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Underwear bombs: Not this time
May 8th 2012, 10:46 from Gulliver
The CIA thwarts another underwear-bomb plot(29)
The war on terror: Sexy spies and Islamofascism
Apr 3rd 2012, 11:42 from Democracy in America
News of sexy Russian spies sends your correspondent on a jag of Cold War nostalgia(177)
Counter-terrorism: A snoop too far
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Has New York’s police department crossed a line?(24)
Babbage: March 7th 2012: Not the iPad 3
Mar 7th 2012, 5:08 from Babbage
Tablet manufacturers try to compete with Apple's iPad 3, members of LulzSec are arrested by the FBI and an American company makes a flying car(5)
Jonathan Keith “Jack” Idema
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition
Jonathan Keith “Jack” Idema, American fortune hunter and confidence trickster, died on January 21st, aged 55(19)
Daily chart: A multitude of Madoffs
Jan 27th 2012, 3:04 from Graphic detail
Swindling people who trust you is more prevalent than you might think(25)
Online file-sharing: Megaupload goes down
Jan 21st 2012, 4:44 from Babbage
American authorities shut a popular site used to share music, films and other stuff(41)
New American film: Dirty Hoover
Nov 16th 2011, 7:02 from Print edition
Clint Eastwood’s portrait of J. Edgar Hoover is quite a surprise(8)
Fighting al-Qaeda: Talking to terrorists
Sep 28th 2011, 6:18 from Print edition(3)
The Danziger Bridge trial: Some justice at last
Aug 11th 2011, 9:36 from Print edition
But a sorry commentary on the state of policing at the time of Katrina(5)
Internet servers: On the rack
Jul 6th 2011, 2:38 from Babbage
The FBI's LulzSec raid drags innocent websites down with it(6)
Jihad: The end of an era
Jun 14th 2011, 3:50 from Baobab
Fazul Mohammed and the beginning of the end of the jihadist story(81)
Gulet Mohamed: On the no-fly list, but flying?
Jan 15th 2011, 11:49 from Gulliver
Sometimes, the US makes an exception(38)
Insider trading on Wall Street: Outside the law
Nov 25th 2010, 10:47 from Print edition
A government investigation shakes the hedge-fund industry(5)
War commuters: Countermeasures against your own imagination
Oct 29th 2010, 3:12 from Democracy in America
The fact that some number of Americans are potentially susceptible to collaborating on some kind of terrorist attack doesn't imply that the techniques of the terrorist attacks they might be collaborating on will in any way resemble those pictured in your imaginary sting operation(29)
The war on commuters: Panic! We got our man
Oct 29th 2010, 2:01 from Democracy in America
The FBI's bomb-plot sting reduces the need for random subway searches(69)
Biometrics: The Difference Engine: Dubious security
Oct 1st 2010, 8:22 from Babbage
Keeping evildoers out is no simple screening matter(31)
Language-learning software: Learning Arabic with Rosetta Stone?
Sep 9th 2010, 7:49 from Johnson
The much-marketed software has many flaws(27)
Islamic fundamentalism: The Q&A: Lawrence Wright, journalist
Sep 6th 2010, 9:04 from Prospero
Mr Wright discusses the inspiration for "My Trip to al-Qaeda", a new documentary based on his one-man show(5)
Europe View: Trading in spies: Europe View: The missing links (updated)
Jul 12th 2010, 9:28 from Eastern approaches
Several bits of the purported spy swap don't make sense(1)
Spycraft, Russia and the west: Eat the ashes, then read them
Jul 5th 2010, 12:49 from Eastern approaches
The tangled story of the Russian "spy ring" in America provokes complacency in some quarters, alarm in others(0)
Espionage: Spies like us
Jul 1st 2010, 11:08 from Print edition
An unusual spy network is busted by the FBI(46)
Russian spies in America: Burn after reading
Jun 29th 2010, 4:43 from Newsbook
Russia confirms that the suspects charged by the FBI are Russian citizens(86)
Russian "spies" unmasked: Spy v Spy (again)
Jun 29th 2010, 7:48 from Eastern approaches
Eleven alleged Russian spies, living deep undercover in America, are unmasked by the FBI(35)
Crime on the border: How dangerous is Arizona?
Jun 21st 2010, 4:56 from Democracy in America
Not as dangerous as you think(29)