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| Jul 1, 2026 | German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words | Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues that the roll-out of AI-based services is ra... |
| Feb 1, 2026 | Заявки на PHDays Fest 2026: шанс стать спикером есть всегда | Практическое руководство по итогам анализа заявок прошлого года
Каждый год Call for Papers (CFP) на PHDays Fest собирает сотни заявок. В прошлом году их было 825 — и это хороший индикатор не только популярности фестиваля, деловую программу ... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Mandiant выпустила базу данных, которая позволяет взламывать слабые пароли NTLM за 12 часов | Компания Mandiant выпустила базу данных, которая позволяет взломать любой пароль администратора, защищённый устаревшим алгоритмом хеширования Microsoft NTLMv1. Эта база представляет собой радужную таблицу — заранее вычисленный набор хеш-зна... |
| Oct 12, 2025 | Изучая DevSecOps: подборка руководств и книг | Мы собрали открытые книги и статьи ведущих экспертов по кибербезопасности, а также руководства для желающих погрузиться в DevSecOps. Материалы из подборки расскажут, какие ИБ-практики можно называть самыми неэффективными и с чего начать защ... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Is Including Hidden AI Prompts In Academic Papers Gaming The Peer Review System — Or Keeping It Honest? | It seems to be part of human nature to try to game systems. That’s also true for technological systems, including the most recent iteration of AI, as the numerous examples of prompt injection exploits demonstrate. In the latest twist, an in... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Тайное уравнение, позволявшее США следить за всеми | 1.0 Введение
В 2006 году АНБ скрыла в криптографическом стандарте Dual EC DRBG математический бэкдор. Агентство отрицало его наличие восемь лет. Затем утечки Сноудена подтвердили его существование.
Двойные эллиптические кривые (Dual Ellipti... |
| Feb 8, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: February 2nd – 8th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, Facebook paid out a hefty settlement in a facial recognition lawsuit in Illinois, which looked like bad news for the also-just-sued new kid on the block: Clearview AI, about whom we were learning lots of di... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Закат национальных государств | «Национальное государство» — это в каком-то роде абстрактная сущность, которая объединяет группу людей (граждан). По сути эту абстракцию можно сравнить с концепцией «корпорации» — тоже виртуальной сущности, которая может «жить» столетиями, ... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Хакерские утилиты Дидье Стивенса | Дидье Стивенс — бельгийский разработчик и авторитетный специалист по информационной безопасности. Наиболее известен своими инструментами по взлому паролей Windows, анализу документов PDF и внедрению туда вредоносных файлов, а также как авто... |
| Dec 24, 2024 | The Rise of Self-Hosted AI: A New Era for Businesses | In the digital age, data is the new oil. Companies are realizing that to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), they must keep their data close to home. The trend is shifting from cloud computing back to self-hosting. This retur... |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Второе пришествие мейнфреймов. Всё больше компаний хотят запускать ИИ у себя в офисе | Мейнфрейм IBM z16 во время лабораторных тестов в 2022 г, источник
Приложения ИИ находят применение в бизнесе. Но есть проблема: корпоративные данные и документация представляют коммерческую тайну. Их нельзя передавать на сторону, тем более ... |
| Nov 29, 2024 | Шпионская сага: новые подробности в деле WhatsApp vs NSO Group | В США продолжается разбирательство между израильской компанией NSO Group (разработчик шпионского ПО Pegasus) и WhatsApp. Недавно в суде представили документы, которые доказывают, что именно NSO, а не её государственные клиенты, устанавливае... |
| Nov 27, 2024 | Bruce Schneier Joins FireCompass as Advisor to Shape the Future of AI-Powered Automated Penetration Testing | Renowned security technologist partners with AI-driven penetration testing leader to help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.
FireCompass' approach to automating penetration testing of complex, multi-stage attacks is the next leve... |
| Nov 27, 2024 | Методы моделирования атак на графах | Привет! С вами снова Даниил Нейман из отдела развития инициатив ИБ-сообществ. Это продолжение цикла статей о проблеме, с которой сталкивается специалист при анализе кибератак, — о сложности анализа без использования стандартизированных мето... |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Building a security-first culture for MSPs: Always ready, always protected | For IT professionals and MSPs, a company’s security posture is influenced not only by technology but also by its team's daily actions. Whether intentional or accidental, human behavior plays a significant role in either fortifying or underm... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Microsoft’s Security Overhaul: The Shift from ActiveX to Zero Trust DNS | In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, Microsoft is making bold moves. The tech giant is phasing out ActiveX controls in Office 2024 and introducing a new DNS system called Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS). These changes are not just tweaks... |
| Sep 8, 2024 | Инициатива по интеграции DNS в Windows 11 вызывает опасения экспертов | Как известно, процедура перевода доменных имён в IP-адреса (DNS-резолвинг) опасная по умолчанию. Поскольку в процессе отсутствует сквозное шифрование, то посторонний злоумышленник может получить доступ к этому трафику. Более того, он может ... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Как анонимно продать или купить крипту | Как известно, анонимность — одно из базовых прав человека. В мае 2015 года Совет по правам человека ООН опубликовала доклад, который прямо называет анонимное использование интернета частью базовых прав человека:
«Шифрование и анонимность по... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Соловьиная песня постквантового шифрования | Почти год назад я написал статью о постквантовой криптографии и в этом материале решил продолжить эту тему, поскольку с каждым годом приближается момент, когда криптография, какой мы её знаем сегодня, накроется медным тазом. С появлением кв... |
| Jun 2, 2024 | «OSS, который не смог», или почему использование open source решений вдолгую требует корпоративных компетенций | Open source продукты стали жизнеспособной альтернативой проприетарным решениям, покинувшим рынок. Однако российским организациям еще предстоит сформировать компетенции для того, чтобы перейти от операционного «латания дыр» к стратегическому... |
| May 19, 2024 | Слежка через пуш-уведомления на смартфонах | Недавно стало известно о новом виде слежки за пользователями смартфонов: через пуш-уведомления в iOS и Android. Газета Washington Post написала, в частности, что эту тактику начало использовать ФБР (кэш статьи).
Довольно интересно, как рабо... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices | Enlarge
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If you build a gadget that connects to the Internet and sell it in the United Kingdom, you can no longer make the default password "password." In fact, you're not supposed to have default pa... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | The Story Behind The XZ Backdoor Is Way More Fascinating Than It Should Be | Every few years, it seems, we’re reminded of the incredible number of dependencies built into the software we all rely on. Remember kik? Or Chef Sugar? Or any number of similar situations? The xkcd comic on dependency is so well known for a... |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Призыв писать компактное ПО, версия 2024 года (с примером кода) | Этот пост посвящён памяти Никлауса Вирта, первопроходца в сфере вычислительных наук, ушедшего от нас 1 января этого года. В 1995 году он написал важную статью A Plea for Lean Software, и в своём посте я постараюсь воспроизвести её почти три... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Плохой-хороший ИИ: как алгоритмы помогают хакерам и специалистам по ИБ | Компании активно используют ИИ-системы и чат-ботов в рабочих процессах, например, для создания регулярных выражений, паттернов проектирования и уточнения запросов. Роль таких решений продолжает расти и в сфере кибербезопасности — а также ки... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Юристы продолжают пользоваться MD5 только из-за своего консерватизма | Недавно я узнала один загадочный факт: Международный уголовный суд хэширует электронные доказательства при помощи MD5.
Что в этом плохого? MD5 ужасно поломан. Настолько поломан, что специалисты уже больше десятка лет говорят, что никто не д... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Обзор параллельных режимов работы хэш-функций | С каждым днем, по мере роста объема обрабатываемых данных, становится все более важным использование эффективных методов обработки. Особенно значимым является внедрение параллельных вычислительных архитектур для достижения высокой производи... |
| Dec 5, 2023 | Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier | Enlarge
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In an editorial for Slate published Monday, renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier warned that AI models may enable a new era of mass spying, allowing companies and governments to ... |
| Jul 16, 2023 | Технический долг захватил глобальную экономику | Технический долг стал проблемой для всей экономики
Термином «технический долг» обычно называют сокращённые или субоптимальные подходы в процессе разработки ПО. Проявляется он в виде неудачно спроектированного кода, устаревших компонентов и ... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Brave Browser is ending behind-the-back port scanning attacks | The next major version of Brave Browser, a Chromium-based browser with a focus on privacy, will prevent sites and apps from accessing local resources without user permission.
Most modern browsers allow access to local resources. In fact, ma... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Огораживаем доступ сайтов к localhost в Brave | Это двадцать седьмой пост из нашей серии о новых мерах защиты приватности и конфиденциальности в браузере Brave. Рассказываем о новой технологии, ограничивающей доступ сайтов к localhost-ресурсам.
Начиная с версии 1.54, Brave на десктопах и... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Security Week 2317: подробности атаки supply chain на компанию 3CX | В начале апреля мы писали об атаке на компанию 3CX. Эта атака относится к классу supply chain: в таких случаях не только компрометируется корпоративная сеть жертвы, но и возникает опасность заражения других компаний по цепочке поставок. В д... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security | Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled together “Project Texas” as an atte... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Export Control is Not a Magic Bullet for Cyber Mercenaries | In 2023, it is now possible for any government or private company to get access to your most intimate secrets. How? By paying a company to hack into your phone. Since the early 2010s, news of private companies that sell spyware and other of... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Where the New National Cybersecurity Strategy Differs From Past Practice | On March 2, the Office of the National Cyber Director released the public version of the long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy. This document is intended to provide strategic guidance for how the United States should protect its digi... |
| Feb 8, 2023 | CNET Insiders Say Tech Outlet Softened Coverage To Please Advertisers | It hasn’t been a great few weeks for CNET. |
| Jan 19, 2023 | A Federal Cyber Insurance Backstop Is Premature | Political conflict makes private insurers uncomfortable and has for a very long time. For example, as tension grew in the lead-up to World War I, the insurance industry considered excluding war-related losses from maritime policies—the cons... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | How to Hack Blockchain: Quantum Computer Specifications Described by Experts | Contents 372 physical qubits is enough to break RSA-2048No worries, experts say
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As a result, a potential attacker needs 372 physical qubits to break the RSA-2048 scheme. To provide context, QuEra Computing device by physicists at Harvar... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem | In August, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer” designed to make it harder to trace cryptocurrency transactions—and a worldwide favorite ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Централизация как фактор сдерживания развития безопасных коммуникаций | Предисловие
Весь нижеизложенный текст является составной частью более общей теории излагаемой в теоретико-научной статье "Теория строения скрытых систем". Данная статья описывает становление анонимности через её формации посредств... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Rethinking Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security | The Biden administration has pointed, with alarm, to the national security implications of both cybersecurity and cryptocurrency. It’s just a matter of time before the government begins worrying about their intersection—cryptocurrency secur... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | The TSA Is Hot Garbage. And We Will Never Be Rid Of It. | The terrorists won. And it wasn’t a small victory. It was one that managed to make the American way of life significantly worse for anyone attempting to fly. Flying is how we get around in this sprawl of a nation that encompasses 50 states ... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Hack Post-Quantum Cryptography Now So That Bad Actors Don’t Do It Later | In February, a researcher sent a shock wave through the cryptography community by claiming that an algorithm that might become a cornerstone of the next generation of internet encryption can be cracked mathematically using a single laptop. ... |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Another Issue With Internet Antitrust Bills: Sloppy Drafting Could Lead To Problems For Encryption | As the big push is on to approve two internet-focused antitrust bills, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and the Open App Markets Act, we’ve been calling out that while the overall intentions of both may be good, there a... |
| May 17, 2022 | Impending Threat of Abortion Criminalization Brings New Urgency to the Fight for Digital Privacy | As the shockwaves from the bombshell publication of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade continue to reverberate, questions and fears about our digital privacy and what comes next abound. To be clear: Right now, abor... |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Хакерский квест RUVDS подходит к концу, но сразиться за главный приз 142 857 рублей еще не поздно | Пока участники квеста готовятся к финальным испытаниям, а снег потихоньку тает в городах, расскажем для тех, кто пропустил начало, о пройденных этапах интерактивного хакатона, и что ждать от финала.
Напомним, с чего всё началось: участники ... |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Развитие сетевых архитектур и движение моделей | Предисловие
Весь нижеизложенный текст является составной частью более общей теории излагаемой в теоретико-начной статье "Теория строения скрытых систем". Данная статья описывает становление анонимности через её формации посредство... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Rupert Murdochizing The Internet | The theme of this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is, “Be careful what you wish for.“ Techlash regulation is burgeoning around the world. Mark MacCarthy takes us through a week’s worth of regulatory enthusiasm. Canada is planning to force G... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | The Open App Markets Bill Moves Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee | On Feb. 3, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved S.2710, the Open App Markets Act, with an impressive bipartisan vote of 20-2. The bill’s narrow focus on competition problems in the mobile app ecosystem might give it a better chance of mo... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Ad-Based Internet: Is The Roof Caving In, Or Just A Few Rafters? | Another week, another industry-shaking antitrust bill from Senate Judiciary: This time, it’s the Open App Store Act, and Mark MacCarthy reports that it’s got more bipartisan support than the last one. Maybe that’s because there are only two... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Google Experiment Is Adding Favicons to Ads | Online ads may be on the verge changing significantly, with Google testing favicons within ads.
Favicons are those little icons that show up in browser tabs when visiting certain websites. They’re a way for websites to add a little more bra... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Google Experiment Is Adding Favicons to Ads | Online ads may be on the verge changing significantly, with Google testing favicons within ads.
Favicons are those little icons that show up in browser tabs when visiting certain websites. They’re a way for websites to add a little more bra... |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Understanding the Offense’s Systemwide Advantage in Cyberspace | The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released on Dec. 11 a statement on the massive log4j vulnerability, one of the worst the internet has ever seen. This is just the latest in a string of some of the most brazen and dangero... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Неслучайная случайность — о роли ГПСЧ в нашей жизни | На сегодняшний день случайность повсеместно используется в нашей жизни. Она есть в научных работах и исследовательских моделях, защитных алгоритмах и криптосистемах, в лотереях и азартных играх, системах автоматизации и математике. Сейчас я... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Apple’s Plan To Scan Your Phone Raises The Stakes On A Key Question: Can You Trust Big Tech? | Apple has developed the means to scan images on your phone. Can you trust the company to protect your privacy? Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Apple’s plan to scan customers’ phones and other devices for images depic... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Apple’s Plan To Scan Your Phone Raises The Stakes On A Key Question: Can You Trust Big Tech? | Apple has developed the means to scan images on your phone. Can you trust the company to protect your privacy? Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Researchers Who Built Similar System Explain Why Apple's CSAM Scanning System Is Dangerous | Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton University professor and former chief technologist at the FTC, is one of the smartest people I know. Every time I’ve spoken with him I feel like I learn something. He’s now written a quite interesting article for... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Researchers Who Built Similar System Explain Why Apple's CSAM Scanning System Is Dangerous | Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton University professor and former chief technologist at the FTC, is one of the smartest people I know. Every time I've spoken with him I feel like I learn something. He's now written a quite interesting article for... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | The controversy over Apple’s plan to protect kids by scanning your iPhone | Apple, the company that proudly touted its user privacy bona fides in its recent iOS 15 preview, recently introduced a feature that seems to run counter to its privacy-first ethos: the ability to scan iPhone photos and alert the authorities... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | COVID-19 Shows What Innovation Looks Like Without Patents (Spoiler: It Works) | This post is one of a series of posts we're running this week in support of Patent Quality Week, exploring how better patent quality is key to stopping efforts that hinder innovation. |
| Jul 22, 2021 | COVID-19 Shows What Innovation Looks Like Without Patents (Spoiler: It Works) | This post is one of a series of posts we’re running this week in support of Patent Quality Week, exploring how better patent quality is key to stopping efforts that hinder innovation. |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Document Management Startup DoxyChain Is Looking to Raise 2 million EUR in 2021 | Warsaw-based DoxyChain hopes for a 2 million EUR seed round in 2021
The startup uses blockchain to secure and automate document management for SMEs
DoxyChain has 18 employees and raised 250,000 EUR to date
After securing almost 250,000 EUR... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Lot of Cybersecurity Measures That Don't Work, And A Few That Might | We’re mostly back to our cybersecurity roots in this episode, for good reasons and bad. The worst of the bad reasons is a new set of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange servers. They’ve been patched, Bruce Schneier tells us, bu... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | A Hacker Was Selling a Cybersecurity Exploit as an NFT. Then OpenSea Stepped In | With all the attention currently on non-fungible tokens (NFTs), there may be a new, darker side emerging – the auctioning of cybersecurity exploits.
In a tweet Monday, Matthew Hickey of Hacker House introduced the “zero-day collection,” an ... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | How to Think About Chinese-Owned Technology Platforms Operating in the United States | Today the technology and law programs that we supervise at the American University Washington College of Law and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, are publishing a report entitled “Chinese Technology Platforms Operating in the ... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Well, Have You Ever Seen Dr. Octopus and Sen. Klobuchar Together? | This episode features a deep dive into the National Security Agency’s (NSA) self-regulatory approach to overseas signals intelligence, or SIGINT. Frequent contributor David Kris takes us into the details of the SIGINT Annex that governs NSA... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Don’t make these cyber resiliency mistakes | Image: iStockphoto/gorodenkoff
Cybersecurity professionals are tired of losing ground to cybercriminals, so they are working with members of their companies’ C-suites and boards of directors to put in place a process that some deem is more ... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | SolarWinds Is Bad, but Retreat From Defend Forward Would Be Worse | The SolarWinds breach has kicked up a lot of dust. It’s thick, obscuring and deeply concerning. It’s also a long way from settling. But that hasn’t slowed the quick and steady drumbeat of postmortems declaring the shortcomings or outright f... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | How China’s Control of Information is a Cyber Weakness | In 2015, news broke that Chinese hackers had breached computer networks at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, exposing the personal data of millions of government employees. In response, the White House took the initiative to improve ... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Could Kim Jong Un Kill 90% of All Americans Today? | This episode’s interview with Dr. Peter Pry of the EMP Commission raises an awkward question: Is it possible that North Korea has already developed nuclear weapons that could cause the deaths of hundreds of millions of Americans by permanen... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Fight Like a Canadian | This episode features an interview with Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. We talk about his new book, “Reset: Rec... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | House Passes Bill To Address The Internet Of Broken Things | Though it doesn’t grab the same headline attention as the silly and pointless TikTok ban, the lack of security and privacy standards in the internet of things (IOT) is arguably a much bigger problem. TikTok is, after all, just one app, hoov... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | House Passes Bill To Address The Internet Of Broken Things | Though it doesn't grab the same headline attention as the silly and pointless TikTok ban, the lack of security and privacy standards in the internet of things (IOT) is arguably a much bigger problem. TikTok is, after all, just one app, hoov... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Consumer Reports Study Shows Many 'Smart' Doorbells Are Dumb, Lack Basic Security | Like most internet of broken things products, we've noted how "smart" devices quite often aren't all that smart. More than a few times we've written about smart lock consumers getting locked out of their own homes without much rec... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Consumer Reports Study Shows Many 'Smart' Doorbells Are Dumb, Lack Basic Security | Like most internet of broken things products, we’ve noted how “smart” devices quite often aren’t all that smart. More than a few times we’ve written about smart lock consumers getting locked out of their own homes without much recourse. Oth... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Quality issues may be the stumbling block in the race for contact tracing apps | The world is in a rush to find ways to fight Covid-19. This urgency makes sense for a pandemic that has killed more than a half-million people since it began in late December. But if the quality of these solutions is subpar, then users may ... |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Tradeoffs: Facebook Helping The FBI Hack Tails To Track Down A Truly Awful Child Predator Raises Many Questions | Last week, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at Vice had a bombshell of a story about Facebook helping the FBI track down a horrible, horrible person by paying a cybersecurity firm to build a zero-day attack on Tails, the secure operating syste... |
| May 27, 2020 | Our First Greenhouse Topic: Privacy | For decades the internet has flourished on the back of innovation, creativity, adaptation, and hard work. But while this technological revolution spurred no limit of incredible inventions, services, and profit, a drumbeat of scandals have h... |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Resistance to the new data colonialism must start now | We are told this is a time of hard choices, a time when emergency tracking measures via our digital devices are necessary if any return to normal life post-COVID-19 is possible.
We are told that one part of the planet (“the East”) had these... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Software Liability Is Just a Starting Point | The Cyberspace Solarium Commission places an admirable focus on the security of the software ecosystem and lays out several policy levers to improve it, including proposing liability for the “final goods assemblers” of software that fail to... |
| Apr 18, 2020 | Thought Web Tracking Was Scary? Tech Is Bringing Total Surveillance to Our Doors | CCTV. Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash |
| Apr 18, 2020 | Thought Web Tracking Was Scary? Tech Is Bringing Total Surveillance to Our Doors | CCTV. Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash
Web tracking is no longer an odd thing; everyone, from tech giants to small businesses, is doing it one way or another. Web tracking has become more prominent now that there is a growing demand for b... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | FTC The Latest To Discover 'Smart' Locks Are Dumb, Easily Compromised | Like most internet of broken things products, we’ve noted how “smart” door locks often aren’t all that smart. More than a few times we’ve written about smart lock consumers getting locked out of their own homes without much recourse. Other ... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | FTC The Latest To Discover 'Smart' Locks Are Dumb, Easily Compromised | Like most internet of broken things products, we've noted how "smart" door locks often aren't all that smart. More than a few times we've written about smart lock consumers getting locked out of their own homes without much recour... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Is Twitter Using the Health Emergency to Settle Political Scores? | Nate Jones and I dig deep into Twitter’s decision to delete Rudy Giuliani’s tweet (quoting Charlie Kirk of Turning Point) to the effect that hydroxychloroquine had been shown to be 100% effective against the coronavirus, which also alleged ... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Disease Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment | Like governments around the world, the United States is struggling with the “coronavirus trilemma”: It wants to protect lives, ease social isolation, and protect privacy and civil liberties, but it can do only two of those at the same time.... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Security, Privacy and the Coronavirus: Lessons From 9/11 | A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, I entered the Mott House on Maryland Avenue, not far from the Senate. The national D.C. office of the ACLU was hosting a somber meeting of privacy and civil liberties experts from across the political spectr... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Government Surveillance in an Age of Pandemics | For most people—and especially Lawfare readers—the word “surveillance” conjures up images of law enforcement investigations and foreign intelligence operations. But surveillance plays a major role in an equally important way of keeping peop... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing | The vicissitudes of social distancing have taken many people by surprise, making video calls a new necessity for distant socializing. But which of the two-dozen apps out there should you and your (perhaps not as tech-savvy) friends and fami... |
| Mar 8, 2020 | Burn the EARN IT Act | I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this isn’t even about the pandemic. Rather, it’s about the spectacularly misguided, counterproductive, expensive, and overbearing approach to end-to-end e... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | Law Enforcement Official Claims Citizens Use Better Encryption Than Cops Do | Arguing against encryption is a popular law enforcement pastime. The problem is there really aren't many good arguments to be made against the use of encryption, so people like Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray have to ... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | Law Enforcement Official Claims Citizens Use Better Encryption Than Cops Do | Arguing against encryption is a popular law enforcement pastime. The problem is there really aren’t many good arguments to be made against the use of encryption, so people like Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray have to ... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | UL Pushes Security Standards For The Internet Of Broken Things | If you hadn't noticed yet, the internet of things is a security and privacy shit show. Millions of poorly-secured internet-connected devices are now being sold annually, introducing massive new attack vectors and vulnerabilities into home a... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | UL Pushes Security Standards For The Internet Of Broken Things | If you hadn’t noticed yet, the internet of things is a security and privacy shit show. Millions of poorly-secured internet-connected devices are now being sold annually, introducing massive new attack vectors and vulnerabilities into home a... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | How Decentralized Tech Can End the Privacy Crisis in 2020 | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Tor Bair is the Head of Growth for Enigma, an open-source, decentralized protocol for secure com... |
| Dec 4, 2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Right to be Forgotten Shoots the Shark | This Week in the Great Decoupling: The Commerce Department has rolled out proposed telecom and supply chain security rules that never once mention China. More accurately, the Department has rolled out a sketch of its preliminary thinking ab... |
| Oct 23, 2019 | Encryption and Combating Child Exploitation Imagery | Child exploitation images are a horrific problem. Even the most clinical descriptions (such as the 23 sites described in the Freedom Hosting NIT warrant application) turn the stomach and chill the soul. Many individuals and companies, such ... |
| Oct 22, 2019 | Rethinking Encryption | I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It
From 2012 to 2014, I worked for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund located in Connecticut. Bridgewater seeks to operate consistent with a set of principles articulated by its founder, Ray Dalio. Over th... |
| Oct 15, 2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Has China Opened a Quantum Hype Lead over the U.S.? | Our interview is with Sultan Meghji, CEO of Neocova. We cover the large Chinese investment in quantum technology and what it means for the United States. It’s possible that Chinese physicists are even better than American physicists at extr... |
