dan tynan on Feb 28 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy
I knew my story about the Lower Merion School District spying on its students via their Web cams would get a rise out of the Cringeville population, and I wasn’t disappointed. Since I posted the piece, however, there have been a few new developments.
For one, Harriton High assistant principal Lindy Matsko has issued an [...]
dan tynan on Aug 04 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, politics
Flames are raging here in Cringeville after my post about Glenn Beck and the Obama ‘conspiracy’ to take over your computer. Here’s some more fuel for the fire.
dan tynan on Apr 10 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, National insecurity
Is the power grid under cyber attack? US spooks say yes. Better hunker down before Russia or China pull the plug.
dan tynan on Mar 30 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, National insecurity, Spy v spy
By now you’ve probably read about GhostNet, the vast spy network that was uncovered after the office of the Dalai Lama asked researchers at the University of Toronto to examine their computer networks for malware. The researchers not only found nasties there, they uncovered an entire network that connected almost 1300 computers in 103 [...]
dan tynan on Aug 22 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, National insecurity, Spy v spy
What do Chinese gymnasts and FBI agents have in common? They believe laws (and/or regulations) are made to be broken.
dan tynan on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy, Spy v spy
Seductive Asian agents, wayward Brits, purloined Blackberries — it sounds like a LeCarre novel, but it’s really a true story. Cringely dives deep into a sex/spy scandal of Olympian proportions and talks about what this means for you and your data.
dan tynan on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(This entry originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen…. While I was digging through the Net looking for the skinny on Sequoia Voting Systems and its mystery contractor Kwaidan Consulting (aka Mike Gibbons), the Bradblog’s Brad Friedman was doing the same. He managed to unearth [...]
