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…
Open Source Development Labs, the organization for which Torvalds currently works, will henceforth require contributors to Linux to certify their contributions.…
The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion. Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more ho…
At the end every question concerning the information habitats may indeed boil down to a decision between freedom v. control. The legitimate function of this har…
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra & Michael Franz, Semantic Remote Attestation - A Virtual Machine directed approach to Trusted Computing, in: Proceedings of the…
Jan Camenish, Better Privacy for Trusted Computing Platforms, in: Samarati (ed.), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2004, Lecture Notes in Com…
Both Liberty Alliance and RSA have announced progress on their Federated Identity Management specs for Web Services on Monday and Tuesday respectively. Federat…
President Bush repeated his commitment to transfer "full sovereignty" to the people of Iraq on July 1. At the same time, he stated that American mili…
President Bush promised to destroy Abu Ghraib, the symbol, in his words, of "death and torture" under Hussein, and "disgraceful conduct" und…
Here we go again- The RIAA has sued another round of John Does for file sharing, this time 493 of them. Seems like they should have been able to find another 7…
Dan Ravicher of Public Patent Foundation provided testimony in a hearing before the National Institute of Health on whether the government should invoke a rare…
Today the National Conference on Digital Government Research kicks off in Seattle. Judging from the announcements in the conference program, this could become…
The use of trademarks as keywords to serve up competitive advertising when someone uses the trademark as a search term is a hot topic. Recently Google sued Ame…