A few weeks ago, my friends and I were debating the legality of the increased security policies used by airports.  I had never thought twice about the full body scans and luggage X-rays that I and all other passengers are subject to before we board a flight. I consider these to be necessary methods of safety, especially [...]

Facebook seems to be a hot topic this week with Consider. I recently received an email from the Facebook team about “proposed updates to the Data Use Policy and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR).”  But, in my opinion, getting emails from Facebook is about as annoying as my alarm going off in the morning after [...]

Say you sit down at your computer and go to log into Facebook or CTools, but you only see a box asking for your username.  Despite your puzzled state, you type in your username like you normally would and… voila!  You have successfully entered your desired site.  Now, what just happened? The Defense Department’s Defense [...]

Each year in the NCAA Tournament brings new upsets and new Cinderella stories for us to fall in love with.  Last year, Virginia Commonwealth made it all the way to the Final Four before being eliminated, and how could anyone forget George Mason in 2006?  Many threw out their brackets after the first day and [...]

On the Internet, hundreds of pieces of information about us are collected and used everyday.  This includes everything from your pictures on Facebook, your e-mails in your Gmail, your credit card information in your Amazon profile, and even your history of the sites you visited.  Much of this information floats around in vast World Wide Web without one [...]

In light of the recent spam University of Michigan students received in their inboxes, it brought back to mind the question of just how secure the realm of the Internet truly is. In a world where we rely so heavily on the Internet and online applications, it is difficult for me to reconcile its extreme benefits [...]