It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in an earlier post, after 9-11 Congress passed some major new surveillance laws. The idea was to increase surveillance in a move to try and find more terrorists. Congress also wasn’t completely sold on the idea, so the law sunsets every few years and Congress has to renew it. This is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that the tech industry follow the model of the financial services industry. Some of the big banks have created a messaging app with delete capability so to keep the regulators happy, they agreed to save a copy of each message for 7 years. Lets apply that to the tech industry […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent. That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer Cop is a piece of software that the maker sells to police departments for them to give out to the community. Departments buy thousands of copies, it appears for around $6 a copy ,and hands them out, hoping for donations. In some cases, they bought the software with seized drug money. There is only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Several months ago the White House floated a trial balloon about banning the use of personal cell phones by staffers in the West Wing due to security concerns. You may remember that John Kelly was using his personal cell phone for government business and it was owned by hackers for six months before he figured […]
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