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Tech at Night: SECURE IT comes to the House, Aereo gets sued for innovating,...
Great news! Tech at Night’s favorite Representative Marsha Blackburn, along with TaN’s own home representative Mary Bono Mack are bringing a version of Secure IT to the House. The bill has been...
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Tech at Night: Exposing ACTA, Arresting Anonymous, Crashing LightSquared
ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is Darrell Issa’s next project, as he’s not happy about the treaty. So, he’s put the treaty online for all to see. I still don’t know of any specific...
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Tech at Night: Let’s take the right approach to securing our Internet resources
Remember the SECURE IT bill, backed in the House by Marsha Blackburn and Mary Bono Mack, and in the Senate by John McCain and the gang? One of the key reasons I like the idea is that it enhances our...
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Tech at Night: Republicans fight for transparency, FCC taking bipartisan...
Previously on Tech at Night I linked to a story that suggested there was a split between Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on FCC transparency. It turns out the story I relied on, had it wrong....
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Tech at Night: FTC makes a move, FCC still trouble, NAM backs SECURE IT
So we already had the coming FCC battle over Verizon’s attempts to acquire the spectrum it needs, the Senate fight over ‘cybersecurity,’ and a possible Congressional fight over Internet sales...
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Tech at Night: House passes key FCC reform, House and Senate SECURE IT bills...
FCC reform advances in the House. Greg Walden’s FCC Process Reform Act is a needed bill, so I’m glad that it went from committee to the floor, and took minimal modification in passing. I like that it...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity action in the Senate, Soros squad on the move
In case you missed it, Friday’s Tech at night featured Q&A with Rep. Steve Scalise. Don’t miss is now. Team Soros, assemble! Remember when it was “wrong” for AT&T to get spectrum by buying...
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Tech at Night: Pirate Bay DDoSed by copyright defenders? Net Neutrality...
Earlier we covered Microsoft’s new Pirate Pay, which I said sounded like a DoS attack against copyright infringers. Others agree and say it may be illegal, which is true. Sure enough, Pirate Bay is...
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Tech at Night: Free Press wants worse Internet for us, Public Knowledge is...
Texas takes on Google as the state comes after the corporation on antitrust grounds. I’m not sure this is a good idea, any more than it was a good idea for the Clinton administration to go after...
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Tech at Night: The Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill is just that extreme
John McCain. Lisa Murkowski. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Saxby Chambliss. Richard Burr. Dan Coats. No, I’m not listing the centrist wing of the Senate Republicans. I’m listing some of the co-sponsors of...
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Tech at Night: A good old FCC roundup on Independence Day
It’s Independence Day, which was very nice for me since I kept on resting and feel just about healthy now. No Tech on Monday thanks to my cold that wiped me out since Sunday. Unfortunately Google...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity compromise rightfully stalling, Mike Enzi right...
Please read: A personal appeal to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. You mad, bro? With that business out of the way, back to Tech at Night. I for one am glad that Jon Kyl and Sheldon Whitehouse are...
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Tech at Night: Obama and the Senate take up the wrong Cybersecurity bill,...
Coordination stops the bad guys online. That’s why The Democrats are wrong in their push for a power grab, led by Barack Obama. We just need better information sharing. Pass CISPA or SECURE IT. Not...
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Tech at Night: More sales tax issues, the Lieberman-Collins bill is still wrong
It’s easy to see why there’s sudden, strong opposition to the Marketplace Fairness Act, as yet another Republican governor, Terry Branstad, backs the bill. I again state my opposition to the lousy...
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Tech at Night: Lieberman-Collins is dangerously wrong, Republican Governors...
Right now the top issues are both getting lots of attention in the Senate. One is the cybersecurity bill. It’s been difficult for me to find out much about what’s going on with it, and it turns out...
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Tech at Night: Reid’s bluff called on Lieberman-Collins, so bill falters....
Lieberman-Collins is in trouble! There is apparently some misinformation going around. I’ve seen people claiming that gun control is in the bill, when it’s just an amendment possibly to be added,...
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Tech at Night: FCC’s own snooping scandal? Also, Collins turns on Obama on...
Remember the Google Wi-Spy Street View scandal? A seemingly-harmless survey of the country turned into a massive snooping operation, and the FTC smacked them for over 20 million dollars. Well, not...
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