Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]White House Cyber Official to Depart Rob Knake, who served as deputy national cyber director for budget and policy and a key drafter of the National cyber strategy is leaving this week. Following Chris Inglis resignation a few months ago, this represents a problem in pushing the administration’s cyber strategy. Some lawmakers are supporting nominating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the feds to spy on Americans – more on that in a later post – but there are rules regarding the spying on Americans. Most of the time the FBI and others follow these rules, but not always. The Act was passed after 9/11 but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI, especially generative AI from Large Language Models is THE hot item right now, but other forms of AI are also gaining rapid popularity and specifically that is AI deep fakes of images and videos. One concern that is on the mind of most politicians as we move into the 2024 election cycle is deep […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is always a dark side to any piece of tech. AI is no exception. Dozens of verified Twitter accounts with large numbers of followers showed this picture today. Only the photo posted on Twitter did not have a big red FAKE on it. Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and RT posted an image of a large, gray smoke […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]