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Ramifications of new EU data law

The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a far-reaching law and probably the best attempt so far to address the societal changes resulting from the explosion of data-gathering abilities made technically possible by the internet and mobile devices.


More email link blues

Regular readers of this column already know that my advice is to never ever click on links in emails, and here comes just one more example why.

Kids hack US voting machines with ease

In a few short days citizens of the United States go to the polls to vote in national elections, so this event provides a convenient segue for me to write this column on the subject of DEF CON 26.

Solid state drives: They do fail!

Many new laptop computers are now being sold with Solid State Drives (SSD) in place of the traditional mechanical drives with motor and spinning disks.