TidBITS publisher Adam Engst can’t resist a minor rant about how the writing is not on the wall for plain text books in a world of iPads and multimedia-enhanced books. Read on for why these enhanced ...

W hile Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other ...

I’ve long been a fan of plain text for everything from notes to general writing, but it wasn’t until recently that I found my holy grail: An app tha ...

The full en banc court ultimately affirmed the district court, finding that the plain language of the FDCPA provided a one-year statute of limitations, supplanting whatever common-law rules might ...

An important way to provide greater cognitive accessibility is to use “Plain Language” writing. Here is an example of an original text, followed by a Plain Language version: ...

Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's ...

When building secure Java applications, it's important to make sure there are no plain text passwords anywhere in the code base.

Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of its users' passwords in plain text for years. The acknowledgement from the social media giant came after a security researcher posted about the ...

Essentially, CriticMarkup is a plain text syntax for marking up text in editorial reviews. For someone who writes in Markdown and works with a team on a daily basis, CriticMarkup is the missing piece ...

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees -- in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has ...