Science & Technology Archives

China Delays Censorship Software Rule

Communist China on June 30 postponed its requirement that the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort censorship software be included with all computers sold...

Steven J. DuBord July 1, 2009

Competing for Best Censorship

Steven J. DuBord June 26, 2009

Technology firms in countries with little government repression are currently competing to be the best at helping repressive regimes like China and Iran...

Satellite Spying on Americans

Thomas R. Eddlem June 25, 2009

When the Associated Press leads a story with the headline that “Homeland security kills domestic satellite program,” can you rest easily that your...

Estimate of Natural-gas Reserves Jumps 35 Percent

Ed Hiserodt June 22, 2009

The Potential Gas Committee, a group of academics and industry specialists supported by the Colorado School of Mines, reports the largest increase in...

U.S. Nuclear Site List Leaked

Steven J. DuBord June 4, 2009

Steven Aftergood, a security expert with the Federation of American Scientists, reported on June 1 that “a compilation of hundreds of U.S. nuclear...

President Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan

Steven J. DuBord June 2, 2009

On May 29 President Barack Obama introduced his administration's new report on cybersecurity in the United States entitled Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a...

Tracking Your Digital Trail

May 28, 2009

Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen. ...

Obama Names Bolden for NASA

Steven J. DuBord May 27, 2009

“Obama's NASA selection is a boost for manned spaceflight” proclaimed the headline to the May 24 Los Angeles Times story. Apparently, “the choice...

Specialist Claims China Waging Cyberwarfare

Steven J. DuBord May 19, 2009

“China is playing chess while we're playing checkers,” says Kevin G. Coleman, a cybersecurity adviser to the U.S. government, according to a May...

New Cybersecurity Regime Proposed

Ann Shibler April 9, 2009

Introduced just last week in the Senate, rather quietly, was the new Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Proposed by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV...

Google Beware of Antitrust Nominee

Denise Behreandt February 20, 2009

Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief...