: The RIAA's claim last week that digital rights management (DRM) is the Wave Of The Future was...

Your Kevin Mitnicks, your Frank Abagnales, your Jerome Kerviels -- what are we supposed to do with our hackers, especially once they've done their time?

We've heard repeatedly about Facebook's pitiful privacy protections, but thanks to the BBC we have a blow-by-blow example of just how easy it is for even an ordinary programmer to hop on the social-networking service and start skimming info...