I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Memos detailing Red Cross complaints of abuse at Guantanamo are discussed in an article by Scott Higham today in the Washington Post. The memos were leaked to…
You can check Wendy Seltzers impressions of the WOS at her blog.…
The Administration's disclosure of its latest scandal--the partisan undercount of terrorist activity--occurs on a Friday afternoon/evening. This is the cle…
The State Department acknowledged a significant undercount of terrorism incidents in its annual report on terror. It had earlier said that the report demonstra…
Catherine Flick, The Controversy over Trusted Computing, University of Sydney B.Sc. thesis, June 2004.…
First of all - this is huge. The third annually Wizards of OS has managed to draw both a profound crowd and a high profile range of speakers.The event took of w…
The Washington Post produces more evidence of official torture by the United States, documenting the use of dogs to frighten--and attack--prisoners. The distur…
Guantanamo employees are advised by the Government not to speak with defense lawyers for Gitmo prisoners about events there, according to USA Today: The docume…
Bush says he didn't violate U.S. or international law--but this begs the question: Is he simply relying on the contorted legal opinions upon which the Admin…
From Dan Ravicher at Public Patent Foundation NEW YORK -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an Order granting the Public Patent Foundati…
Upstate New Yorkers are now enjoying wi-fi hot spots, according to this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard. CIS Executive Director Jennifer Granick is quoted…
March 6, 2003 memo made available online, with a few redactions, by Wall Street Journal. The reliance on our reservation that interprets torture narrowly may c…