Computers - The New American

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...

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. ...

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...