Educating CEOs…
Some ransomware gangs are going after top execs to pressure companies into paying
Ransomware gangs are prioritizing stealing data from workstations used by executives in the hopes of finding and using valuable information to use in the extortion process.
They may have it right.
EFF’s Response to Social Media Companies’ Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts
Corynne McSherry of EFF writes:
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who endured many hours of lockdown and reconvened to fulfill their constitutional duties.
The decisions by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others to suspend and/or block President Trump’s communications via their platforms is a simple exercise of their rights, under the First Amendment and Section 230, to curate their sites. We support those rights. Nevertheless, we are always concerned when platforms take on the role of censors, which is why we continue to call on them to apply a human rights framework to those decisions. We also note that those same platforms have chosen, for years, to privilege some speakers—particularly governmental officials—over others, not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well. A platform should not apply one set of rules to most of its users, and then apply a more permissive set of rules to politicians and world leaders who are already immensely powerful.
Read more on EFF.
(Related) There is a lot happening in the Social Media world, so I’m going to point to a number of articles...
Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship: The Decision To Ban Trump From Twitter
https://www.axios.com/reddit-bans-rdonaldtrump-subreddit-ff1da2de-37ab-49cf-afbd-2012f806959e.html
Reddit bans subreddit group "r/DonaldTrump"
Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purge
Twitter permanently bans Trump
https://www.axios.com/capitol-mob-parler-google-ban-826d808d-3e06-4468-a7c6-6157557818b3.html
Google suspends Parler from app store after deadly Capitol violence
Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban
Simple.
UK Mass Hacking Ruled Illegal
After five years of legal wrangling, the UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single 'general warrant'.
… The decision hinged on common law indicating that the government can't search private premises - including computers and phones - without lawful authority; and that a warrant must target an identified individual or individuals. Because general warrants aren't targeted, the court found, they lack that lawful authority.
Not a lawyer joke…
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-01-09
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