Articles by Backbytes
Backbytes: Digital goods - here today, expunged tomorrow
Games company Electronic Arts demonstrates how digital goods work - and how easily they are taken away
Backbytes: Kremlin gets into a GPS jam in Moscow
Muscovites have to resort to roadmaps to get around the Russian capital
How Dan Wagner Powa'd through £144m of other people's money
How not to run a company: Administrator's report into Dan Wagner's Powa makes for devastating reading
The entrepreneurial Powa of Dan Wagner
How the company that was going to be bigger than Google burned through $225m and crashed in just three years
Amazon Web Service's Ts & Cs upgraded for zombie apocalypse
AWS EULA keeps all bases covered
Backbytes: Samsung scrapes the bottom of the barrel with internet-connected fridge
Samsung will 'cement the refrigerator's position as the centre of the kitchen'... Oh dear
Backbytes - Economist anti-adblocking tool infected PCs with malware
Visited the Economist website recently? Updated Adobe? Time to do a full anti-virus scan...
Backbytes: Open-source developers targeted in honeytraps, claims Eric Raymond
'Deliberately planned and persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob' - Raymond
Top-of-the-range Microsoft Surface Book, sir? That'll be $3,199
Microsoft demands arm, leg, shirt off back AND your first-born for its new Surface Book
Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers
Far from trying to hold on to their customers, big software companies seem to be trying to wring them even harder
Backbytes: How Sanmay Ved became the new owner of Google.com
And at the bargain price of just $12!
Backbytes: VW covering things up? It wouldn't be the first time...
VW didn't want anyone to know how easy their cars are to steal
Backbytes: Carly Fiorina. Hobson's choice for president?
Fiorina's business record doesn't really stand up to close scrutiny
Backbytes: Fraudster's attempt to use 'right to be forgotten' backfires with £30k legal bill
Jailed in 2007 over a £51m VAT scam, convicted fraudster Malcolm Edwards fails in bid to have news reports of his crimes erased
Backbytes: You say "Anunak", I say "Carbanak"...
Kaspersky out-PRs Fox-IT over Russian cyber bank-robbers
Backbytes: Scotland's government resurrects national ID card scheme
One identity database to rule them all under SNP plan encompassing child informants
Backbytes: Guess who's looking for security specialists? Why, Moonpig...
Embarrassingly hacked gift card site pulls advert seeking security staff
If you've been hacked, and nothing else is secure, you need an, err, old BlackBerry
Sony Pictures unlocks a stash of old BlackBerrys for secure communications after Guardians of Peace hack
Backbytes: Big Brother is watching what you eat
Apple iBeacons to be used by US Department of Health to harass staff into healthier eating.
Backbytes: Strict liability offences - they're grrrrrreat!
Charges against bus driver accused of receiving 'extreme pornography' dropped when Crown Prosecution Service admitted the video was a fake
Backbytes: America - a nation of online trolls
One-quarter of Americans admit to being online trolls - terrific work, America!
Backbytes: David Davis MP has a Twitter account of a different kind
Are you on Twitter? Sort of...
Backbytes: Apple and Facebook with frozen egg on faces
Silicon Valley companies pay for female staff to freeze their ova
Backbytes: Apple offers one-click U2 removal after Bono backlash
Apple CEO Tim Cook is clearly the last U2 fan on Earth
Backbytes: Doom for Canon printers!
Internet-connected Canon Pixma printers cracked by security company - and modified to play Doom
Backbytes: A year too late, MPs realise that the UK's smart meters are a waste of money
MPs finally work out that the UK's Smart Metering Implementation Programme is an expensive waste of time that will be obsolete before its rolled out
Backbytes: Use a VPN? You're probably a filthy pirate, BBC tells Australian government
BBC tells Australia to police internet users more closely - and make the ISPs pay for it
Backbytes: Google tests drones, start digging your bunker
'Project Wing' gets its first public flight, but how much of our lives does Google want to control?
Backbytes: Two per cent of electorate register to vote online, government congratulates itself
Digital reform still sees government sending out letters confirming online registration
Backbytes: Top Gear and porn - what North Korean internet users are downloading
Anything that launches Guardian readers into fits of splenetic, spittle-flecked rage is good with us
Backbytes: iPads not welcome here. Good
Manchester United bans iPads from the "theatre of dreams". About time, too
Backbytes: Braintree GP surgery's zero-tolerance of social-media whiners
"Rude" people complaining online given warning by Braintree practice manager
Backbytes: Unhackable Blackphone, err, hacked
$829 'secure' smartphone rooted in five-minutes flat at DefCon security conference
Backbytes: Is Uber trying to drive its rivals out of business?
That old trick of ordering a pizza or a cab for some unsuspected chump is never quite so funny when you're found out...
Backbytes: One billion passwords cracked! Pay $120 to find out if you're affected...
Is there really a Russian gang that has seemingly cracked 1.2 billion user names and passwords? Really???
Backbytes: Someone sent you some unsolicited smut? You may be prosecuted for it
How to get someone you don't like into trouble: just send them some filth and call the police
Backbytes: First, they came for the bloggers...
Inspired by Leveson, Russian law obliging bloggers to register with state regulator comes into force today
Backbytes: Black Hat to the NSA - 'Your name's not down, you're not coming in'
For some reason, the NSA has become less welcome at security conferences...
Backbytes: Nostalgic for the 1980s? Good news - the new ZX Spectrum will be launched imminently
Are you missing 256×192, eight-colour graphics? Throw away your PC and buy a ZX Spectrum instead
Backbytes: Russia offers FOUR MILLION RUBLES to unravel Tor
Russia's interior ministry offers to make ruble millionaires out of anyone who can crack Tor
Backbytes: Paypal-using merchant? Strapped for cash? Just take it - it's a feature, says Paypal
Paypal 'bug' that enables merchants to take unlimited amounts from accounts is a feature, not a bug, according to Paypal
Backbytes: Government plans to license porn on a global scale
The mind boggles: Latest criminal justice bill contains ambitious plan for the UK to license every porn site in the whole world.
Backbytes: Say "hello", wave goodbye
Stephen Elop touts Microsoft's terrific "severance benefits" in email to staff
Backbytes: Wall Street's crackdown on, err, software engineers
Software engineer? Work for a hedge fund? Want to move to another one? It'll be JAIL time for you, Sonny-Jim
Backbytes: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Who's more secure, BlackBerry or Blackphone? There's only one way to find out...
Backbytes: ICO gets hacked. Investigates itself. Will probably decide to be lenient
The question is, how much will it fine itself?
Backbytes: I have seen the future - it's a Triumph Adler typewriter
First the Russians, now the Germans
Backbytes: Google's Ad nonSense?
The advertising-strewn heart of Google, AdSense, is slowing down as more and more users block of ignore ads. Shame...