The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.