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Tech Law And Policy Year In Review
This article is from our AZ Tech Law & Policy Newsletter - covering technology law and policy news that directly impacts Arizonans.
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November 2023 SWCSF Meeting
* November 6, 2023 * Gateway Community College Schedule * 6:00 - 6:30pm: Networking and Food * 6:30 - 7:00pm: Meeting Start and Announcements * 7:00 - 8:00pm: What the FISA?! by Christina Eichelkraut * 8:05 - 8:45pm: Breakdown in Communication by Elio Grieco * 8:45 - 9:
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Five Healthy Alternatives To Elon Musk
If you’re the kind of person who would have backed Nicola Tesla over Thomas Edison, or someone who remains puzzled as to why we’re not all using Linux, this list is for you.
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August 2023 SWCSF Meeting
* August 7, 2023 * Gateway Community College Schedule * 6:00 - 6:30pm: Networking and Food * 6:30 - 6:40pm: Meeting Start and Announcements * 6:40 - 7:00pm: Cyber Threat Updates by Erik Graham * 7:10 - 8:00pm: Pegasus & the Phantom Menace It Left Behind by Christina
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July 2023 SWCSF Meeting
Presentation Topic: You Can Be Correct Sir
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June 2023 SWCSF ISSA Joint Meeting
* June 1, 2023 * Gateway Community College * Register June 1st SWCSF & ISSA Joint Meeting On Thursday, June 1st, the SouthWest CyberSecurity Forum will hold a joint meeting with the Information Systems Security Association International Phoenix Chapter (ISSA Phoenix). Lunch will be served before the meeting at 12:30 p.m.
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Opening The Door For Dictators
How our willingness to give up privacy paves the way for self-suppression
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The Problem With Passwords
We hear a lot about passwords these days. What we don’t get is an explanation of what passwords actually are and the underpinnings of how they work.
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An Abundance Of Scarcity
How adding scarcity to digital and other post-scarcity environments creates problems and suffering.
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Relinquishing Our Humanity
The inadvertent consequence of well-intentioned technology
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Child Safety We Can Earn It But At What Cost
How the EARN IT act weakens encryption protections under the pretense of child safety
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On Teaching Technology Lessons Learned
One of the benefits of 2020 was it gave us the opportunity to investigate how we do things in technology education (admittedly whether we wanted to or not). Social distancing requirements forced technology teachers to try new approaches and some definitely worked better than others.
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Untangling The Web The Next Internet
Properties of the Next Internet The internet is the most powerful communication system ever invented by humanity. Unfortunately, it was never completed. The missing parts have allowed the internet to become diseased with constant security threats and privacy invasions, with no way to stop or even slow the progression of
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De Platform The Internet
While the internet is inarguably the greatest invention in human telecommunication to date, its early idealism and utopian promise has given way to a profit-driven, algorithmically manipulated echo chamber that is starting to cause harm in the real world. Can we restore the internet’s promise?
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The Way Forward
Examine the societal challenges that stem from technology’s ever-pervasive role in our lives and how to confront those challenges in a way that allows technology and humanity to reach its full potential.
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The Cyber Pandemic
Examine the societal challenges that stem from technology’s ever-pervasive role in our lives and how to confront those challenges in a way that allows technology and humanity to reach its full potential.