On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Nearly three decades ago, the Catholic Church wisely selected an individual from Eastern Europe, as that part of the world was moving towards freedom and integr…
Trusted Computing - Whom do we trust? Different versions of a talk at the CIS at Stanford Law School, March 28, 2005: slides, audio version, synchronized audio…
The slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford are now available online.…
From the NY Times story on intelligence failures: President Bush himself has never publicly blamed anyone in his administration, and some officials intimately…
Cass Sunstein in Republic.com worries about group polarization as the Internet makes it possible to restrict your daily diet of news to like-minded news sources…
Some information about digital rights management systems used in computer games may be found here.…
Thank you and rest in peace. Shanti, shanti, shanti.…
CIS filed comments to the US Copyright Office on behalf of Creative Commons and Save the Music explaining that Orphan Works pose a real problem and require a re…
Luck's Music et al v. Ashcroft raises a copyright clause claim against the URAA similar to that brought by the Golan v. Gonzalez case which I've been wo…
From Badmash. Well worth visiting.…
One of the features offered by TC is that it transforms trust in entities into trust in components (see here on pp. 644-645 for an explanation). In such an appr…
One of the criticisms raised against trusted computing is that it solves some potential problems of the future without doing the homework first that precedes th…