What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

Screen Time: Conclusions About the Effects of Digital Media Are Often Incomplete, Irrelevant, or Wrong/a> Cybersecurity – What Keeps Us Up at Night Chrome Will Kill Tracking Cookies… by 2022 Degradation: How TIFF+ Disrupts Search Top 10 Predictions for the Legal Tech Job Market 2020 Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: YouTube Says That Frank…

Linked: Defense Department To Congress: ‘No, Wait, Encryption Is Actually Good; Don’t Break It’
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Linked: Defense Department To Congress: ‘No, Wait, Encryption Is Actually Good; Don’t Break It’

But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, the Senate was threatening tech companies that they will be requiring them to break encryption. But, not everyone in the Federal government agrees: “However, it appears that other parts of the government are a bit more up to date on these things. Representative Ro Khanna has forwarded a letter to…

Linked: Congress Tells Tech Companies: Take Action on Encryption or We Will
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Linked: Congress Tells Tech Companies: Take Action on Encryption or We Will

I agree with Sharon on this: “Backdoors don’t work. Government raises sensitive issues around human trafficking and child pornography to inflame the public. What it really wants is to snoop at will on everyone and to deprive Americans of our right to privacy. My opinion, but there it is.” The thing is, while the media…

Linked: The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
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Linked: The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Bruce is right on here: “In his keynote address at the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Attorney General William Barr argued that companies should weaken encryption systems to gain access to consumer devices for criminal investigations. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: “After all, we are not talking…

Linked: Ransomware Attack Hits Local Governments In Texas
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Linked: Ransomware Attack Hits Local Governments In Texas

This seems to be happening a lot:   “A coordinated ransomware attack has affected at least 20 local government entities in Texas, the Texas Department of Information Resources said. It would not release information about which local governments have been affected.” I’ve seen numerous stories in recent days about local governments, school districts, etc. getting…

Linked: Facebook Denies That it Plans to Backdoor WhatsApp
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Linked: Facebook Denies That it Plans to Backdoor WhatsApp

If Sharon, and others, are right about this, on the other hand, they won’t have to:   “There are many cybersecurity experts who believe it is only be a matter of time before device manufacturers and mobile operating system developers embed similar tools directly into devices themselves, making them impossible to escape. Embedding content scanning…