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About half the world’s population uses the internet. How do we take advantage of this digital connectivity and also protect society from risk?

The Golden Moment when Nobody in the Computer Suite is on Facebook

Online insecurity

02 Apr 2012

Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to the largest ever sample analysis.

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Android

What is the price of free?

06 Mar 2012

Scientists from the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University have designed a method to improve privacy control in the Android apps market. The...

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Digital trust

Trust on the wild web

18 Mar 2011

Philosopher Tom Simpson asks: can we build a trustworthy and safe Internet?

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browsing for books at The Strand

The future of books

01 Jan 2010

The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history...

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