Kashmir Hill's posts

As part of its worldwide domination plan, the car-hailing service Uber launched its smartphone app in…

Next month, Virgin Group billionaire Sir Richard Branson is hosting a bunch of people at Necker Island, his "private…

It's a Thursday morning in Beijing, and the world's most famous living artist, Ai Weiwei, is sitting with one of the…

Several years ago, Boston lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan was visiting family and friends in San Francisco. While she…

First, insurance companies gave us black boxes to put in our cars so they could track our driving, in exchange for…

If you want to run a secure country, you should know how to run a secure website.

When Kentucky senator Rand Paul announced this week that he plans to seek the Republican nomination for president,…

Five years ago, a start-up called Intellitar garnered massive media attention by promising its users "virtual…

Earlier this month, in the middle of the night, a pair of Minnesota parents heard strange music coming from their…

If you spend all your time studying criminals, you tend to learn a thing or two about being a criminal.

Anyone who has been following the real-life criminal drama swirling around the online drug marketplace Silk Road had…

A couple of months ago, Laura Harper, a 44-year-old freelance writer and editor from Houston, Texas, got upset while…

Two years ago, comic book writer Brian Vaughan and comic book artist Marcos Martin teamed up for a 10-volume series…

Scott Chasin is one of those veteran online security guys whose résumé checks off all the right boxes: he’s sold a…

A few years ago, insurance companies started offering people the option to put a computerized chip known as a "black…

Last night, Apple pushed out iOS 8.2 to my iPhone, an update to its operating system. The blurb for the update…

For years, colleges and universities have used computer programs like TurnItIn to keep students from plagiarizing on…

Last week, we reported that Hertz has started putting cameras in its rental cars—a practice that has alarmed some of…

This week I got an angry email from a friend who had just rented a car from Hertz: "Did you know Hertz is putting…

It's well-established that passwords are a flawed security system. Attackers can guess them, steal them from a…