If you're a PlayStation 3 user, you've probably been annoyed the last few days by the PlayStation Network's downtime. Well, it gets worse: hackers have busted into Sony's house, and now they have your personal information.

Well, this is unsettling. Apparently, ever since this summer's iOS 4 release, iPhones have been quietly tracking your location at all times, logging that info in an unencrypted file that anyone can access. Yikes.

Need a little bit of help standing up to a repressive foreign government? The U.S. State Department probably isn't going to give you an airdrop of heavy weapons, but they are thinking about providing an app for your cellphone to help inform (and protect) all your activist friends when you get hauled off for interrogation.

The arena of biometrics has just taken security to the next level with a new method of identifying an individual's unique hand characteristics without even making contact.