How can a government turn off Twitter?
Calls to “shut down Twitter” don’t only come from prime ministers facing corruption allegations: during the 2011 riots former MP Louise Mensch suggested the same thing.
Geoff White
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Kids and porn: the issue’s not going away
The latest contribution to the debate about kids and porn came from the culture media and sport committee. But parents hoping for a speedy solution are in for a disappointment.
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‘Cyber-shame’ means never having to say you were hacked
Companies are deeply reluctant to admit when they’ve been hacked. But new European rules will force firms to come clean to customers about data breaches.
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Bitcoin ‘founder’ finds there is such a thing as a free lunch
A reporter claims to have tracked down the inventor of bitcoin, the virtual currency. But would such a man really have agreed to speak for the price of a free lunch?
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Why cybercrooks see the chance for profit almost everywhere
You would be surprised at the ingenuity of criminal hackers as they strive to turn their skills into cash.
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People behind the scenes keeping the web safe from hackers
We’re used to seeing police officers protecting our streets – what about the people guarding our computers? There’s an industry of researchers, investigators and enforcers fighting the bad guys.
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Zero days, cyber weapons – and Microsoft’s latest mission
Technology Producer Geoff White looks at the changing economics of hacking – and a tech giant trying to zero in “zero days”.
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Revealed: the personal data for sale on your old phone
Exclusive: Two of the UK’s largest pawn brokers are selling second-hand phones which still contain texts, photos, bank details and more, from their previous owners, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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What the new NSA Angry Birds leak means
Ed Snowden’s latest leaks not only show spy agencies tapping into and hoovering up data from apps like Angry Birds – they also reveal what a treasure trove the information is.
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Dishfire: who knows what?
Dishfire “collects pretty much everything it can” and is “especially useful for untargeted and unwarranted UK numbers”. There are many unanswered questions. So who has said what so far?
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Apple: a history in three bites
Apple has thrived by turning existing products into beautiful machines, then monetising them over their lifetime. But with no genuinely new product in the pipeline, has it lost its creative drive?
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Three rounds on government over text message snooping
The mobile network Three has become the latest phone company to demand answers from the government over GCHQ’s use of a text message snooping system run by US intelligence.
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Why the row over spying is about human nature, not metadata
Are humans warlike or obedient at heart? Technology Producer Geoff White looks at two political theories through the prism of Prism and the spying debate of the last 12 months.
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Asking the right questions on surveillance, the NSA and your texts
There are serious questions to be asked after the revelations about the NSA, GCHQ and intercepted text messages. But to get the right answers, let’s be clear what we’re asking.
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Revealed: UK and US spied on text messages of Brits
Exclusive: America’s spy agency created a secret system, Dishfire, to intercept almost 200m text messages a day – a system used by GCHQ to exploit a loophole allowing them to spy on British citizens.
