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
The Heartbleed bug crushed our faith in the secure Web, but a world without the encryption software that Heartbleed exploited would be even worse.Wired From ACM Opinion | April 21, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Every year, just before South by Southwest Interactive starts, the froth starts churning. Everybody begins wondering what this year’s breakout hit app will be.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites?Wired From ACM Opinion | February 3, 2014
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself—as with the Internet of Things...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2014
Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
Maybe it's your mom and/or dad. Maybe it's a sibling or a grandparent. Or maybe it's just that one friend who still uses a Motorola Razr from the early 2000s.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 27, 2013
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013