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Regardless Ars Technica is not providing sufficient ability for users or past users to erase their account and stopping it from being used and/or tracked or spoofed. In StackOverflow's case, they replace a past user's identity with user-[UID] once an account is deleted and no personal...

I just want to add here, asking people to create throw-away e-mail accounts and then conveniently "losing"/forgetting password and not use it anymore isn't a solution. It still opens up people's account to hijacking if that throw-away e-mail account can be retrieved at a later date (which many...

To be honest, I'd like to close my account on Ars. I don't post here often and I don't intend to post further. If I didn't happen to be reading my news feed today in detail I wouldn't have known you guys had been hacked. (Usually I skim through my 1000+ new articles per day news feed and usually...

The way I like to think about the issue is that if the Internet and computers didn't exist... You don't go around hanging your photo albums, choice of music, personal notes and letters, and whatever personal stuff you have on your person, and just for comparison sake, if you were to take them...

Wireless BadUSB. Just imagine the joy on the faces of hackers.

Let me just say, if it wasn't for Ars, I wouldn't even know of this gossip and on-going tussel. Now is this good or bad, you can decide for yourselves, I personally, don't believe it's a good thing for Ars, or for the people involved whatever side they're on. As someone who really don't care...

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To be honest. In favour of anti-discriminatory laws and regulations. The copyright should rightly belong to the monkey who is scientifically proven to be 99% similar to a human being, which is to say, a monkey is more similar to a human being than a coporate entity. And so, if we're talking...

I love this post, I tweeted about the exact same thing not 24 hours ago after watching the CES coverage and after looking through the internet and realising not many people actually realise, or care, about this commerical movement. I'll just add that there has already been demostration that...

I'm sorry, but if your sites have scrapers on them, it means there is a demand for automated alerts, why not just implement a push API service or an API service with regular update intervals. I have seen too many sites that allows scrapers (such as goverment public data record sites), but fail...

I wrote a piece on my old blog that went into full details about the terms hacking and hackers and how it is a totally misused term now-a-days because of it's ambiguity and the fact that it is today more associated with events of criminal intent, though my blog is no longer online, I feel...

So... this all really proves my view that the most secure computer systems are those that are off the grid entirely. Even then you'd better lock them up in a restricted access area. Now I know for sure what direction I'm taking my company network. Any foreign technology companies should be...

ghost.org site isn't working properly for me, their cloudfront cdn just keeps returning 404s. That doesn't give me too much of an impression of to the quality or their techincal abilities... oh well. I guess at least since it's open-source and has enough press coverage, they'll be able to...

Seniority is overrated. All seniors at some point reverts back into a junior when the industry moves on to a different technology or platform or simply changes job. It is true certain seniors are able to take their experience with them and become agnostic, but this can also be a double-edged...

A lot of people are thinking this is a UK issue, what people don't realise is how many countries overseas look to the UK (as well as the US) as examples for Internet governance. FYI, Australia and Canada are now renewing calls for the same thing as well, because if this goes ahead, all of a...

For what it's worth, we need to give this a 2nd look and debate. Clearly many of us are troubled by this, this isn't about pornography or children because they already have existing mechanisms to tackle such issues. This is about one man's wish to enforce his view and ideology on others through...