Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.