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
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.