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Why the Internet Does Not Replace Common Sense

Some people say that common sense isn’t so common anymore. Sometimes the Internet doesn’t seem to have much common sense, so those people might be right. Hopefully most adults can distinguish between smart things to do and not so smart things to do, but not always. Right after Apple and Google split over Google maps […]

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Senator to Introduce ‘Comprehensive’ Crypto Legislation

Senator Lummis from Wyoming plans to introduce legislation in early 2022 to attempt to rein in some of the wild west of the cryptocurrency world. Stay tuned. Rumor is that it will add investor protections, rein in stablecoins and create a self-regulatory body under the SEC and the CFTC. That might be a tall order […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 17, 2021

The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]

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Lloyd’s Tries to Define Acts of Cyberwar

Or at least standardized policy language on the subject. Cyber insurance policies have always had language excluding “hostile and warlike actions”, whatever the hell that means. What it means is full employment for lawyers. And a long time before you get paid. The Lloyd’s Market Association, the syndicate that drives Lloyd’s backed policies, has created […]

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