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ROUNDTABLE: Experts react to President Biden’s exec order in the aftermath of Colonial Pipeline hack

The Last Watchdog

Of course, we live in a comparatively free part of the world. Colonial pipeline is a really good case study for the whole critical infrastructure industry. Better and more immediate sharing of intel on attacks – especially those impacting national security — has got to happen if the U.S.

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Q&A: The troubling implications of normalizing encryption backdoors — for government use

The Last Watchdog

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? We know how Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jung-un would answer: “Of course!”. Related: Nation-state hacks suggest cyber war is underway.