2014 Year In Review – Privacy and Security
Wow, what a year 2014 was. Most people write a “year in review” at the end of the year. I decided to beat the rush and write my 2014 privacy and security…
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Wow, what a year 2014 was. Most people write a “year in review” at the end of the year. I decided to beat the rush and write my 2014 privacy and security…
DetailsLooking Forward and Back at the US Court Ruling on the NSA Data Mining
In a groundbreaking and precedent-setting decision, United States District Judge Richard Leon on December 16 found that the NSA’s previously secret program to capture the “metadata” in every single telephone…
DetailsDon’t Spy On Me, I’d Rather Be Safe
In this space, guest contributor Gail Bronson defended the NSA’s mass surveillance program, taking the side of former NSA General Counsel Stew Baker against that of Georgetown University professor David…
DetailsLegal Issues in Penetration Testing
When I was a kid growing up in the Bronx, a high school buddy got a job as a “security tester” at the Alexander’s department store on Fordham Road. His job…
DetailsDistributed Denial of Service Attacks – Who is Legally Liable?
It seems that the Obamacare website, http://www.healthcare.gov, has had a spot of trouble lately. However, obscured in all the debate over the policy of the Affordable Care Act and all…
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