Whatever The Reports About Russian Trolls Buying Ads Is Initially, It's Way, Way Worse

With several reports about data breaches occurring over the past few years, we've developed something of a mantra around here: it's always, always worse than first reported. Yahoo just went through this having finally admitted that literally every email account was compromised way back in 2013 after having first said it was only a few hundred thousand accounts that were impacted. Deloitte and Equifax followed...

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Portugal Shows The Internet Why Net Neutrality Is Important

So if you've followed the debate over net neutrality for much of the last decade, you probably remember images like these, purporting to show what the internet might look like if we let broadband duopolies like AT&T or Comcast dictate internet access pricing structure: And while these mock ups were tongue in cheek, large ISPs have given every indication that this idea of freedom costing extra isn't too...

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Google Image Search Is A Honeypot Set Up By Aggressive Copyright Litigants

There are a lot of people out there that don't understand intellectual property issues. But perhaps no one misunderstands them quite as badly as internet marketing guru Dan Dasilva. And Dasilva has no excuse. He's been on the losing end of a copyright infringement lawsuit. Despite this, Dasilva continues to express his ignorance -- and proclaim his victimhood -- publicly on his YouTube channel.  Dasilva snagged an image from Google's...

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