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Who Is Marcus Hutchins?: Security Researcher Community Worried?
"Dr. Richard Forno, director of Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offered a similar response, telling IBT bon…
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Steve Ballmer believes that facts about government spending can anchor public debate. Here’s how.
Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. He is also the creator of USAFacts, a website dedicated to orga…
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New VPN Ban in Russia Latest Step in Increasing Cyber Risk for US Companies
"Moreover, Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University, said the case in part “illustrates the difficulty of shutting down botnets…
Podcast: Access Denied
Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk…
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Senate Crackdown on Online Sex Trafficking Hits Opposition
"For Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, the bill’s language — in particular phrases like “assist, support or facilitate sex tr…
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Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
"It can be tempting to try to hide information or use technological tricks such as 'duress passwords' that, if used instead of the genuine one, unl…
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Google's US Challenge to the Canadian Global Delisting Order
In its Equustek ruling in June, the Canadian Supreme Court held that Google must delete search results for users everywhere in the world, based on Canadian law.…
Representative Ted Lieu in Defense of Global Justice
As mentioned last week by Jane Stromseth in her terrific post “Why the U.S. needs the Office of Global Criminal Justice Led by a Senate-Confirmed Ambassador-at-…
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A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
"The coalition has gathered 570,000 signatures urging Facebook to acknowledge discriminatory censorship exists on its platform, that it harbors white supre…
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That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.
"There’s a lot of uncertainty and fear out there, post-Gawker, said Nabiha Syed, BuzzFeed’s assistant general counsel, who vetted the story before publicat…
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How an online wedding registry in my name appeared out of thin air
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an expert on internet privacy, correctly captured my angst when he told me that…
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‘Textalyzer’ May Bust Distracted Drivers — But at What Cost to Privacy?
""We can't give the government the power to peer into everybody's digital lives indiscriminately, because that might create a bigger problem t…