Bruce Schneier says “we as a society are heading down a dangerous path”

Whenever I start pursuing a story about a technology that purports to make the Internet more secure, or about a privacy-protecting measure that an Internet company is promoting, I try to check in with the cryptologist and security expect Bruce Schneier. It’s always a good day when Schneier gets back to you–but what he says is usually sobering.

And lately, what he says is downright dystopian.…

Smartphone apps that send disappearing messages are gaining in popularity.

By Rachel Metz on April 4, 2013

WHY IT MATTERS

Your digital past has a longer life than you’d probably prefer.

You’ve heard it an eye-rolling number of times: anything you post online, or any message you send—be it a seemingly benign text or a photo taken when you were drunk—can come back to haunt you.

Does it have to be true, though? A growing number of startups, led by rapidly…