For you military types, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): probably not. There are a number of reasons for my pessimism, including one I hadn’t considered. First the obvious reasons. The end of this legislative session is right around the corner and there are a lot of things that the folks in power want to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sequoia One is an outsourced HR vendor based in San Francisco that serves more than 500 venture-capital backed firms. According to a letter they sent to clients, an unauthorized party (like, say, perhaps, the Chinese government) accessed its cloud storage account. Data that the unauthorized party (AKA the hacker) accessed includes “name, addresses, dates of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Accounting firm Bansley & Kiener agreed to a $900k settlement to resolve a class action after a breach. The accounting firm was breached in December 2020 but did tell people about it. In May 2021 they discovered that information had been stolen. Side note: why did it take them six months to figure out that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain As if things weren’t hard enough for the cops, the ones that have been tracking down the bad crypto apples have discovered the grass is greener on the corporate side – a lot greener. And they are fleeing the government side, making things even harder for the remaining govies. Read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When privacy advocates question the immense sharing of data with others, at least some of them say that they don’t care; they have nothing to hide. Perhaps that is true. I’m kind of on the other side there. I don’t want folks to share my info unless I say so. For the most part, we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In September the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a law that allowed the police basically unlimited access to any video feed which the owner allows them to access – without a warrant or judicial oversight and basically, for an unlimited period of time (although there are some limited restraints on this). A coalition of […]
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