Preserving Privacy in a Watched World
In the wake of ongoing revelations of online government surveillance, what many observers have suspected is now shown to be true. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt once famously said: there is no anonymity in the future of the Web. As the head of one of the companies chiefly...
What The Government Knows
Unless you've been sleeping under a rock lately, you know that recent revelations of the vast extent of government surveillance of the Internet and users have lit up a world wide firestorm. The brouhaha will doubtless continue, and further revelations are bound to...
War in Cyberspace Will Be A Real Mess
When hackers boast of their exploits, they often claim that they had only the good of the victim at heart – no matter what kind of mischief they've been up to. They usually innocently say that they are exposing how they accomplished whatever remarkable invasion or...
Not all Clouds are the Same
Cloud computing may be a term both vague and overused, but it is far more than just the latest buzzword. The "cloud" is another way of referring to the Internet; hence "cloud computing" is simply computing done over the Net. In other words, it's all about applications...
Virtual Servers Offer Power, Convenience, and Savings
As a full-service ISP, Southwest Cyberport offers a complete spectrum of web-publishing services from simple static webpages to highly complex, state-of-the-art interactive content managed sites. But there's even more to it than that. At one end of the range are free...
Is Cyberwar the New Normal?
The Internet these days is often compared to the Wild West. It, too, is a wide open frontier with endless possibilities, loose rules, limited government controls and not a few rustlers and bandits lurking along its trails. But unlike other frontiers, the Net seems to...