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If you have kids of a certain age, you’re probably familiar with the video game platform Roblox. And if you’re paying attention, you probably also know that Roblox has some flaws. Serious flaws. Just last week, Los Angeles County filed suit against the company. Part of the complaint points out that-inexplicably-Roblox does not require any kind of adult verification to create an account, but instead only asks users to check a box that says their parent/guardian has authorized

By now, most of the country was either directly affected by or has seen the news that one of the nation’s largest wireless carries suffered a widespread and lengthy outage during the past week. This isn’t a tragedy by itself. It happens. But while the first misstep is a routine misfortune in the normal course of business-an indication that something needs to be tightened or upgraded somewhere along the lines of the process-the next several are all self-created errors. Last ni

...CNN runs a headline story comprehensive expose on exactly the scam I was talking about in my previous post. The story is a good read-it lays out the scam, how the fraud actors direct their victims to the specific crypto ATMs, how the machine operators defend their claim to the deposited money in courts, and how they use aggressive lobbying efforts to influence proposed regulatory legislation. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/10/us/crypto-atm-scams-companies-profit-invs

A potential client reached out to me a few weeks ago, having been conned out of about $30,000. A case decided last month out of Norfolk...

A recent news story that got my attention is that law enforcement and intelligence agencies are circumventing the Fourth Amendment by...