I’m studying up on CISPA for a segment on our webshow. Even though you’ve heard CISPA and SOPA and PIPA and online privacy so many times it’s like an audible, political Rickroll….even so, you should give a great big rat’s ass. Here is the cliff’s notes version of why: The constitution says your stuff can’t be searched […]
Category: Law and Politics
23 Pieces of News and Fluffery (Feb 9-15)
I have a news segment on DBAs@Midnight (our live weekly webshow, tune in tonight at 11pm Central time), but there’s no way I can get to everything that’s happened in the last few days! So, here’s your weekly news update. Actual News CISPA is back, as I mentioned on Tuesday. @MidnightDBA: Great. CISPA 2 be […]
#CISPA’s Coming Back: Time to Pay Attention Again
Update: The President’s cybersecurity Executive Order was signed and released today (see the Wired article). “Although the order comes after a number of failed attempts by Congress last year to pass cybersecurity legislation, the White House has indicated that it doesn’t see the executive order as a substitute for legislation, and the order even indicates […]