Why do people usually use a VPN connection over the Internet? Usually it is for added security and privacy. What if a VPN offered security, but even less privacy than without it – would you use it? Well some people are and probably do not even know it. In 2013 Facebook bought an Israeli company, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote about the CLOUD Act last week, I expected this to happen; I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The CLOUD Act (see post) is an attempt by Congress to make it easier for U.S. law enforcement to force companies to respond to subpoenas for data when the data is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For at least 8 years the government has known that the border entry system has a hole large enough to drive a terrorist through, to abuse a phrase, and has not done anything about it. While the government was twisting the arms of other countries to put chips in their passports – and about a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been fighting with the Justice Department for years over some data Justice wants that Microsoft says is stored in Ireland. Justice says Microsoft can bring it back to the US and then they can subpoena it. Microsoft says doing that will break EU laws. The argument goes on. The current status is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If I seem a bit skeptical, that is because I am. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday that the Justice Department is going to form a committee to study the subject. Last week the leaders of several of the branches of the Intelligence Community testified before Congress saying, publicly, that the Russians did interfere with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
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