The Beginning of the End

But for many Democrats, it was politically convenient to focus the blame for their heavy losses in rural and southern districts on gun-control legislation enacted not long before the election. The gun lobby's claims to influence were enhanced when it helped George W. Bush move heavily rural states his way six years later. In , by contrast, the battleground districts where Democrats defeated Republicans were largely in suburbs where most voters are tired of politicians who capitulate to gun extremists.

Democrats campaigned enthusiastically for sane regulation, and it helped them win.

E.J. Dionne: The beginning of the end of the gun lobby’s power

Voters who told exit pollsters that they cast ballots on the basis of gun policy voted for Democrats overwhelmingly, 70 percent to 29 percent. The exit poll conducted by Edison Research and reported by CNN offered other evidence of which side was most energized by the issue. For example, among voters in households without guns, Democrats in House races prevailed by 72 percent to 26 percent.

Those in households with guns voted Republican, but by a narrower margin, 61 percent to 36 percent. There is much credit to go around for shifting the political terrain on guns. The activist students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School certainly deserve their share, as do established gun-control groups that stepped up their own engagement while also backing the Florida organizers and helping to link them to other young people around the country. The elections should be as empowering for those who want to end our nation's shameful immobility in confronting mass shootings as the upheaval was for the gun lobby.

There is much more work to do, but those who undertake it can know that they now have the wind at their backs. Dionne is on Twitter: Legal Notices Obituaries Jobs. Monday, December 17, As NRA prepares to gather for its th annual meeting in Dallas, the political landscape has changed considerably in the past year.

And a new generation seems to have the upper hand in pushing for gun-control after several deadly mass shootings. Dionne The Washington Post.

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But biometrics may not be infallible. Forcepoint's global CTO, Nico Fischbach, believes that, "Hackers will steal the public's faces in [because] facial recognition has serious vulnerabilities.

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Expect some fairly large penalties and fines in to show up in national and international news headlines from GDPR; and while US regulation around privacy has lagged behind historically, high-profile incidents and the resulting public interest has brought the stigma of data breaches to the very costly forefront. In turn, anticipate increased focus on what could have been done to prevent breaches, scrutiny on the effectiveness of data protection and security, and a higher bar for compliance with an ever-evolving number of requirements.

As the outright and pervasive costs of non-compliance and breaches continue to grow, many organizations will need to invest in their security and data privacy practices, especially proactively in solution design. But the push to privacy and data protection may come at a price for innovation according to Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack , "Countries that continue to push data protection and privacy will lag behind countries with less structure and requirement.

As countries continue to press forward with making privacy a high value they may not realize that they are giving up ground in innovation. Innovation thrives in countries that support it through legislation and laws that support a free economy with low barriers to entry. The deeper the investment in privacy and protection, the less we will see innovation thrive.

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The rise in numbers of IoT devices presents risk too. Raj Samani, chief scientist and fellow at McAfee says, "When you bring connected devices into the home, you need to make sure you enjoy using it in a safe and risk-free way. While these threats can seem scary, people can do a number of things to easily protect their smartphones, and therefore their smart homes, from malware.

There's mobile security that warns you about risky apps before you download or use them and it often comes down to simple things such as being savvy with your passwords. As use of the Internet continues to balloon at an exponential rate, we will see both the number of attacks and the fallout caused by them grow in severity," says Sean McGrath, privacy expert and cybersecurity advocate at BestVPN. The Wi-Fi that connects these devices is expected to come under threat too.

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When RDP is poorly installed on systems that can be reached directly via the internet it can be attacked to gain unauthorized access. At that point, criminals can employ native operating system tools to stealthily abuse these compromised machines -- a technique known as 'living off the land' -- for a variety of malicious purposes, based on their configuration and connectivity. Jason Haddix, VP of researcher growth at Bugcrowd sees crowd sourcing as a way of addressing the security skills shortage, "Moving to new technology environments is going to require more skill and education to combat the new vulnerabilities that may appear, as well as increased crowdsourcing to keep pace with the growing attack vectors.

The skill shortage is growing at alarming rates so the industry will need to double down on recruitment and education to continue to build out the security community. Diversity was a big and important topic in and we'll no doubt see a strong emphasis on and encouraging and building diversity into the security community in Next year it's going to be about the individual contributors and tracking skill sets.

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