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I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...

A couple of weeks ago, Mike reported on the extraordinary turn of events involving Edward Snowden's email supplier, Lavabit. The com...

Last week I  wrote  a letter to the European Commission about the extraordinary failure  of the  IPRED  consultation process. I certainly...

Following my  post  yesterday about the extraordinary failure of the  IPRED  consultation process, I enclose below my letter sent to the ...

Back in August, I urged people to respond to the consultation on the truly dreadful Draft Communications Bill, aka Snooper's Charte...

The draft bill of the UK's " Snooper's Charter ", which would require ISPs to record key information about every email ...

Most people instinctively appreciate the dangers of government surveillance. But at least it's possible to be on your guard when you ...

I like Thunderbird. I've been using it for years, albeit now more as a backup for my Gmail account than as my primary email client. But ...

I remain perplexed by the state of OpenOffice.org. After years of using Word 2 (yes, you read that correctly - by far the best version Micro...

Our dear Home Secretary decides to ignore what we proles think again: His warning follows an admission yesterday by Jacqui Smith that the t...

Of course : He uses Thunderbird, an e-mail application developed by Mozilla, the company which distributes the Firefox web browser, but he a...

Nicely put : By the end of the day, John has infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three legal articles, an architectural rendering, a ...

Yahimbra ? Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition–this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra. Sources close to the dea...

Ooh, look: an email from that nice man at Number 10 about my signing the petition against the Windows-only iPlayer: The Government set up t...

For many years, the only decent free end-user app was GIMP , and the history of open source on the desktop has been one of gradually filling...

It is, of course, hard to choose from the rather crowded field of contenders, but this one certainly takes the biscuit: An Information and ...

Has everyone gone Facebook mad? It certainly seems so, and apparently I'm not the only one to think so. But whatever your views of Fa...

This says it all, really: An advertising framework may reside on a user computer, whether it's a part of the OS, an application or inte...

I'm amazed it's taken so long to come up with this : DKIM uses digital signatures to authenticate messages. These signatures allow y...

State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability...