‘Wow that’s interesting’, says discoverer of sensitive document on government Web site
A 267-page document listing all U.S. civilian nuclear sites along with descriptions of their assets and activities became available on whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org days after a government Web site publicly posted the data by accident.
The sensitive, but unclassified, data had been compiled as [...]

Back in the days of Windows NT, the roaming profile was all the rage. A user could go to the office and work at his own computer, using the network, e-mail, files, and other resources. If, for some reason, that user has to switch to another workstation temporarily, he logs on to a different computer [...]

It’s always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself.
Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL to the picture is (the actual photo, not the page on which the photo resides), and then delete [...]

Concerned that Google knows too much about you? The company provides many ways to protect your privacy online — you just need to find them. Here are six good ones.
1. Know your privacy rights: Use the Google Privacy Center. This site includes all of Google’s privacy policies, as well as privacy best practices for each [...]

Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made that statement to this reporter. A few years ago, it might have sounded far-fetched. But if you’re one of the growing number of people who are using more and more products in Google’s ever-expanding stable (at last count, I was using a dozen), [...]