"A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some of the highest-stakes settings, including national identity cards, software- and application-signing, and trusted platform modules protecting government and corporate computers."
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown put his signature on a bill to withdraw state resources from the enforcement of most federal immigration laws. While some people have argued this will open the door for immigrants to enter the U.S. through California and then spread into other states, the approach Texas took can minimize this…
"It affects the core WPA2 protocol itself and is effective against devices running the Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, and OpenBSD operating systems, as well as MediaTek Linksys, and other types of devices. The site warned attackers can exploit it to decrypt a wealth of sensitive data that's normally encrypted by the nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi encryption protocol."
This doesn't mean Americans should not defend our borders and protect our homes. That is a just war. But we should not be engaging in foreign adventurism either.
With the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to repeal Obamacare flaming out, not even getting a vote, one might wonder whether it was a lousy bill or if something else were amiss. As the bill seemed like pretty decent legislation, its failure to get a vote may be due to what the U.S. Senate has become. Today’s…
"'The only value of bitcoin is what the other guy'll pay for it,' Dimon said. On Thursday, Dimon said during a post-earnings conference call with media that he's 'not going to talk about bitcoin anymore.' The executive called bitcoin a 'fraud' in September and said it 'won't end well.'"
"While a court might be able to nullify a law by striking it down, I can also nullify the positive effects of exercise by eating too much pie."
Even though the CNN article focused on an event TAC organized in 2010, the "reporters" never even contacted us for the story.
On Monday, I appeared on the Mike Siegel Show. It turned out to be one of the more frustrating and contentious interviews I’ve done in a while. Siegel is totally on board with limiting the power of the federal government, and he understands that the Constitution delegated very few powers to the feds. But we are worlds…
"Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech on Tuesday about what he calls 'responsible encryption' today. It misses the mark, by far."