"Watergate" for political scandal. "Deflategate" for NFL cheaters. "Fontgate" for forgers?

It works because "Fontgate" is about forgers using Microsoft's Calibri font to fake documents. In any case, the forged font story is a remake of scandals that actually date back to the original cover-up.

Fontgate really began in 1973, the same year Richard Nixon began the Watergate cover-up. But both gates reverberate in law and politics today.

If you have flown out of the country from New York City recently, the government scanned your face and stored it for law enforcement.

The same is true for anyone who has flown out of airports in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. It is a pilot program of the Department of Homeland Security, and the authorities are not done.

According to news reports, all foreign-bound Americans will be subject to facial recognition scans if the Trump Administration gets its way. Or as privacy advocates say, welcome to 1984.

Keyloggers are like knives.

They can be very useful, but also very dangerous. It depends on who is using them.

When anyone can get a keylogger for $10, it's a good idea to know how to use one. Even if you don't want to use keyloggers, at least you should know how dangerous they can be.

Maybe you can pick a face out of a crowd -- but how about a crowd of 10,000 faces?

Didn't think so. Neither did the lawyers who were trying to prove that a plaintiff was not at certain corporate events over a span of years. They had 10 terabytes of images but not enough time or money to review them.

Facial recognition software solved their problem. Don't you just love it when law and technology come together?

In a profession reluctant to leave black robes and white wigs to history, it's not surprising that lawyers have not kept up with technology.

Even the most progressive law firms have a long way to go before a robot takes over the scrivener's job. While all attorneys have smart devices, relatively few really know how to use them.

According to a recent survey, law firms are using less artificial intelligence than brain power. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Don't look now, but the FBI is on the run.

Twitter sued the FBI and the Department of Justice to establish the company's right to say how many national security requests it receives from the government. It is part of the company's transparency report to tell users how often governments request their information.

The government recently lost its motion for summary judgment, while Twitter won its motion for an expedited process. As the case heads to trial, free speech advocates and other social media companies are cheering from the sidelines.

Ignorance is no excuse, and intelligence is no guarantee.

In either case, it turns out that many lawyers do not know when their computers have been hacked. According to a survey of 200 law firms, about 40 percent did not realize their confidential client data had been breached.

Lawyers are not alone when it comes to cybersecurity challenges, but they have a high duty of care when it comes to protecting their information from hackers. Here are some signs your firm may have been hacked:

The smart robot taketh away, and the smart robot giveth.

That's not scripture, but it will do when work is hard to find. Google, which has launched a new feature on its search page, will help lawyers find jobs.

At a time when artificial intelligence is taking law jobs, it's certainly a blessing that AI also finds work for attorneys. Here's how it works:

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet.

Most of us are aware that our personally identifiable information, like our credit card numbers, are at risk when retailers are hacked. However, there may be even greater risks. Indeed, the U.S. government has issued a recent warning about a hacking campaign targeting nuclear and energy sectors.

According to a Reuters article, in recent months hackers have utilized phishing emails in an effort to "harvest credentials" in order to gain access to networks at nuclear and energy targets. Reuters cites a joint report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation as its source. The report indicates that at least in some instances hackers already have succeeded in gaining entry to certain networks, but the report did not identify specific targets that were compromised.

Is it ironic that a smart robot is replacing patent lawyers?

Or maybe it is more sardonic, especially for patent lawyers who have a problem with a robot that can do their job in seconds. But according to a startup called TurboPatent, that' exactly what RoboReview can do.

If it's true, patent attorneys should at least be grateful that the software robot is not well-dressed or funny. Otherwise, some lawyers would be out of a job.