Wayne Rash

WASHINGTON—Bill Gates came to the nation’s capital to prod elected officials into doing more to support technological innovation, but he also took the opportunity to chide the government on its demands for access to private customer data during an appearance April 18 at a Reuters Newsmakers event at the St. Regis hotel here. Gates chose […]

I glanced out the right window of the cockpit as my aircraft climbed out of Tappahannock, Va., and in the distance, I could see the sparkle of the Chesapeake on this gloriously clear day as I headed for a landing at Manassas, Va. The Rappahannock River slid behind me and I could feel a little […]

Canada’s federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has been decrypting BlackBerry Messenger messages since 2010, according to papers uncovered in a joint investigation conducted by Vice News and Motherboard following a two-year fight by government lawyers to keep that information from being released. BlackBerry has long pointed to its supposedly unbreakable encryption for […]

High-End Work Drones Dominate Orlando Dealer Show While consumer drones are grabbing the headlines, the real growth potential will come from drones for business and industry. Here are examples of these work drones. A Custom-Made Drone for Movie Making This heavy-duty drone is custom-manufactured at the facilities of Drone Nerds in Miami. The drone itself […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Representatives of drone manufacturers, distributors and dealers say that getting the information that businesses need to enable safe and lawful drone flights is difficult at best. In addition, some sellers of drones simply don’t have staff trained to provide help. In a few cases, drone dealers are intentionally passing out erroneous information on regulations […]

Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S7 and its somewhat larger sibling the S7 Edge, are aimed at the same market as Apple’s latest flagship effort, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The Verizon version of the Galaxy S7 (reviewed here) and the iPhone 6s are about the same size, they’re close enough in weight […]

My first reaction after reading accounts about the breach of a vast trove of financial and related information from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was to channel John Le Carré and his famed Panamanian tailor/spy Harry Pendel. However, the reality is much less interesting. The story is actually about a company with third-rate security […]

WASHINGTON—At first the meeting at the Future of Privacy Forum headquarters downtown looked like any other office soiree here, one populated by Millennials and hipsters trying to impress each other with their real or perceived level of official access. But a second look changed that impression. Right behind the check-in desk was a massive flat […]

I was visiting a Website belonging to a well-known Macintosh publication reading details about the iPhone SE when a window appeared in the lower right corner of my screen. It was an alert saying that the Malwarebytes security software I use had detected an intrusion attempt, and that the malware was being quarantined. A few […]

The drama is over. The rancorous legal drama during which the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to compel Apple to create a work-around that would allow the agency to bypass iOS security measures ended when the bureau announced that it had gained access to an iPhone 5C used by terrorists and that Apple’s help was […]

Imagine if you will that Edgar Rice Burroughs had taught his famous character Tarzan how to type and then dropped him into a room with nothing but a computer attached to Twitter. That computer would be the young Tarzan’s only window to the outside world. You’ll remember that Burroughs’ fictional Tarzan (the character in the […]

I had high hopes for the Amazon Echo device when I ordered it in early March as a sort of birthday present to myself. This is because I work in a remote office with no support staff and there are times when I need an assistant. Sadly, hiring and paying an assistant involves real money […]