Johnny 5

Johnny 5 is the founding editor of the blog and writes about pressing technology issues. From important cat privacy stories to governments and corporations that overstep their boundaries, Johnny covers it all.

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Vector hand holding smartphone.
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“Bring your own device” to work: Is it worth it?
BYOD comes with numerous privacy risks.
Fake download for The Interview movie.
3 mins
Want to watch “The Interview”? Watch out!
By all accounts, “The Interview” isn't that great a film. Rotten Tomatoes has just 61 percent of moviegoers and...
Illustration of broken padlock with a dead face.
3 mins
Top 10 security breaches of 2014
That's right folks, it's time. Time for a roundup of the year's worst IT security breaches and how they've...
Illustration of drone stealing cell phone data.
3 mins
Theft from the skies: Could cell phone data theft affect you?
Recent discoveries have revealed that the NSA has been stealing cellular data right out of the air.
Laura Poitras illustration.
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Laura Poitras and the Digital Exiles
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras moved to Berlin in order to protect the source material for her documentary on Edward Snowden.
macOS Yosemite security features.
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OS X Yosemite: Are security and privacy the first thought or...
Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) has arrived and, according to Apple, it comes with safety. Built right in. The company’s...
Bitly links flagged as Malware.
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Don’t get bit: URL-shortening service flagged as malware
This article was originally published on November 6, 2014. If you can't trust Bitly, who can you trust? Citizens of...
use a vpn to stop verizon wireless from tracking you
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Verizon’s ‘perma-cookie’: Just another example of how ISPs invade, threaten our...
**Update: Verizon forced 'supercookies' on all of their customers until March 2015, when several senators raised privacy concerns over...
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Smart meters, dumb security? Hacking the Internet of Things
With increasing smart energy meters on the market, it's possible for hackers to spoof identities or cut off power to specific homes.
Pixel skull inside Dropbox logo.
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Soggy cardboard? Dropbox says it wasn’t hacked
Hundreds of Dropbox usernames and passwords were leaked on a Reddit thread, but the popular cloud service maintains it wasn't hacked.

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