115 posts and columns on Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Call for More Video Cameras Spotlights Debate on Use
Video cameras played a critical role in helping authorities track suspects in this week’s Boston bombings.Voices
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Companies are using various ploys to dupe employees into committing unsafe computing as a way to train them not to be so easily fooled.Voices
What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach
There’s a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers. Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.’s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat.Voices
Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy?
Alison Atkins’ family wanted access to her digital remains.Voices
Tor: An Anonymous, and Controversial, Way to Web-Surf
For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone.Voices
When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook
Even sophisticated users of social-networking sites like Facebook who take pains to protect the most private details of their lives are finding that a daunting task in an era when “public” has become the default.Voices
Let’s Go to the Videotape: Nonprofit Offers News Clips
For those who envy Jon Stewart’s ability to have TV news clips at his fingertips, a new Internet library service may be just the thing.Voices
An E-Reader Revolution for Africa?
It is time for a vocabulary lesson in Bernard Opio’s sixth-form class at the Humble Primary School in Mukono, Uganda. One new word the students have already learned this year is “Kindle.”Voices
Web Sites Use DNA to Create Family Trees
Who’s your daddy? Now a Web site may know for sure.Voices