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Governance

Issues relating to government, civics, and justice.

WYSK

WYSK: 03/17/2023

This Week: OGT: Democracy; 1. SVB Response; 2. Putin's Warrant; 3. French Pensions; 4. Google Antitrust.

Cybersecurity

WYSK: 03/10/2023

This Week: OGT: Ocean Treaty; 1. Norfolk Southern; 2. Ring Warrants; 3. Bar Breach; 4. DoD Pushback.

Cybersecurity

WYSK: 03/03/23

This Week: OGT: Drought Reduction; 1. BetterHealth Settlement; 2. Cyber Strategy; 3. SNAP Benefits; 4. Brain Images.

WYSK

WYSK: 08/12/22

This Week: OGT: Beagle Release; 1. Trump Warrant; 2. Salman Rushdie; 3. Inflation Reduction; 4. EdTech Spying.

WYSK

WYSK: 07/22/22

This Week: OGT: Tiger Populations; 1. Amazon Medical; 2. January 6; 3. Cyberspace Reality; 4. Zuck/Sandberg Deposition

WYSK

WYSK: 07/15/22

This Week: OGT: James Webb Telescope; 1. Uber Files; 2. Sentiment Analysis; 3. Ring Video; 4. Prison Labor

WYSK

WYSK: 07/01/22

This Week: 0. One Good Thing; 1. Modern Babel; 2. EPA Ruling; 3. China Hack; 4. Squid Game

WYSK

WYSK: 06/24/22

This Week: 0. One Good Thing; 1. Dead Voices; 2. Metaverse Standards; 3. Money and Speech; 4. Coercive Prediction

WYSK

WYSK: 06/17/22

This Week: 0. One Good Thing; 1. Patient Data; 2. EdTech Collection; 3. Location Legislation; 4. Amazon TOT

WYSK

WYSK: 05/06/22

This Week: 1. Dutch Algorithms; 2. Solomon Islands; 3. DSA Act; 4. Abortion Draft

WYSK

WYSK: 04/08/22

This Week: 1. AirTag Stalking; 2. Law Inequality; 3. Organ Transplantation; 4. Facebook Sanctions

WYSK

WYSK: 03/25/22

This Week: 1. Quitting Prime; 2. Gas Prices; 3. ICS Security; 4. Lapsus$

Cybersecurity

Open Source and Apple Pie

Software security can be achieved through liability; companies must be responsible for software they choose to adopt.

Cybersecurity

Critical Infrastructure Security

A quick US Critical Infrastructure Security primer, largely based on a report from the Congressional Research Service. What is Critical Infrastructure Security, what regulations govern it, and how has it been done so far?

Governance

Biodiversity Losses

The earth is losing biodiversity at a catastrophic rate during Earth's 6th mass extinction event. Urgent action is needed to slow and reverse the effects that we can.

Governance

Section 230: Challenges and Enforcement

While allowing companies to be recognized as Information Content Providers as defined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act comes with challenges, the enforcement benefits exceed the risks.

Governance

Section 230: Reinterpret, don't Abolish

When they provide a curated subset of the content they believe will be most relevant or meaningful, companies create new content and become Information Content Providers as defined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

QuickThoughts

The Rubicon Theory of Social Media

Social media's stated function as a vehicle for relationship and connection is generally inaccurate. Instead, social media's structure most often causes users' mindsets to become more aggressive, overconfident, and less rational.

Cybersecurity

Ransomware as Pain: heeding pain stimuli for survival

Ransomware is currently providing a pain stimulus to our country; the US has an opportunity to take action to avoid larger impacts. If the US responds poorly to that stimulus, the outcome will be fatal.

Cybersecurity

Ransomware Get-well plan

The US Government should pursue five policies through legislation, investment, and action, to drive the right incentives for asset-owners to improve security.

Dances With Wolves Part 2: Bonus Issues

There are more than just three critical issues with Clegg's analysis of Facebook that need to be considered.

Cybersecurity

Regulation and Ransomware: Fix the *Right* Problem

Any ransomware solutions dictated to industry that fail to primarily address the business side will be ineffective at best, and are most likely to be costly, ineffective, and burn political capital with industry and voters.

Governance

Dances with Wolves: A Response to Nick Clegg's 'It Takes Two to Tango'

There are three critical issues with Clegg's analysis of Facebook that need to be considered.

Governance

Form Letter to Respond to Belarusian Crimes / Hijacking of Flight 4978

Tell your congressmember that the US should require the release of Roman Protasevitch and Sofia Sapega.

Governance

Taxes, Wealth, and Patriotism

The wealthiest Americans are facing lower taxes than their lower-income fellow citizens. The beliefs underpinning the policies causing this imbalance are un-American, foolhardy, and defeatist.