Summary: In our 164th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Paul Rosenzweig, and Brian Egan discuss: the cyber EO is finally out - and just in time for wCry; WCry causes ransomware meltdown ; given a choice of blaming Microsoft, who wrote the bad code and the limited security update, the hackers who wrote the ransomware, or the GRU, who revealed the vulnerability, US reporters blame … NSA; Brad Smith of Microsoft thinks it shows we need a digital Geneva accord; NSA's latest problems with compliance and the FISA court; Abbott Labs proposes a settlement with MedSec that would prevent it from talking to government in the absence of a preexisting inquiry and notice to Abbott; if Trump taped Comey, does it matter where he did it? Two-party consent rules. Our guest interview is with Tim Maurer, Fellow and co-director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
