http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/internet-security/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/my-computer-is-a-hired-gun-for-the-mafia/ Most of the time I use the internet to research stories, look up movies or stalk… errm, I mean keep in contact with friends using social media. If I’m feeling particularly exciting I might check out a YouTube video of a cat playing the piano or a panda sneezing. My computer, on the other hand, is busy running around extorting people as part of an organised crime gang or working as a double agent for foreign governments. And in its down time it hires itself out as a mercenary. And there is a good chance yours is doing this too. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/my-computer-is-a-hired-gun-for-the-mafia/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/my-computer-is-a-hired-gun-for-the-mafia/#item6007 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 IF you’ve been following the tech media this week, you’ll know that Google is in hot water over one of the most serious privacy breaches in its history. You’ll likely have heard that Google launched a new product, called Google Buzz,  that was meant to create a social network out of its email users. And that major privacy flaws in the product led to abusive men getting access to the details of their ex wives, political activists finding their contacts made public for investigators to peruse and journalists having their sources “outed”. I’m one of those journalists. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/ IF you’ve been following the tech media this week, you’ll know that Google is in hot water over one of the most serious privacy breaches in its history. You’ll likely have heard that Google launched a new product, called Google Buzz,  that was meant to create a social network out of its email users. And that major privacy flaws in the product led to abusive men getting access to the details of their ex wives, political activists finding their contacts made public for investigators to peruse and journalists having their sources “outed”. I’m one of those journalists. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-google-managed-to-reveal-my-sources/#item2407 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 IF you’ve been following the tech media this week, you’ll know that Google is in hot water over one of the most serious privacy breaches in its history. You’ll likely have heard that Google launched a new product, called Google Buzz,  that was meant to create a social network out of its email users. And that major privacy flaws in the product led to abusive men getting access to the details of their ex wives, political activists finding their contacts made public for investigators to peruse and journalists having their sources “outed”. I’m one of those journalists.