An interesting exercise for my Ethical Hacking
students. Would there be value in a marketplace that was safe for
both sides? Could we structure such a marketplace?
Sean Sposito reports on companies buying, or
arranging to buy through an intermediary, stolen data on the dark
web. They do it to verify whether the data are real or whether
they’ve had a leak, and they generally don’t spend much – only
buying a small sample of data, but the practice is controversial.
Read more on Express
News.
No one has asked me! (No answers here either.)
Judges
struggle with cyber crime punishment
Judges are struggling to determine the appropriate
punishments for cyber crimes even as U.S. law enforcement works to
bring more of the Internet’s bad actors to justice.
Cyber crime is such a recent phenomenon that there
are few guideposts for judges to use, experts say.
“Cybercrimes on the grand scheme are so new,
they’re kind of playing it by each individual case,” said Dr.
Catherine Marcum, a criminal justice professor who has studied
cybercrime sentencing. “A lot of the [cybercrime] legislation has
been in the last 10 or 15 years and they’re trying to figure out
how to apply it and how to use it.”
… One of the factors the guidelines tell
judges to take into account is the so-called “loss,” or the
financial harm caused by a cyber crime. But the guidelines define
“loss” far more broadly for CFAA convictions than they do for
other crimes.
Loss can include any reasonable cost to the victim
— including the cost of restoring a system or conducting a damage
assessment — whether or not that loss was foreseeable.
I may even read this.
Rhetoric
and Law
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 9, 2016
Rhetoric
and Law – The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most
contentious legal reformer by Lincoln Caplan – January-February
2016, Harvard Magazine
“…His ideas about judges and judging command
attention because of his authority as a thinker and a doer. His
approach to law, some legal scholars contend, makes the field worthy
of a Nobel Prize—which he would win, many say, by acclamation. At
77, he has been the most influential American legal scholar during
his almost half-century in the academy, for all but one year at the
University of Chicago Law School: in 2000, Fred Shapiro, a librarian
at Yale Law School, calculated that Posner was the most cited legal
scholar “of all time” by a wide margin (Holmes was third). He is
also in his thirty-fifth year as a highly respected member of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which encompasses
Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. He has been among the country’s
most influential judges in shaping other court decisions, measured by
the number of times other judges have cited his judicial opinions….”
Cute slides, but I'd rather read an article.
(What's with the blank slides?)
Fin (Legal)
Tech – Law’s Future from Finance’s Past
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 9, 2016
Fin
(Legal) Tech – Law’s Future from Finance’s Past – Professors
Daniel Martin Katz & Michael J. Bommarito II – “In
today’s analogy du jour – we explore a variety of innovations in
the financial technology space (i.e. fintech) and how they map to the
current and future legal technology space.”
Back in “ye olde days,” every movie cowboy
could call his horse with a whistle. I thought that would be a very
cool feature for self-driving cars, but I guess it is still a ways
off. Can't wait for them to get these bugs worked out.
Tesla
Software Update Lets You 'Summon' Your Model S
… It's also important to know that the Summon
mode isn't perfect; it might not detect certain objects in your
garage, for example, which could lead to an unpleasant scratching of
your car's paint job (or worse) if you aren't paying attention.
Tesla also suggests that its cars' owners only use the mode on flat
driveways.
Though Summon mode can also open and shut your
garage door once your car is safely in or out—if your garage door
supports HomeLink—Tesla urges owners to not treat the feature as a
hit-the-button, walk-inside kind of a convenience.
"You must stay in proximity to your vehicle
and continually monitor and maintain control of it when using this
feature. You should only use this feature on private property,"
reads Tesla's notes.
Dilbert on juries & justice.
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