Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Organized crime moves into scam/fraud arena around the world - The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach?


AARP:  Organized crime moves into scam/fraud arena around the world


 The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach? – Cybersecurity scholar Scott J. Shackelforddiscusses how the FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go.


Dorfman, Doron, Disability as Metaphor in American Law (April 26, 2022). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN

“In recent decades, the term disability has become associated with a legally protected minority group of people living with impairments and the social oppression that stems from them. Yet in the legal realm the term disability has also been used as a metaphor that carries over meaning beyond the scope defined in disability law. This article identifies such use of disability as metaphor in two legal contexts. The first is the linguistic use of disability as metaphor for disadvantage, inability and impediment generally.








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