#jeneasterly — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jeneasterly, aggregated by home.social.
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This week featured vastly less travel than last week, but it also afforded me the rare experience of hearing an executive-branch appointee burst into song. And at the end of it, I carved out some time to write a post for Patreon readers about how certain PR pitches come with either a request or a stipulation that I cover the subject for a particular outlet.
4/23/2024: T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road, PCMag
Of all of T-Mobile’s announcements Tuesday, the unlimited-data version of its new Away fixed-wireless plan was easily the most interesting.
4/23/2024: FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, PCMag
I wrote an update to the post I’d filed more than a year earlier when the Federal Trade Commission had started this rule-making process, explaining the particulars of the new FTC rule and noting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s plans to sue to overturn this ban.
4/25/2024: Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously, PCMag
I spent Wednesday at a conference in Washington hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, then wrote this recap Thursday that led off with Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly singing a bit from an upcoming remake of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just A Bill.”
4/27/2024: Ep 99 SmartTechCheck Podcast – TikTok, smartphones and children, FCC broadband labels mandate, Mark Vena
I joined my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss the new law requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell that social platform, the FCC’s broadband-labels regulation, how harmful smartphones might be to kids, and other tech topics.
Updated 5/5/2024 to add a link to the Patreon post.
#cybersecurity #fixedWireless #FTCNonCompeteBan #informationSecurity #infosec #JenEasterly #MarkVena #nonCompeteClauses #ransomware #SchoolhouseRock #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #TMobileHomeInternet
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In case you missed it, in order to "combat online threats", #JenEasterly on Thursday as the Director of #HomelandSecurity's #CyberSecurity and #Infrastructure Security (#CISA) said at a #BlackHat #Security Conference that #CrowdStrike, #Amazon Web Services, #Google, #Microsoft, #PaloAlto Networks, #FireEye, #ATnT, #Verizon and #Lumen have all agreed to work on a "new initiative".
> Enlists help of #nazis to fight nazis. Terrorists to fight #terrorists.
BigTech is the virus