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Breaking Down the Hacking Case Against Julian Assange
"Is one failed attempt to crack a password really enough to embroil Assange in a felony hacking case? "For the CFAA, unfortunately yes," says Jef…
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Reply in Support of Objections to Report and Recommendation
Reply brief in support of January 2019 objections to magistrate judge's report and recommendation. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publication Date…
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Net Neutrality Battles Heat Up in Congress and Beyond
"Oral arguments before the three-judge panel were heard early this year, and a decision is expected in late spring or early summer. "The court could r…
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Dems Say Net Neutrality Bill Would Throttle 'Unjust' Practices
"But Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, characterized the repeal of net neutrality protecti…
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Restoring Net Neutrality Protections: An Analysis of H.R. 1096 vs. H.R. 1644
The following is the executive summary of an analysis I wrote looking at two bills in the House, both of which purport to restore the net neutrality protections…
H.R. 1096 vs. H.R. 1644
This week, the House will vote on H.R. 1644, introduced by Rep. Mike Doyle, which would reinstate the net neutrality protections of the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet…
BREAKING: Sri Lankan Presidential Hopeful Sued in Federal Court for Human Rights Violations
Human rights lawyers have sued Sri Lankan presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa in federal court in the Central District of California. Rajapaksa, who is a jo…
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Experts, club members disagree on how to secure Mar-a-Lago
"“I certainly doubt that patrons and also the president would endorse that level of security, given that it’s a commercial interest of his,” said Richard F…
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Details Still Few In City Of Albany’s Ransomware Attack
"Brian Nussbaum is assistant professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. "Ra…
Facebook is finally learning to love privacy laws
Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed. Last week, he called for the US and other c…
Smart is Not Enough
Abstract Despite increasing concern from the information security community, it is far from clear that even the smartest of U.S. cities are in a position to de…
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Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned
"“Courts and police are increasingly using software to make decisions in the criminal justice system about bail, sentencing, and probability-matching for D…