by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals
from the no-more-flash-or-java-in-fighter-jets dept. Last night before the State of the Union speech, President Obama signed an executive order for improving cybersecurity of critical infrastructure (PDF). The highlights of the order are: ‘information sharing...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 11, 2013 | LAW, POLITICAL
from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept. “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Friday that they plan to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the everyone’s-favorite-law dept. “From the article: ‘A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the give-me-back-my-stapler dept. John Foley at InformationWeek has an editorial saying that the missing piece in the new gun control legislation is adequate data management. ‘President Obama introduced 23 executive orders on Jan. 16 aimed at reducing gun...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the oh-don’t-you-worry dept. Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden, warned European citizens not to use cloud services hosted in the U.S. over spying fears. Bowden, former privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, explained at a panel discussion hosted at the...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the power-to-the-people dept. Now that the ridiculous phone unlocking law is a done deal, and we all understand exactly what that means (i.e., ‘fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years’), you might be left wondering what can you do...
