Right near the end of a long recent afternoon in a drab cubicle in a local branch of one the largest banking systems in the world, I entered another dimension. My spouse and I had been endlessly ...

I was helping a friend out today with a computer problem. ntuser.dat had inexplicably vanished, so I had to create a new user profile and copy the data over. Of course, since ntuser.dat holds ...

A celebration of the sudden, strange personal inquiries that guard our entrance into some of the internet’s most impersonal zones. By Sophie Haigney The website for an airline wanted to know what ...

Manufacturers deal with sensitive data each and every day. This includes test and quality data, warranty information, device history records, and especially the engineering specifications for a ...