Scroll to top
Media /

Digital

Australians are always moving to hide themselves from mass surveillance. That's why security agencies won't stop at data retention.

Data retention laws will get worse, with VPNs the only winners

Australians are always moving to hide themselves from mass surveillance. That's why security agencies won't stop at data retention.

Print is heading on an inexorable spiral to death," says <em>Crikey</em>'s cheerful founder.

Crikey 15: Stephen Mayne on the future of the media

Print is heading on an inexorable spiral to death," says Crikey's cheerful founder.

A powerful, secretive clique within government has at last won a long battle to impose mass surveillance on Australians. Here are the key tactics that enabled their success.

How the metadata war was won: the seven tactics of the security elite

A powerful, secretive clique within government has at last won a long battle to impose mass surveillance on Australians. Here are the key tactics that enabled their success.

Mia Friedman has written a long article about her anxiety and the marvelous medicine that cures it. But she doesn't mention all those silly side effects -- like coma, convulsions and possibly death.

Rundle: the dark side to Mia Freedman's life blather

Mia Friedman has written a long article about her anxiety and the marvelous medicine that cures it. But she doesn't mention all those silly side effects -- like coma, convulsions and possibly death.

There are readily accessible ways of evading the government's mass surveillance scheme, but you'll need to assess what's best for you, technology consultant <b>Dave Sag</b> writes.

Keen to evade data retention? Here's how to choose a VPN

There are readily accessible ways of evading the government's mass surveillance scheme, but you'll need to assess what's best for you, technology consultant Dave Sag writes.

Citing a crowded market and low revenues, <em>The Hoopla</em> is shutting up shop.

'When elephants go to war, the ants get trampled': The Hoopla closes as field gets more crowded

Citing a crowded market and low revenues, The Hoopla is shutting up shop.

Andrew Bolt has mentioned ambulance volunteer <b>Rachelle Irving</b>'s <em>Crikey</em> story on witnessing remote Aboriginal communities first hand. But of course, he has missed the point entirely.

Thanks for the shout-out, Bolt, but you're wrong again

Andrew Bolt has mentioned ambulance volunteer Rachelle Irving's Crikey story on witnessing remote Aboriginal communities first hand. But of course, he has missed the point entirely.

Political debate has turned back to policy, as calls for a spill die out.

Isentia Index: Policy debate returns from a long nap

Political debate has turned back to policy, as calls for a spill die out.

Security experts are warning that China could turn off our power by hacking our power grid -- like they've been saying for nearly twenty years.

Here come the Chinese hackers -- yet again

Security experts are warning that China could turn off our power by hacking our power grid -- like they've been saying for nearly twenty years.

Encrypted messaging apps pose new problems for politicians, freedom of information laws and government transparency.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? Turnbull's secret messaging an insult to transparency

Encrypted messaging apps pose new problems for politicians, freedom of information laws and government transparency.