Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/1/23
Fixing the CFAA and cyber staff shortages, ICE pre-crimes with LexisNexis data, Sandworm chief's master thesis, Grocery store spying, Fooling AI tools, Cyber insurance sizing, Balkan cyber crisis
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Schrödinger’s Hacking Law And Cyber Burnout: Capacity Building in U.S. Cybersecurity
In the Council of Foreign Relations Blog, Tarah Wheeler argues that cybersecurity will continue to be a problem until the chronic shortage of qualified professionals is remedied and the problems in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it arguably illegal to learn to be a computer security expert, are fixed.
If policymakers had reacted to watching Jaws [instead of watching Matthew Broderick’s War Games] by banning surfing and leaving enforcement up to prosecutors who’d never learned to swim, you’d have the marine equivalent to the Computer Frau…
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