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Bounty-hunters -- the Net's new lawmen?
First SCO, now Microsoft -- offering bounties for the author(s) of MyDoom. Okay, putting aside the fact that the author(s) of MyDoom (*cough*scriptkiddies*coug…
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Comment spam
Things are getting out of hand with comment spam round here. FYI, I'm dropping the Movable Type hammer. (AKA the delete comment button).…
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A great reminder of why fair use matters
Coming to the San Francisco Independent Film Festival is the new film Value Added Cinema; a flick constructed entirely by editing together egregious product-pla…
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Counting on Democracy
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is pleased to present a screening of scenes from “Counting on Democracy,” a new documentary by Stanford…
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Real-world consequences of MMOG investigations
A few days ago, I sort of glibly linked to an article about a teenager ("Evangeline") who was running a cyber-brothel in The Sims Online. Well, the…
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How antiprivacy is Dean's smartcard?
I like Howard Dean. Don't know if I'll vote for him or not, but I admire his willingness to go out there and get angry. But until a few months ago, I&#…
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FOIA's documents
You can find the documents that NASA turned over to EPIC, as well as other information about the Northwest discosures of Passenger data at the EPIC website.…
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Op-Ed Columnist: Democracy at Risk
On January 23, 2004, Paul Krugman wrote in a column for the NYT: Internal e-mail from Diebold, the most prominent maker of electronic voting machines (though n…
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Court Denies Ampex's Motion, Orders More Briefing. Hearing Set for February 3, 2004
The Court issued this order denying Ampex's motion to strike the costs awarded by the Court of Appeal. The Court ordered supplemental briefing on the issue…
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Update on NWA Passenger IDing
In a follow-up to an earlier story, a shocking new development! NWA's unauthorized disclosure of passenger information has led to a class-action lawsuit. Ga…
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MMOG currency exchange online
The BBC has a fascinating story about a new exchange that permits one to exchance currencies among some of the various massively-multiplayer online games that a…
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Eldred.cc
Clinic students assisted in updating and creating new content for the eldred.cc website.…