By Jul 05,2004

Tuning out RFID panic

Although privacy activists have been up in arms about RFID technology in consumer products, the real threat lies in government snooping.

By Jun 20,2004

Night of the living spam

Have you ever tried to imagine what a spammer looks like? “Vigrax,” for example, could be a slovenly European–Dutch probably–writing these bizarre email advertisements in a dark, dirty studio apartment...

By Jun 20,2004

Unpublished law

When is a published document considered unpublished? Only in the realm of law, where one of the first lessons any law student learns is how legal fiction is more powerful...

By Jun 13,2004

A statement, not an apology

I was in third grade on January 28, 1986, the day the Challenger exploded. I had just returned home weeks earlier from a vacation tour of Cape Canaveral, where I...