The law does not lead, it follows. Our system is very reactive in nature. It tends to change, without my surprise, like people generally do as a direct result to negative events or influences. Smokers quit following the heart attack and our legal system create laws based upon past events. GPS technology has been around… Read More
Juris Doctor 144 of 161: The End is Near
The final push has arrived. The last remaining months before graduation. December will be here soon enough, but not soon enough for this student of law. I’m at the point where every class and every chapter takes a huge effort to drag myself through it. It really has little to do with law and everything… Read More
Weekly Digest for August 25th
mdpeters posted 2 items. User:CalvertRushplh User:CalvertRushplh mdpeters posted 8 items. User:RichardWashingtonimi User:DrewBoonevxy User:EatonChapmanteh User:FrancisMayszrs User:FrancisMayszrs User:EatonChapmanteh User:DrewBoonevxy User:RichardWashingtonimi mdpeters posted 3 items. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The PCI Challenge
It is frequently in the news. Reports have been written. Punitive and compensatory damages have been awarded. Companies around the globe have been challenged to find the resources required to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The prime PCI DSS objective is to protect cardholder data. The prime objective of… Read More
Weekly Digest for August 18th
mdpeters posted User:LandryGardnerjtz. mdpeters posted 2 items. User:Ballann69 User:Teetemp mdpeters posted User:Bloodfire71.
Weekly Digest for August 11th
mdpeters posted . mdpeters posted User:Paige84.
Insecurity
If you think that absolute security exists you would be absolutely incorrect. Speaking as a security practitioner who has been in the business for as long as there has been a security business, I’ll tell you with a straight face that no technology system exists that is completely secure or one hundred percent impenetrable. The… Read More
Reality Check
“A human loses contact with reality if he or she is not surrounded by validated information.” – Michael D. Peters
Juris Doctor 135-143 of 161: The Geek Shall Inherit the Universe
Cyber-espionage and Cyber-warfare poses the greatest threat to our society today. No longer are massive militarized forces with the most advanced weaponry the force to fear. The forces to be feared now are computer geeks. A single person or just a few cyber-savvy individuals working together as a team now possess the power to bring… Read More
Dropbox? More Like Dropball!
There has been a putative class action complaint filed on June 22, 2011, in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of California alleging that the popular cloud-based storage provider Dropbox, Inc. failed to secure its users’ private data or to notify the vast majority of them about a recent data breach. According… Read More