In this week’s Security Ledger Podcast (#84): The 1990s era Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it a crime to subvert copy protections in software and hardware.  We speak with Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about his group’s efforts to win an exemption from that law for voice assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Also: February is Black History Month in the United States. We interview Corey Thomas, the Chief Executive Officer of the firm Rapid 7 about what it means to be a black man in the information security industry and about his path to the field. Free Alexa! As Security Ledger has reported: right to repair legislation is circulating in state houses across the country, as consumer advocates seek to enshrine in law the right of owners, researchers and independent repair shops to jailbreak, take apart, fix and otherwise tinker with connected devices -from smart phones […]

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