Law enforcement’s response to the announcement by Apple (and later Google’s Android) that it would be encrypting by default the contents of users’ phones was met with predictable outrage by some representatives of the law enforcement community. This outrage is fundamentally misplaced, and shows just how “out of the loop” the law enforcement and intelligence…
DetailsI recently wrote about the efforts by the U.S. Government to force Microsoft to deliver the contents of a customer’s e-mail located in Dublin, Ireland. The Court in New York ruled that the computer giant had to deliver to the U.S. grand jury the contents of someone else’s e-mails (not Microsoft’s) in a foreign country,…
DetailsIn the past few days, there have been reports that Comcast, the Philadelphia-based Internet giant (and broadcast giant, and content giant, and giant giant) has been monitoring its users’ activities and has been blocking users’ use of TOR privacy enhancing services. The reports have indicated that Comcast considers the use of TOR to be in furtherance…
DetailsThere is a predictable pattern when it comes to a data breach. First, the company involves touts its “state of the art” security. Please, come to us — share your most intimate information with us. We use “state of the art” or globally recognized or some other euphemism for “we do what everyone else does”…
DetailsWhen asked about the Internet, Gertrude Stein famously remarked, “there is no there, there.” Well, maybe it wasn’t about the Internet. On September 7, in a federal court in New York, Microsoft indicated that it was not going to comply with an order from the Court compelling it to produce to the United States government…
DetailsMuch has been said today about the Ray Rice affair. For those not paying attention, the former NFL player and former Baltimore Ravens running back not only hit his then fiancée (now wife) so hard that he knocked her unconscious, but the videotape unveiled today shows exactly what happened. Although the Atlantic City police department…
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