Patrick Gray

Risky Biz is back for its 19th year!

In this week's show we talk about why Trump will be a cyber hawk, the CSRB being gutted, compromised Chrome extensions, China's US Treasury hack, the latest Fortinet and Ivanti comedy bugs and more

Audio: https://risky.biz/RB776/

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJr2K9mCW-s

Risky Business #776 -- Trump will flex America's cyber muscles - Risky Business

Risky Business #776 -- Trump will flex America's cyber muscles

Jan 22 at 4:36amWeb
Show threadGabriel NJan 22
@riskybusiness welcome back to my podcast feed, as usual, nothing big happened while you were away
Show threadSeanie Byrne 🦡Jan 22

@riskybusiness congratulations! 🍾

Thats a hell of a business achievement, and to be consistently growing for that period is incredible too… however, to keep shareholders happy we’re going to have announce an AI product or something to do with crypto currency, or take on someone from Trumps inner circle to your board? Maybe Ross Ulbrict does the weekly forecast? Snake oilers presented by Rudy?

Show threadlippardâś…Jan 22
@riskybusiness At 20:22 "but what he [Trump] can do is sign an EO giving them 75 days" (extend the TikTok ban). Except that (a) an EO cannot nullify a law (dispensing with laws was removed from English common law in 1689), (b) the law does provide for an ability to extend the time period before the ban, but apparently not before it goes into effect, and (c) it requires not an EO but the president to certify to Congress that the company has taken steps towards divestment, which it hasn't. It's a lawless EO. [not a lawyer but have read lawyer comments on this] Also, pretty sure Google and Apple DID remove TikTok from the app stores but Oracle and Akamai are the service providers that put themselves at legal risk by violating the law in response to a president-elect's social media post.
Show threadlippardâś…Jan 22
@riskybusiness The Apple and Google app stores continue to block TikTok. They are in compliance with the law; Oracle and Akamai are not.
Show threadPatrick GrayJan 22
@lippard others have told me he can write an EO instructing the DoJ to ignore enforcement. Whether that’s legal or not is up to the courts and will take a while to figure out I guess
Show threadlippardâś…Jan 22
@riskybusiness he can of course do it and has done so, but he cannot as executive unilaterally give dispensation from a law in effect, courts are likely to say no dice, unless we give up on rule of law here.
Show threadlippardâś…Jan 22
@riskybusiness Not clear to me who has standing or might bring a case. At least one GOP Sen has complained, Tom Cotton.
Show threadPatrick GrayJan 23

@lippard let's see what happens!

I seem to remember Obama-era AG instructing DoJ not to pursue marijuana cases tho...

Show threadlippardâś…Jan 23
@riskybusiness That was regarding a conflict between federal and state law and not a dispensation for a single violator.