“Acres of trees died to produce a blizzard of barely comprehensible privacy notices.”

-FTC Chairman Timothy Muris

Privacy and security issues affect individual users, large organizations and even governments. How effective is the response from the private and public sectors to these challenges, and what are the right solutions? Debates over issues of privacy and security beg the input of experts – those who truly understand the ramifications of various technologies and policies. In the articles below, contributors to Hightechforum.org review and debate privacy and security issues, and the market and policy solutions that are emerging to address them.

Wi-Fi Security Bug to be Explained

Wireless network security weakness to demo at DEFCON: Security researchers have discovered security shortcomings in the WPA2 protocol that threaten the security of wireless networks, even if they are running [...]

Web sites vulnerable to phishing attacks

A new report from security firm Dasient concludes that the majority of websites are running third-party JavaScript somewhere on their sites, which could be putting them at risk. See the [...]

Hacking the Hackers

This is hilarious, in a “turn-about is fair play” sense. Popular piracy site The Pirate Bay has been hacked: A South American security researcher who goes by the handle Ch [...]