Author: Tim Cushing

from the breaking-everything-it-touches dept The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now exists in name only. Not only did Trump’s band of Musk-led pillagers dismantle the infrastructure side of the agency by disbanding the CISA group investigating a massive China-based hack of US phone systems, but the administration terminated ongoing election security and disinformation-thwarting efforts by the agency roughly a month later, putting CISA in charge of… practically nothing. Its only mandate now is to investigate itself for any malfeasance, presumably so Trump can point at anything discovered as evidence of a “stolen” 2020 national election. Now that CISA is…

from the enhanced-view-still-an-unsettled-issue dept As tech advances, the law mutates. In some cases (Riley, Carpenter) we get more protections. In other cases, we get fewer protections. This case dates back to 2022. Christopher Poller was a suspect Waterbury, Connecticut police officers were seeking to arrest. While surveilling his residence, officers approached his parked car. Poller wasn’t in it at the time, but it was parked on the public street. Other officers approached Poller’s home to arrest him. No officer had a warrant to search Poller’s car, but since it was parked on the street, they didn’t need one to look…