While it’s true that cybersecurity can be cover for bad proposals, it is true that foreign organized criminal and state-backed attacks are hitting American government and business interests online every day. They’re even stealing large sums of money on a regular basis. This is why we need to address the issue in a serious way…. Read more »
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McAuliffe Feels Heat Over Green Tech Resignation
FREDERICKSBURG – In a quiet resignation that became public only Friday, GreenTech Automotive founder Terry McAuliffe stepped down as chairman more than four months ago. Politico reported that McAuliffe’s resignation was accepted by president/CEO Charles Wang in a letter dated Dec. 1. But the nascent electric-car company and McAuliffe, who is in the midst of his second bid for Virginia governor,… Read more »
Tech at Night: Cybersecurity matters thanks to China, even if the Anonymous gang is a bunch of idiots.
I have a charity event I’m participating in tomorrow (I’m the one doing The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II), and I’d like to have slept for it, so this may be briefer than usual. Looks like a push for real patent reform is brewing. After the lawyer- but not innovation-friendly America Invents Act was… Read more »
Tech at Night: Odds and ends on security and regulation
Here we go again. The Weekend-at-Bernies-ificatoin of Aaron Swartz continues. He made an example of himself to become an anti-copyright martyr, and now we’re supposed to degrade property rights online to give him his way anyway. Pass. Computer Fraud and Abuse is a problem, but foreign threats are an issue, too. That’s why we also… Read more »