This week, President Trump extended the TikTok ban again, for the third time, despite not providing any legal justification for such an extension. Marty Schwimmer blogged about a Northern District of Illinois Judge who is reassessing all of his Schedule-A cases. Finally, a look at the Trump Administration’s recent executive order which dismantles many of…
Category: Security
Links for Week of April 25, 2025
This week, I liked the article by Geoff Huston giving the background on the current Internet Governance regime. Professor Goldman had a nice post about a recent 9th Circuit decision that turns our normal conceptions of internet jurisdiction on their head. Finally, an update on the Google antitrust case as it heads into the remedy…
Links for Week of April 4, 2025
This week, Bruce Schneier had several good posts on phishing, data integrity, and security at border crossings. I’m enjoying ABA Techshow, and got to hear Cory Doctorow speak about the current state of the Internet. Border Crossing Security Phishing Can Happen to Anyone Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
Links for Week of March 28, 2025
This week, there has been more movement and discussion about revising Section 230. The Trump administration is apparently using Signal for highly confidential and top secret discussions, and added a reporter to those discussions. Finally, I liked Professor Guadamuz’s post about the end of digital property. Section 230 Signal controversy Digital Property
Links for Week of February 7, 2025
Here’s a scary one – certain apps that had been approved to be on the Apple and Google Play app stores were found to have malware that used OCR on the device’s photo library to look for stored crypto passwords. New allegations were made that Meta torrented 81.7 terrabytes of pirated content to train its…
Links for Week of January 24, 2025
This week, President Trump issued an executive order delaying enforcement against TikTok, but which raised a number of uncertainties. Among the flurry of other executive orders, the Biden Administration’s AI Safety order was rescinded. I liked the IAPP’s explanation of those issues. Finally, I liked this article describing the first password on the Internet. TikTok…
Links for Week of January 17, 2025
Today, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the TikTok ban. Lots of commentary to be had there. In other news, the FBI forced some Chinese malware to delete itself this week from thousands of US computers. TikTok Ban – TikTok v Garland Deletion of Chinese Malware
Links for Week of December 27, 2024
Happy Holidays! Be careful out there – scammers can hack Google Forms to send official looking emails from Google.com, so merely looking at just the domain of where the phishing email is coming from is not always enough. This person lost a lot of cryptocurrency. Techdirt had a nice post on the victory by the…
Links for Week of December 13, 2024
This week, there were several articles revolving around the liability of chatbot operators for teen suicides linked thereto. Apple is facing a lawsuit saying they did not do enough to remove CSAM from their services. Chatbot Operator Liability for Teen Suicide Apple CSAM Lawsuit
Links for Week of October 4, 2024
This week, I liked the article which Bruce Schneier linked to about NIST’s updated password guidelines. I also liked the case discussion over the recent Alexander v. Take Two case, where there was infringement of the copyright, but the tattoo artist got zero damages. Finally, I should have linked to this last week, but my…