Declan McCullagh argues that the Convention on Cybercrime will endanger Americans' privacy and civil liberties--and place the FBI's massive surveillance apparatus at the disposal of nations with much less respect for individual liberties.
Al-Qaida is not the only terrorist network hoping to wreak havoc on the United States through "cyberwarfare," the CIA says.
The U.S. senate is considering funding for nanotechnology but free-market critics argue that the industry does not need government subsidies.
An addition to an international treaty could permit police to cooperate more closely on intercepting and decrypting the communications of suspected terrorists.
Iris-scanning and face-matching technologies don't work nearly as well as their manufacturers have claimed, the Department of Defense has discovered.
Advances in manufacturing radio frequency identification could soon make it feasible for manufacturers to insert them into their products to track and identify consumers.
Declan McCullagh considers the evidence that Osama bin Laden may have a crude nuclear device at his disposal.
An overview of MATA, the new "Mobilization Against Terrorism Act" (MATA) that rewrites laws dealing with wiretapping, eavesdropping and immigration. The draft, intended to increase prosecutors' courtroom authority, also unleashes the government's Echelon and Carnivore spy systems
A new study argues that privacy technology will protect Americans' privacy better than new laws can.
These must be jittery times for anyone in the military who uses the Internet. Not only do they have to guard against Love Bug worms and security holes in Microsoft Outlook -- now they've got to worry about Fidel Castro hacking into their computers. Admiral Tom Wilson, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, says the 74-year-old communist dictator may be preparing a cyberattack against the United States.