The Grammar and Use of Initialisms by the U.S. Federal Government

This research on the use of initialisms by the United States federal government was produced during our publication of a paper in the Springer journal, Science and Engineering Ethics. The editor of that journal thought it would be worth publishing this information separately, for the benefit of others. We agreed; the following summarizes what we […]

Lawyers slow to adopt email encryption and other forms of secure communications, ABA survey finds

We re-print here a short article from the ABA Journal of October 5, 2015 which provides some numbers for various concerns we often express to law firms when we find security issues with electronic communications that might negatively impact their clients, in particular whistleblowers and qui tam relators: If you’ve ever received an email from […]

Our choices for more secure and confidential communications

Why are we changing our phone service? We have for several years used a Skype telephone service to receive general voicemails. However, since last fall, we have had continual issues keeping that service functioning. Recently, for example, we learned that calls we made to the service went to voicemail, consistent with our longstanding program preferences. […]