O P I N I O N Full disclosure: it will be obvious which side of the conversation I am on pretty quickly. The FBI has been trying to ban end to end encryption – any encryption that they can’t break at will – for decades now. They charged Phil Zimmerman with crimes and almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The White House last month released a document called the National Strategy to Secure 5G. This SIX PAGE document is a little light on details, but like your 10 year old who is assigned homework, the Secure 5G and Beyond Act requires the President to turn in his homework and he did. So what would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember that Real-ID Deadline we Were Worried About Since planes seem to be flying with less passengers than flight crew members these days – if they fly at all – the gov has decided to make some security changes. In addition to the fact that they are allowing you to bring a 12 ounce bottle […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For years U.S. telephone carriers have said that they can’t stop spam callers. Truth is that they make a lot of money from either sending or receiving these calls, so they had zero incentive to figure out a way to stop it. The problem would decrease a lot if you could believe the information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Very few of my readers run electric utilities – those are the ones that these regulations apply to directly. Then there are folks who are suppliers to utilities. And suppliers to those suppliers. The new regs require that utilities have a decent vendor cyber risk management program. That increases the pool of interested parties a […]
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