Errata Security

Someone on Twitter asked for a blogpost on how I'd fix the CFAA, the anti-hacking law. So here is my proposal. The major problem with ...

A typical hacker, according to @Viss President Obama has upped his war on hackers by declaring a " state of emergency ". This ...

In order to measure the danger of the bash shellshock vulnerability, I scanned the Internet for it. Many are debating whether this violates ...

Hacker Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, who was unjustly persecuted by the US government and recently freed after a year in jail when th...

The court has overturned the Weev conviction, but on the question of venue not the vague language of the CFAA. This is actually just as impo...

Picture of the loft, from Space Rogue. This is the tradition. In the prosecutors' response to the Weev appeal, they make the snark...

Some observations from today’s appeal hearing of Weev  (the notorious case of someone convicted of accessing public info). What was it? ...

Yet again we have an example how the judicial system treats hacking like witchcraft. Lawyers submitting briefs to the court are required to ...

Many of us believe that the conviction of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer proves that the system is corrupt, that the law can be arbitra...

In what's become a disturbing refrain of late, the crazy conspiracy theories of Internet activists have turned out to be right. The case...

Weev's lawyers have filed their appeal . It's interesting, readable even for non-lawyers. Part of the appeal is based on the obvio...

Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18 USC 1030(a) (better known as the “ Computer Fraud & ...