To limit the power of Big Tech, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition
summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four...
Report on the hack-for-hire market: attacks that phish 2FA to access email accounts cost $100-$400; such attacks can be prevented with physical security keys
Ariana Mirian / Communications of the ACM : Tweets: @uhoelzle and @dinodaizovi Tweets: Urs Hlzle / @uhoelzle : The bad news: a targeted attack on your account costs $100-300. The good news: Gmail/Goo...
Most of Bitcoin's components had been described in the 80s and 90s; Satoshi Nakamoto's true genius was in assembling them to work in the real world
ACM Queue : Tweets: @diogomonica , @random_walker , and @diogomonica Tweets: Diogo Mnica / @diogomonica : At least six percent of bitcoins in circulation have been stolen at least once. http://queue....
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee on his 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award, the recent privacy vote, clickbait, and online advertisements
As the world wide web creator accepts the prestigious Turing award, he talks to Sam Thielman about the US Congress's rollback of privacy rules and fake news