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The UK government seems to be pressing ahead with its idiotic plans to backdoor crypto. There is a (secret) consultation on the subject tha...

Last year, I wrote about some serious issues with Microsoft's Secure Boot Technology in Windows 8. It seems that the German govern...

In the wake of Microsoft's dire financial results, it might seem a little unsporting to draw attention to more of the company's...

About a month ago, I wrote about the extraordinary fact that Microsoft routinely hands over zero-day exploits in its applications to th...

One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global...

Hackers and hacking have been much in the news recently - for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately. The most dramatic case, perhaps, was...

One of the reasons Techdirt rails against exaggerated responses to supposed terrorist threats is that it has caused police forces around ...

Abuse of the DMCA takedown process to remove material that is awkward or embarrassing for a company is a common enough topic on Techdirt....

This year's winner of the Nobel prize in literature , the Chinese writer Mo Yan, was a controversial choice. Some saw him as too clos...

Light Blue Touchpaper is a blog written by researchers in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (don't...

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt reported on UK politicians calling for ISPs to "take down" terrorist content. Now it seems th...

Back in September last year, there was a bit of a to-do about Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot technology in Windows 8, when a Red Hat eng...

The news about "Operation Shady Rat" has naturally provoked much interest (as it was intended to....) After all, who could not f...

One of the most embarrassing features of the dotcom era was a habit of putting “cyber” in front of everything to make it look hot and trendy...

On Monday, I called the HMRC to give them some information they wanted from me. After being placed on hold for about 10 minutes, I finally g...

I'm very sceptical about the concept of “cyber attacks”. Not that I doubt that computer systems and infrastructure are attacked: it'...

A Microsoft researcher offers an interesting medical metaphor : Just as when an individual who is not vaccinated puts others’ health at risk...

You might think that's a pretty ridiculous question to ask, since the canard about open source being less secure than closed source has ...

Another brilliant essay on security from Bruce Schneier. It's all well-worth reading, but here's the nub: If universal surveillanc...

I'd never heard of the UK government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), but that's not surprising, since ...