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Bruce Schneier Says This is Very Bad
When Bruce writes this, everyone should pay attention. In his Crypto-Gram newsletter from February 15, 2020 he writes”
“Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library.
A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates.
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by using a spoofed code-signing certificate to sign a malicious executable, making it appear the file was from a trusted, legitimate source. The user would have no way of knowing the file was malicious, because the digital signature would appear to be from a trusted provider.
He writes: “That's really bad, and you should all patch your system right now, before you finish reading this blog post.”
Click here for the full post and details.
ROSS Intelligence Announces New Decision Reader
ROSS Intelligence is a company “collaborating to build an artificial intelligence system that augments a lawyer’s skill and reasoning with curated collections of the most relevant legal authority”. They announced on February 3, 2020 “a new Decision Reader that will make legal research “more useful and efficient”. The full announcement with a short video overview is available here.
And for more on ROSS Intelligence, in podcast form, I found Bob Ambrogi’s interview with the founders enlightening. Click here for LawNext Episode 4.
Lex Machina Expanding Legal Analytics to State Courts
From Law.com on February 4, 2020 we learned that “Lex Machina is expanding the Legal Analytics platform it launched in federal courts to state courts, starting with Los Angeles and Houston.”
“Carla Rydholm, director of product management for the Menlo Park, California-based company, said a mix of practicality and customer demand drove Lex Machina’s choice to lead off its state court incursion with those two metro areas.
“Los Angeles civil trial court is the largest in the United States in terms of total cases filed,” she said.
“To us, that was really attractive to take on as a meaningful data set to bring legal analytics to. We also have a strong client base in Los Angeles and got feedback that that’s one of the must-have courts.”
Click here for the full article – an interesting read
PACER Fees Federal Case Heard at Court of Appeals
Also, from Law.com:
“A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday wrestled with a class-action lawsuit over the use of PACER fees, posing a number of hypotheticals about when people should be charged for accessing digital information on the federal judiciary.
The case is up on an interlocutory appeal from a ruling by Senior Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who found in 2018 that the federal judiciary misused millions of dollars collected in PACER fees. But she also disagreed with the argument brought forward by the class action that PACER fees should only be dedicated to running the online service.”
Click here for the rest of the article.
Alaska Courts Emailing Jury Summons
In an article by KTUU.com television news, we learned that (n)o longer will Alaska citizens be receiving those auspicious blue envelopes in the mail calling on them to report to court for jury duty.
That is if they are checking their email regularly.
In November, the court system began sending jury summonses electronically statewide in an effort to reduce labor and save money on postage stamps,
So far, officials say they have already saved $5,000 on postage alone. It doesn't sound like much, but with 120,000 jury summonses …
"Overwhelmingly, it's a very good way to communicate with people," said Alaska District Court Judge Leslie Dickson
She said only about 3% of the addresses end up being returned as invalid, while about 25% of people respond within a week of receiving the email.”
For more see the Alaska Courts jury website at https://courts.alaska.gov/jury/
HM Courts and Tribunals Services Describes Reasons for Building their Own Solutions
On January 9, 2020 blog post was made on the digital architecture for the England/Wales court automation systems. The article notes benefits such as control of the design and incremental updates, the ability to use open-source solutions, ability to focus on jurisdiction aligned digital solutions, improved data platform and tools, a cloud-first approach, and cyber safe software engineering.
Ireland Courts Automation Plans
From “The Irish Times” we learned about a 100 million pound digital-first plan for courts that could allow online guilty pleas.
The program plans for “(a) massive increase in the use of technology in the courts, including allowing online guilty pleas for less serious offences and streamed sittings that interested parties could contribute to remotely, are among proposals in a programme that could cost €100 million over the next 10 years.”
A 120-page report setting out the proposed implementation of a “digital first” strategy for the Courts Service is due to be published shortly, while a major plan for the modernisation of civil-law procedures in the High Court is also nearing completion.
The Courts Service and the judiciary are hoping that the introduction of updated procedures, and the use of state-of-the-art technology, will help convince the Government to put more money into the State’s creaking courts service.
“There is no point in us asking for money if we are doing things in an old-fashioned way,” said one informed source. (Editor's note: applause).
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