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Episode 271: Is social media a disease, and how do we treat it?

By Stewart Baker on July 8, 2019 Posted in AI, China, International

This week I interview Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit and the UT Knoxville law school, about his new book, The Social Media Upheaval. In a crisp 64 pages, Glenn analogizes social media to a primeval city, where new proximity produces periodic outbreaks of diseases that more isolated people never experienced; traces social media’s toxicity to the… Continue Reading

Episode 265: Cheapfakes and the end of blackmail

By Stewart Baker on May 28, 2019 Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International

Paul Rosenzweig leads off with This Week in China Tech Fear – an enduring and fecund feature in Washington these days. We cover the Trump Administration’s plan to blacklist up to five Chinese surveillance companies, including Hikvision, for contributing to Uighur human rights violations in the West of China, DHS’s rather bland warning that… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Troels Oerting

By Stewart Baker on December 3, 2014 Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Our guest for the week is Troels Oerting, the head of EC3, Europe’s new cybercrime coordination center. He talks about EC3’s role in the recent take down of over 400 darknet sites, arrests of travelers using fake credit cards and of users of the Blackshades Remote Access Tool. He repeats his view that there are… Continue Reading