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Forget asking search engines to take down the site for you. There's an easier way. Robots.txt is a file you can store on the root level of your web server to protect your personal files from showing up on search results. It allows you control over where bots are allowed to crawl your site.

The practice of placing RFID chips inside your physical ID credentials is becoming routine for everything from your gym to the federal government. Here's a way to protect yourself and your deets using only duct tape and some other cheap materials.

Security analysts and the Somali government publicly flirt with the idea of hiring mercenaries to stop the pirates that are terrorizing east Africa. Now, the notorious guns-for-fire at Blackwater respond to the call, with a resounding arrrr!!!!!

It's more than a concept — it's a running car. And we'll see it at the Los Angeles auto show.

Google posts sharp third-quarter ad growth in the face of a global financial crisis. Seems the economic downturn isn't catching up with the search giant yet.

Fools never learn. No matter how many times I repeat that there's no sock puppetry -- posting under multiple names -- allowed here on DANGER ROOM, some half-wit goes ahead and does it again. So say goodbye, everyone, to one...

The rest of us may be going broke. But Al-Qaeda, "which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and sympathizers in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to escape the effects of the global financial crisis," experts tell...

Security analysts and the Somali government are publicly flirting with the idea of hiring mercenaries to stop the pirates that are terrorizing east Africa. Now, the notorious guns-for-fire at Blackwater are responding to the call, with a resounding arrrr!!!!! "Blackwater...

Linton Wells used to be one of the Pentagon geeks-in-chief -- a prime mover in the military's embrace of information technology. Now, he wants to encourage the Defense Deparment to network with relief agencies, civic organizations and the private sector...

The Republic of Georgia is one of the primary routes for the smuggling of nuclear materials out of the former Soviet Bloc. The U.S. has spent millions training and equipping the Georgian government to thwart nuclear trafficking. The recent Russian...