Twelve Years On →

October 14, 2016 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Blatant Stupidity, Communications Governance, Cybersecurity, Internetwork Security, Information Security

Hacker News writer Mohit Kumar, regales us with the unfortunate and unsurprising news: A Twelve Year Old SSH Flaw comes back to bite the nascent and deeply flawed IoT industry. Read it and weep my friends, at the show that never ends...

Burners, The Tightening

June 02, 2016 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Communications, Communications Governance, Cryptography, Demise of Privacy, Information Security, Mobile Networks, Mobile Security, Signals

Well wrought thought piece on the use, and misuse, of prepaid cellular telephony hardware, the so-call Burner, and the effort to enforce regulations thereto. Entitled Burner Phones: Will Tightening Restrictions on Prepaid Cell Phones Solve Anything? Certainly today's Must Read post...

EFF Analyzes Secure Messaging

April 25, 2016 by Marc Handelman in Communications, Communications Governance, Cryptography, EFF, Information Security

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an interesting look at secure messaging, as it exists today, including a super-handy scorecard. Yay!

Mobile Telephony, First Cut Is The Deepest

August 18, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Communications, Communications Governance, Common Sense, Government, Information Security

Apparently, the United States Supreme Court has been asked (via Petition) to weigh-in on the Department of Homeland Security's Standard Operating Procedure 303, originally developed by the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. My take on it - Not Going To Happen.

Use of Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty"

July 21, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Communications, Communications Governance, Critical Thinking, Cryptography, Encryption, Intelligence, Information Security, Secrets

Presented for your consideration - a 1997 paper entitled The Use of Encrypted, Coded and Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty" Protected by the United States Constitution, published by the University of Virginia Journal of Law and Technology]*.

John Fraser III the author of this superlative screed (now an attorney in Washington, DC) presents his fascinating argument on encryption, and the 'ancient right' to utilize cryptographic artifacts in the course of communications, protected, of course, by our nations' Constitution. Today's Must Read.

FCC Denies Delay Requests, Net Neutrality Rules On The March →

May 11, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Government, Governance, Internet Governance, Communications Governance

via Grant Gross, writing at PC World, comes news of the United States Federal Communications Commission denial of submitted requests from a group of Cable and Telephony providers (the ususal suspects) to slow the implementation of the Commission's Net Neutrality rules. This, my fiends, is one commish we can all get behind (except, of course, the Cable, Telephony and their lobbyists).