In a big win for privacy, the US Supreme court ruled that authorities must have a warrant to access a person's location information from their cell phone. The ruling was 5-4, so it definitely had people against it, but I do feel this is good to protect citizens from abuse by law enforcement and others. People may think this could make finding terrorists take longer, but I disagree, as if the authorities have proof or probable cause, they can surely get a warrant withing a couple of hours.
This is a big deal. I saw this article and instantly knew this was the sort of thing that we are learning about, that this hack is so quintessential to why cyber security is a growing issue. One of the US Navy's many contractors had confidential data stolen off of their network, revealing project details and other confidential data. According to the article, this was most likely due to an unsecured network or workstation, or a combination of the two. This highlights a specific problem with using contractors for confidential projects, you normally dont have control over their networks, etc, as they are independent of yours. The only way I could see this being resolved is by requiring these contractors to use government machines, but this could pose an issue of selling government equipment, hostile agents having direct access to the machines, etc. https://gizmodo.com/china-hacked-a-navy-contractor-and-stole-600gb-of-data-1826689038
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