Adam Ostrow

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?

The seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: seven keys, held by individuals from all over the world, that together control security at the core of the web. The Guardian’s James Ball joins a private ceremony, and finds the reality is rather closer to The Office than The Matrix.