Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Law Enforcement Seeks Legislation Requiring Providers to Keep Logs for 18 Months

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Law enforcement representatives plan to endorse proposed legislation that will force communication providers—Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecom and cable companies—to retain their customers’ logs for 18 months. The mandatory data retention bill is in hearing today before the U.S. House of Representatives. …

Department of Justice: Should the Government Compel People to Decrypt their Data?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In the digital era, access to files and sensitive data—especially that stored in the cloud—means that there’s always eyeballs on our information. As a result, a multitude of different storage techniques to protect our privacy from prying eyes, foreign and domestic, have …

Turkey Hit by Further Anonymous Hacks and Data Leaks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Turkey is a favorite target for the Anonymous hactivist collective due to the anti-censorship skein running through their tapestry of political activism. The country has been caught up in numerous problems involving suppression of dissent, cutting off the Internet to its citizens …

Cybersecurity Scholar Warns How Private E-mail in the Cloud Isn’t So Private After All

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

If you watch way too much Law & Order, CSI:, and other crime shows on TV like I do you’ve already encountered numerous story lines that hinge on investigators getting their hands on a person’s private e-mail or online browser history (not …

Fully Functional Bitcoin Wallet Comes to Android

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

We’ve been following the saga of this peer-to-peer cryptocurrency for a while now. Bitcoins have found themselves in the media recently, and had their share of ups-and-downs, adoption as a currency has been low in real world marketplaces. That said, the key …

USA PATRIOT Act May Put Microsoft Cloud in the Doghouse with the European Union

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Patriot Act has had far-reaching implications for United States citizens, but now it threatens to reach into other countries who also do business with the U.S., Microsoft warned the E.U. recently. With the expansion of the cloud and the possibility that …

Authorities Continue to Stalk Anonymous with 32 Raids in Italy Leading to Arrests

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

What started with police action in Spain last month is continuing with raids and arrests in Italy this week. The arrests in Spain were part of an operation targeting individuals suspected as connected to the attacks that took down the Playstation Network …

Google+ Found Cavorting with NFC in Official Android App

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It looks like Google is pressing forward in their adoption of NFC technology by making sure that it’s also Google+ enabled. Shortly after the announcement and unveiling of their new social networking service, an official Android app became available on the App …

California Judge Gives Go-Ahead for Google Class-Action Involving WiFi Snooping

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

United States wiretapping laws are notoriously used in contexts way beyond any possible intent due to the zealotry of law enforcement and the inexorable march of technology. When much of the wiretapping legislation had been put into law, the concept of a …

Facebook Blocks Chrome Extension for Exporting Friends to Google+

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what is going to certainly be the next level in the fight between Facebook and Google over data portability and reciprocity, a Facebook has blocked the functioning of a Chrome browser extension that became abruptly popular after the launch of Google+. …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Law Enforcement Seeks Legislation Requiring Providers to Keep Logs for 18 Months

Department of Justice: Should the Government Compel People to Decrypt their Data?

Turkey Hit by Further Anonymous Hacks and Data Leaks

Fully Functional Bitcoin Wallet Comes to Android

Authorities Continue to Stalk Anonymous with 32 Raids in Italy Leading to Arrests

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