...and why not? A good cyberattack gives all the satisfaction of a missile attack but with no risk of it spreading to conventional weapons. Yet.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/tech/iran-sanctions-us-banks-cyber-hack-invs/index.html

US banks prepare for Iranian cyberattacks as retaliation for sanctions

New York (CNN)As the United States reinstated economic sanctions on Iran on Monday, American banks were gearing up for retaliatory Iranian cyberattacks.

Bank executives believe Iranian hackers could attempt to disrupt financial services, perhaps as they did between 2011 and 2013 – with denial-of-service attacks that interrupted bank websites and other internet financial services.

… "Iran, while more limited (than some other countries) in the sophistication of their cyber capabilities, (has) demonstrated a greater willingness to conduct destructive cyberattacks that are well beyond the norms of state behavior in peacetime," Lt. Col. Audricia Harris told CNN in an email.

Because we’d be upset if the CIA or NSA did it?

National biometric database could be on the way (and in private hands)

Greg Nichols reports:

When a national fingerprinting company joins forces with a startup that authenticates identity using AI-based facial recognition and behavioral prediction in natural settings, the future of human identification tech starts to look an awful lot like sci fi. That’s the the new reality as SureID, a biometrics and fingerprinting firm, partners with Robbie.AI, a Boston-based startup, on R&D that could result in the United States’ first nationwide biometrics gathering system.

Read more on ZDNet.

Well, maybe it could’a…

NH judge orders Amazon to hand over Echo recordings in double murder case

Mark Osborne reports:

Authorities in New Hampshire are hopeful a smart speaker will be smart enough to convict a double murderer.

Amazon was ordered by a judge on Friday to hand over recordings taken by an Echo device in the Farmington, New Hampshire, home where Christine Sullivan lived with her boyfriend. Sullivan was found murdered in the backyard of the home on Jan. 29, 2017, along with Jenna Pellegrini, who was staying at the home.

The bodies were left in the backyard, under a tarp, and a knife was buried nearby, police said.

Read more on ABC.

[From the article:

It's unclear whether there is any audio evidence on the device, but the court found probable cause that the speaker could have recorded "evidence of crimes committed against Ms. Sullivan, including the attack and possible removal of the body from the kitchen."

An Amazon spokesperson told The Associated Press it would not release the recordings "without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us."