Lawful Access

June 2021

June 2021

WWDC21: Death. Taxes. Privacy. Tech. Law. And Economics.

Making a Twitter thread from earlier in the week a little easier to digest. There are some interesting new privacy features from Apple at their World Wide Developers Conference this week: Mail Privacy Private Relay Hide My Email On-device Siri App Privacy Report I’ve seen lots written on 1-3, less on the latter, plus the potential hidden amongst the announcements. First up, the solutions here aren’t new tech: Voice Control has been in iPhone for alarms, music, etc for… 7(?

December 2020

December 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #131
Vol. 3, Iss. 51

SUNBURST attack on U.S. government is both huge, and nothing new. Google suffers multiple outages. Automated attacks on online banking.


Vol. 3, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #130
Vol. 3, Iss. 50

FireEye breached by sophisticated actor; $1TN reportedly lost to cybercrime in 2020; Zodiac killer cipher cracker after 51 years.

July 2020

July 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 27
Robins Newsletter #107
Vol. 3, Iss. 27

Encrochat and evolving law enforcement tactics prove there is a different want to encryption backdoors. Explosion at Natanz doesn't mean 'Stuxnet 2.' And, don't host your website on Internet Archive.