July 2014

I’ve long been an advocate for fewer restraints on how the private sector responds to hacking attacks.  If the government can’t stop and can’t punish such attacks, in my view the least it could do is not threaten the victims with felony prosecution for taking reasonable measures in self-defense.  I debated the topic with co-blogger

HIPAA is an arguably well-intentioned privacy law that seems to yield nothing but “unintended” consequences.  I put “unintended” in quotes because the consequences are often remarkably convenient, at least for those with power.  I’m not sure you can call something that convenient “unintended.”

The problem has gotten so bad that even National Public Radio and