FDA Begins Process to Change Patching of Medical Devices The Food and Drug administration is beginning to understand that their 19th century strategy that requires manufacturers to recertify their products every time they apply a patch only leads to the devices being hacked – which they are being, regularly. They have also asked Congress for […]
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]The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or FISA Court has affirmed that the Feds do not need a warrant to search your email. Of course, if that email is encrypted – not like GMail, but with real encryption – then while they may have the FISA court’s permission to look at it, they will have to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]HR 4681, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was signed into law on December 19th, 2014 and provides funding for the intelligence community until next September. The bill and now law contains one section – section 309 – that deals with the collection, retention and sharing of information collected by the intelligence community. Because […]
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