The Washington Post has reported that the U.S. Congress will shortly take up a bill to “empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” Today’s conventional wisdom in cybersecurity circles is that: we’re very much open to attack (defined lots of ways; often people mean: PCs attached […]

Some Herdict Updates: * Here is a new video with Prof. Z navigating the screen and explaining how to use Herdict. * Helping us get the word of Herdict out to the herd-at-large, Shep has taken on some impressive language skills (and more impressive gender changes) to promote Herdict in a number of different languages […]

Imagine that you’re playing World of Warcraft and you decide you could use a little help finishing your quest. So you go to a site that aggregates and distributes “add-ons”—independently-written programs that hook into WoW and create new functionality for game players. You choose a popular one called QuestHelper and go on your way. As […]

As you all know, one of Prof. Z’s projects is Herdict, which monitors blocked web sites around the world. One of the ways you can help out the project is to jump over to the Reporter, a.k.a. amiblockedornot, which lets you test the accessibility of websites where problems have been reported. The Reporter will suggest […]

I’ve agreed to be a guest blogger for a little while at the Chronicle of Higher Education.  I’ll plan to cross-post here and there.  My opening question: I’ve recently written a book about the Future of the Internet (the paperback version comes out this week).  The argument it makes has a lot of moving pieces.  […]