In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged.” https:...
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the enforcement of US laws should be seen as an urgent argument for strengthening encryption, not weakening it
Riana Pfefferkorn / Stanford CIS Blog : Tweets: @hipsterelectron , @decryption , and @christophera Tweets: @hipsterelectron : another bit that made my eyes widen: diffie-hellman key exchange was publ...
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues inside the Apple Park vacuum while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market. Tweets: @evacide , @matthew_d_green , @timsweeneyepic , @neilcybart , @...
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Ben Werdmuller / @benwerd : For better or worse, these changes will be a major accelerant for decentralization. Protocols don't host. https://www.protocol.com/... Chris...
Two former Twitter employees say more than 1,000 staff and contractors had access to internal tools to change account settings and ownership as of early 2020
the bathroom is over there, and here's the admin rights to start a nuclear war https://www.reuters.com/... Mike Murphy / @mcwm : 1,000 seems like... a lot https://www.reuters.com/... Tiffany C. Li / @...
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusiness , @gigibsohn , @...
Hacker steals 900GB of data from Cellebrite, the Israeli company that makes products for breaking into mobile phones
Saturday, January 14, 2016 Cellebrite : Petah Tikvah, IL—January 12, 2017—Cellebrite recently experienced … Tim Cushing / Techdirt : Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And...