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Author: Skip Slates is a lawyer in Huntington Beach, Calif.

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Metrolink Accident: California Bans Text Messaging by Train Operators
The California Public Utility Commission passed an emergency order banning text messaging by anyone at the controls of a moving train following last week’s Metrolink accident. Federal investigators have confirmed that the engineer of the…
Los Angeles Metrolink Engineer May Have Been Texting
News reports indicate that the train engineer in the Los Angeles Metrolink accident may have been texting on his cellphone in the moments before the train crash. A teenage railfan reportly told a CBS2 news…
Massive ID Theft Linked to Wireless Networks and War Driving
On Tuesday, federal officials cracked the largest identity theft ring in history. The group of 11 people was charged with stealing more than 41 millions credit and debit card numbers fom major retailers such as…
Taking Hacking to Heart
According to a blog post on The Reeves Law Group Blog, we may now have to worry about hackers cracking pacemakers. Apparently, certain Medtronic pacemakers have wireless radios which allow doctors to easily monitor the…
Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor
December 16, 1947 is not a date in history that most of us celebrate, but perhaps we should. On that date, three Bell Laboratories physicists invented the transistor. The was an ugly affair made out…
Under House Bill the Feds May Take Your Computer
A new bill in Congress would drastically increase the civil and criminal penalties for copyright violations. H.R. 4279 would also create a new intellectual property division within the Justice Department. The proposed law would allow the Justice…
New NCIS Computer System and the NCIS Effect
The National Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) unveiled a new crime-fighting computer system last week, according the Btown Monitoring Post blog. The Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) will allow state and local agencies in the Washington D.C.…
State Officials’ Home Computers Subject to Discovery?
A lawsuit in Tennesee alleges that the state is failing to provide adequate health care to poor children. A lawsuit filed by a Tennessee non-profit group claims that the state wrongly allowed records and computer…
Wireless Keyboards a Security Threat?
ZDNet reports that researchers have cracked the protocol used to secure some of Microsoft’s wireless keyboards. This opens up the possibility of logging all keystrokes typed on the keyboard, or even controlling the compromised computer…