It’s odd that we forget people in our reporting. We’re people. Everyone around us is a person, however annoying their habits might be. People want …
There's data about you packed, and offered to the highest bidder. For your online privacy, deleting yourself from the sites is a great place to start.
If you want to know how to spot a liar, a new study suggests you should look at their hands and listen for how much they talk about themselves.
A new system uses data science and crowdsourcing to spot people who are lying with more accuracy than the human eye. Try out the game for yourself.
Lately I have been reading some articles about the benefits of showing passwords in cleartext instead of masking them. All articles agree…
How can a private investigator, bail enforcement agent, or skip tracer find indigent or homeless people who leave little or no paper trail? A few tips.
Trace Labs is a new project where hackers compete to find missing people cases. It all started when Rob Sell, a professional search and rescue tracker who al...
On any given day, one can open the newspaper and find several examples of untrustworthy behavior from individuals performing acts …
BOSTON—Speaking in hushed tones lest their word be overheard by the wrong person, sources confirmed Friday that people talk, you know, and that word gets around much quicker than you might imagine. “You’re smart enough to know this, but you should be very, very careful who you’re spilling your secrets to,” said sources, holding a finger up to their lips and emphasizing that gossip spreads like goddamn wildfire around here. “Don’t be an idiot, alright, buddy? You know these walls have ears. We…
Lynch law, loss of private life, disgusting marketing, digital identity theft — how else can facial recognition be misused?
A problematic Apple bug is making headlines worldwide, but should you be concerned about people eavesdropping on your calls?
Now I've collected specific kinds of insecure employees that infosec workers have had to deal with and protect—or protect their servers from. You'll definitely recognize people you work with on this list. Hopefully you won't recognize yourself.
Even if legislation marginally improves people’s privacy, it may impose costs that leave consumers worse off.
“Would you mind if I picked your brain?” You get this question, I’m sure. You’re an attorney. Or an accountant. Or a doctor. You’re a senior manager or a business owner. You have experience. You have knowledge. And now someone wants to tap into that knowledge. For free. Do you let him? This is how [...]