The Macron campaign fooled the phishers by giving them phony accounts.

There is good and bad about this. If the Democratic National Committee biases the primary race against Sanders in 2020, as it did in 2016, it may be harder to detect that.

The total insecurity of Signaling System 7 means that crackers can now fake two-factor authentication using SMS.

I have never used two-factor authentication myself, because it requires a mobile phone (portable tracking and listening device) and I refuse to be tracked and listened to.

I think other sorts of two-factor authentication require a smart phone — which means, even more malicious.

I don't do internet banking at all, because it is legally risky as well as risky in regard to computer security.

The internet facilitated today's right-wing lie campaigns: it created "message-board" darwinian discourse, in which people compete for attention and the most brash and outrageous claims win.

Laws punishing banks for anything that resembles money laundering are leading banks to shut the bank accounts of small charities and organizations. And they refuse to explain why.

The Taliban have infiltrated schools in parts of Afghanistan, intimidating teachers or imposing their own choice of teachers.