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Google Finds a Predator

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Cross posted from the Child Abuse Survivor site The tech world is alive with news that Google has helped locate and charge a predator based on scanning their email for child pornography images. Obviously, this is a case of a stupid criminal, if you’re going to share illegal images, using a cloud service provider that…

Wow..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Just when I spent last night thinking that my site traffic had slowed down somewhat since the outage this weekend, Chris mentions me in Today’s Lockergnome along with seven other blogs that he visits but which aren’t well known. (And are very good by the way!) Thanks Chris, and thanks for stopping by all you…

Gloomy morning

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Man what a gloomy start to the day we got here in Columbus. Rainy, gray, blah. It’s one of the few days I actually am glad my office doesn’t have any windows. The password switch didn’t go too badly, the ISP was kind enough to bend the rules a tad and send me a list…

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Magic Databases

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

I enjoyed reading this case review from Josh Gilliland about a ruling in regards to production of data from a database. As it turns out, the information being asked for from the database, wasn’t actually tracked in the database. As Josh says: However, there is a bigger issue: A database contains only what data it…

Linked – Tesla Model 3 keeps data like crash videos, location, phone contacts
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Linked – Tesla Model 3 keeps data like crash videos, location, phone contacts

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Is there a DBAN type tool out there to wipe the hard drive of your car before you sell it, or it gets hauled away from the site of a wreck? Maybe there should be: “The researchers shared records with CNBC that showed the car’s computers had stored data from at least 17 different devices….

These People Are In Charge of Making Laws About Technology

These People Are In Charge of Making Laws About Technology

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Granted, it has zero chance of passing as is, but the current bill before the US Senate, The Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, would actually make encryption a legal impossibility. The bill, Hall and Bankston point out, doesn’t specifically suggest any sort of backdoored encryption or other means to even attempt to balance…

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