Violet Blue

Chances are, like me, the first time you heard about the Dark Web it was described as a foul and depraved marketplace, where children, drugs, and pirated movies could be bought for mere Bitcoin.

Where were you the day the internet died? Last Friday the internet had its biggest hiccup to date when a whole bunch of major websites were maliciously...

Like all sectors -- government, retail, finance and healthcare -- the adult and porn businesses are feeling the consequences of not making security a...

If you’ve ever imagined a scenario where police demand you unlock your phone and thought, “Over my dead body!” — we have bad news for you.

Silicon Valley's biggest companies have partnered with a single organization to fight sex trafficking -- one that maintains a data collection pipeline, is partnered with Palantir, and helps law enforcement profile and track sex workers without their consent. Major websites like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and others are working with a nonprofit called Thorn ("digital defenders of children") and, perhaps predictably, its methods are dubious.