Earlier today, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21. Early reports are that most of the more significant privacy-related amendments were rejected, as was the proposal to eliminate DHS’s status as the…
A debate is currently raging between FBI Director James Comey and much of the technology community over whether law enforcement should have some sort of special access, which has been called a backdoor, into encrypted communications and data.[1] In…
As Wells reported Monday, the Third Circuit has issued its decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Readers may recall the background of the case. Wyndham was hacked by a Russian criminal gang who stole a host of personally…
The results are in. Lawfare’s “Name that Database” contest is now closed. All we can say is that Lawfare readers are a remarkably creative—and scary—bunch of folks. Some of these ideas are really quite spectacular. The results are in. Lawfare’s “Name…
Ben’s list of unclassified databases for the Chinese to steal is just too much fun not to follow up. At the risk of piling on, here are a few more that a good Chinese spy ought to look at: Ben’s list of unclassified databases for the Chinese to steal…
