Let me get off your *&%$ list

05/11/12

Gibbs is irritated by the unsubscribe process of many commercial lists ..

Thwarting employers asking for Facebook access

05/07/12

The rise in employers and schools demanding access to workers' and students' social media has to be stopped

The government wants to know what it doesn't know

04/23/12

The government's increasing surveillance of us should make you very uneasy because they're determined to know what they don't know whether you like it or not

Microsoft, instead of turning the lights off on XP, make it open source

04/12/12

Microsoft just announced that some old favorites are going on Extended Support, Gibbs thinks after that, they should be set free

Good Enough IT -- better than Old Skool perfect

04/09/12

Are you one of the Old Skool types to whom detail and quality really matter? Where you strive for (and maybe rave about) the need for standards and are appalled by sloppiness?

Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

03/26/12

The U.S. broadband infrastructure is a monopolistic mess

Content sanitized for whose protection?

03/16/12

PayPal doesn't want to handle payments for porn.

What privacy do you have left to lose? Beware the drone

03/12/12

Last week's column about The Google and its new privacy policy got quite a response, ranging from "I don't get it, what's the fuss?," through to "I don't care, I have nothing to hide," and "it's been pretty obvious for years where this was all heading but very few people bothered to sound the alarm ... until now when it's too late."

You are the product for The Google

03/02/12

As of March 1, if you hadn't erased your Google Web History and switched the feature off, you will have made a big mistake because Google has set itself on a course that will allow the company to find out way too much about you ... at least, way too much about you if you have any interest in maintaining your privacy.

Giving up your iPhone

02/27/12

Now you know that your cellphone is causing real harm what will you do?

The FBI and the DOJ want you to report suspicious people and monitor social networks. Goodbye liberty

02/17/12

Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is incredibly hard to define and predict.

H.R. 1981, the jaws of law will eat your Internet rights

02/13/12

Like the great white in Jaws there's proposed legislation about to strike and it's your liberties that will have a chunk missing

Goodbye e-books, hello apps

02/02/12

E-book sales are, surprisingly, flattening and Gibbs knows why: E-books don't really work very well.

The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad

01/27/12

A reader letter makes Gibbs sum up why SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas.

No SOPA blackout? We know who you are

01/20/12

Yesterday saw many major Web sites going into blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA ... but, to their shame, a few of the biggest opted out

Your identity up for grabs

01/13/12

Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

01/09/12

Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ...

Goodbye 2011 ... What a year!

12/19/11

Gibbs ponders the year that just shot past ...

Social networking, ignorance, and apathy

12/08/11

Social networking services really do a bad job with managing our privacy ... and the problem apparently is that we and they don't know and don't care to fix it

How stupid can cell carriers be? Really Stupid.

12/05/11

The recent revelation that most of us are carrying around smartphones with embedded rootkits is both surprising and not so surprising. It's surprising because it makes you wonder, "How stupid can the carriers be?" It's not surprising in that we know the answer to that.

The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

11/23/11

For the eighth time, Gibbs awards those who deserve opprobrium for epic reasons

Apple and jail made cool

11/21/11

Apple, Steve Jobs, Richard M. Stallman, nerds, and Microsoft ... a heady mixture that Gibbs decides to stir this week

Net neutrality rules and the FCC's huge mistake

11/11/11

The Senate disapproval resolution of the FCC's net neutrality rules failed; could the FCC have made a serious mistake?

IT consumerization: It's biblical!

11/07/11

The consumerization of IT can't be stopped. You've got no choice about it ...

While we wait for cold fusion, let's update the ECPA

10/24/11

Gibbs wants you to get as excited about protecting your privacy as many of you are about cold fusion