The Matrix has you

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopiaI deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone and my iPad. Life improved. I had more time, since I wasn’t checking Facebook all the time. Now I look in on it maybe once a...

How fascism starts

For decades, ever since a scandal in the 1980s in which Switzerland’s government was revealed to have been spying on tens of thousands of its citizens, the Swiss have been sceptical about state surveillance. CCTV cameras are rare; even Google Street View is...

Not even close

Remember that iOS vulnerability that Apple patched with iOS 9.3.5? Yeah, it infected almost no phones. By contrast:It was a bad week for millions of Android phone users. Two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed but remain unpatched in a large percentage of devices,...