The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.
