The Iranian election issue has been fascinating to watch unfold. Twitter has shown itself to be more than just a place where people announce what they had for breakfast or drunkenly send updates from night buses as they meander home. Twitter has gained real importance in the eyes of many – where firsthand updates [...]

For a little while it’s been bothering me that various websites ask for a secure password (Hotmail goes so far as to tell you, as you’re typing it, just how good your password is–more on this below), but then ask you to choose, as backup, a seemingly very much less secure question and answer, such [...]