INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is back, soaring 150% in 2020, and on Wednesday reached heights it hadn’t seen since 2017. Of course, if you dealt with a ransomware gang in the past three years, you know Bitcoin never left. You might have missed the news recently, overshadowed as it was by the [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Rhonda Foxx is the newly-minted Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagements at Intel. Before that, she was chief of staff for Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) and ran for Congress earlier this year. During a recent talk at Duke University, she called the current pandemic “a period of great reset.” It’s [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION In the U.S. media guilty of misinformation on disinformation? As election day fast approaches, election hacking continues to attract lots of attention. It’s a vague term that has been used to describe everything from nation-state actors changing voter registration records to politicians discrediting mail-in ballots. Perhaps nothing has caused [Keep reading]
(FBI image) INTRODUCTION It might be the worst-kept secret in all of cybersecurity: the FBI says don’t pay ransomware gangs. But corporations do it all the time, sending millions every year in Bitcoin to recover data that’s been taken “hostage.” Sometimes, federal agents even help victims find experienced virtual ransom [Keep reading]
Introduction “Privacy tends to lose when there is a clear public safety use case.” That means firms like Clearview AI, and everything else like it, is here to stay. Now what? That’s today’s “In Conversation.” Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill of The New York Times broke one of the most important [Keep reading]
An app that tells you if you were exposed to someone with Covid? Sounds great. But, as usual, tech-as-silver-bullet ideas come full of booby-traps. There’s been a lot of scattershot discussion around smartphone contact tracing during the past several months, with privacy advocates saying the harms far outweigh the benefits, [Keep reading]
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