Hacking Team leak underscores complexity of regulating software
Among the 400 gigabytes of internal documents belonging to surveillance firm Hacking Team that were released online this week are details of the company's d…
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Which Cyberthreat Information Sharing Proposal You Should Support? (Hint: None)
It’s the season for “cyberthreat” information sharing proposals. There’s the White House plan, announced in January. There’s the Cybersecurity Information Shari…
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Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption
"“It’s part of what I think is going to be the next biggest fight that we see on surveillance as everyone starts to implement encryption,” said Jennifer Gr…
Podcast: Project Prism – Has Uncle Sam Gone Rogue?
It was hard to escape the big news this week: revelations from The Guardian and The Washington Post about a program of widespread surveillance of online social…
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Congressional Hearing Tomorrow on CFAA Reform
Tomorrow, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Before you start thinking, "it'…
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Revised Cybersecurity Act Needs Amendments for Privacy, Security
The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It's provisions expand the government's ability to conduct network surveil…
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New Cybersecurity Bill Available
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…