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A Click on a URL Isn’t Enough for a Search Warrant Prevalence of Link Shorteners and Other Tools Mean You Might Not Know Where You Are Going San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an appeals court to ensure that a click on a URL isn’t enough to get a search warrant for your house. In U.S. v. Nikolai Bosyk , law enforcement discovered a link to a file-sharing service that was suspected of being used to share child pornography. Prosecutors got a warrant to search Bosyk’s home based only on the fact that someone attempted to access the link from his home. The warrant application included no information on why or how the user encountered the link, or if he had any knowledge of what it linked to. In an amicus brief filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, EFF argues that law enforcement should gather more evidence before subjecting someone to an invasive home search. It’s not always clear what kinds of sites URLs link to, par...

Last year, we put out a theory on edge computing and published a white paper addressing the growth of cloud computing and the need to rethink the level of redundancy required for the physical infrastructure equipment remaining on-premise, or at the edge. Now we want to challenge the theory and find out if it’s true. Although we could attempt this challenge in many ways, we kept coming back to the retail industry where Schneider Electric has been doing a lot of work. To us, it’s a fascinating case study because all the retailers seem to be doing the same thing: trying to figure out how to survive against Amazon in a time of record store closings and vast changes in shopping behavior. IoT, Augmented Reality, & Artificial Intelligence: Pick your Favorite Buzzword With so many retail chains closing their doors, it’s life or death for these companies and they all seem to believe one basic thing: technology may be their way home. If they apply new technology, they should be able to...