Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2014
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2014
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
In "On What We Can Not Do," a short and pungent essay published a few years ago, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben outlined two ways in which power operates...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
Artificial intelligence is guided by the far-off goal of having software match humans at important tasks.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
Since Edward Snowden's revelations about government surveillence, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2014
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Politico From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2014
In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react to the first of his explosive leaks about the NSA's...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2014
When its handlers finally steer it into a collision course with Saturn in 2017, the spacecraft Cassini will have been in space for two decades, 13 of those years...BoingBoing From ACM Opinion | May 9, 2014
Recently retired director of the U.S. National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command General Keith Alexander was interviewed by Australian Financial...The Australian Financial Review From ACM Opinion | May 8, 2014
If the so-called Internet of Things ever becomes one of those proverbial next big things in technology, Thomas Lee, a card-carrying member of the cohort of big...CNET From ACM Opinion | May 8, 2014
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 5, 2014
In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 25, 2014
Reflections on a British computer engineer who influenced several important machines, including the first stored-program computer.David Anderson From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2014