Mark Rasch

Cyber Law Editor

Security Current


Hunter Biden’s Laptop – Part Deux – Subpoena vs Warrant

Posted on: 27 Oct 2020

A report on Fox News’ website describes the grand jury subpoena issued for the seizure and search of a laptop computer assertedly belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.…

Blind Mac’s Bluff

Posted on: 16 Oct 2020

There’s currently a controversy around some Hunter Biden emails found on a laptop that he apparently flew from his home in Los Angeles and dropped off with a blind Mac repairman in…

Five [Prying] Eyes – Western Democracies Want Weaker Encryption

Posted on: 14 Oct 2020

The government thinks your emails are too secure. And your text messages. Oh, and your messaging apps. In fact, anything that relies on cryptography. Your messages are too secure in…

Cat Videos and National Security

Posted on: 18 Sep 2020

Unless someone blinks, this coming Sunday September 20, Chinese company ByteDance’s TikTok dies. The President’s executive order, which prohibits any “transactions” with ByteDance thereafter has now been clarified to note that…

Conceal and Fail to Report – The Uber CSO Indictment

Posted on: 21 Aug 2020

The InfoSec world has been atwitter over the indictment of former Uber CSO (and current Cloudflare CISO) Joe Sullivan on criminal charges related to the failure to report to the FTC a…

Gotta Book – Supreme Court Rules that Generic Words Coupled With Domain Suffix May Have Trademark Protection

Posted on: 30 Jun 2020

On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court held  that the company Booking.com could hold a valid federal trademark in the name “Booking.com” even though the term “booking” is a generic term for…

POST Haste – NYC Proposes Law to Require NYPD Disclose ALL Surveillance Techniques

Posted on: 26 Jun 2020

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? In the wake of allegations that the Customs and Border Patrol was running surveillance drones over protest sites in Minnesota and other places, and that government agencies were collecting…

What A Tulsa BLM Protesters Arrest Tells Us About Computer Crime

Posted on: 22 Jun 2020

This is not a political rant. I promise. Tulsa teacher Shelia Buck was arrested outside the President’s rally after campaign officials saw that she was wearing a t-shirt that said…

Qualified Impunity – Federal Appeals Court Rules

Posted on: 18 Jun 2020

No Constitutional Right to Information Privacy from Police Disclosure of Sexual Assault Victim Information to the Press On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the…

Federal Court Rules that Location Privacy Rights Depend on Technology Used to Invade It

Posted on: 18 Jun 2020

Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your whereabouts outside such that the government needs to get a search warrant to invade it? Magic 8 ball says —…