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In the wake of Hurricane Michael in October, a single house was left standing tall on its pillars,  completely unscathed, amid what was otherwise rubble on Mexico Beach, Florida. It stands as a lesson in emergency preparedness for anyone responsible for business continuity for a commercial or industrial building. As storms around the globe are increasingly becoming more severe, businesses need to dust off their plans and reassess everything from protection of critical infrastructure to backup power plans. (AccuWeather/ Jonathan Petramala) Going above and beyond for disaster preparedness The home’s owners, Dr. Lebron Lackey, a radiologist from Cleveland, Tenn., and his uncle, Russell King, an attorney from Chattanooga, went above and beyond the norm to ensure their house could withstand the worst. “Every speck of that house from below the sand to the top of the roof, we studied from the concept of making it hurricane-proof,” Dr. Lackey says in this Weather.com video . Among ...

From Canada to Argentina, Security Researchers Have Rights—Our New Report EFF is introducing a new Coders’ Rights project to connect the work of security research with the fundamental rights of its practitioners throughout the Americas, supporting the right of free expression that lies at the heart of researchers’ creation and use of computer code to examine computer systems and relay their discoveries among their peers and to the wider public.   To kick off the project,  EFF published a whitepaper today, “ Protecting Security Researchers’ Rights in the Americas ” ( PDF ), to provide the legal and policy basis for our work, outlining human rights standards that lawmakers, judges, and most particularly the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , should use to protect the fundamental rights of security researchers. We started this project because hackers and security researchers have never been more important to the security of the Intern...