State Secrets
I previously wrote about the government’s use of things like Dirt Box and Stingray – technologies that allow the government to surreptitiously intercept either the contents of communications, or the…
Expert Insights
Back to Vendor ListingsTop 10 Tips for Credit Card Customers For Black Friday
It’s almost Black Friday, followed by Cyber Monday. The day’s consumers whip out their credit and debit cards (or just their credit and debit card numbers) and buy buy buy. But in…
California Revenge Porn Law: A Start
In the wake of the iCloud hack of the pictures of the (very attractive) nude celebrities, it was announced that lawyers had contacted Apple threatening to sue. ‘Cause that’s what…
Day of Cyber Infamy
NOAA WEATHER STATION – THE AZORES – NIGHT SUPERIMPOSE: NOAA WEATHER STATION – THE AZORES A HARBIN Z-9 military helicopter hovers silently above the antenna clad nondescript building as a…
Day of Cyber Infamy
NOAA WEATHER STATION – THE AZORES – NIGHT SUPERIMPOSE: NOAA WEATHER STATION – THE AZORES A HARBIN Z-9 military helicopter hovers silently above the antenna clad nondescript building as a…
I’m Sorry, Siri, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
Alexa is listening to your every word. So is Siri. And Cortana. And Google. Or the HAL 9000 computer. Just say the magic words and the devices from Amazon, Apple,…
Three Factor Authentication and The Law – Compelled Decryption by Biometric
We all know what multi-factor authentication is. Typically, it involves two of three classes of authentication; (1) something you know (a password or passphrase); (2) something you have (a token…
The Internet and Ebola
When Doctor Craig Spencer returned from West Africa to New York, having treated Ebola patients while wearing protective gear and being asymptomatic and non-infectious, he engaged in a rigorous course…
Gone Catfishing: Police, Subterfuge and the Internet
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Cops lie. They are allowed to. In the course of conducting investigations, they can go undercover, pretend to be other people,…
Is the FBI Really “Going Dark?”
FBI Director Comey complained about the problem of people, “going dark,” in a speech before the Brookings Institution on October 16, 2014. He explained, “the law hasn’t kept pace with technology, and…