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…
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi & Christian Stüble, Taming "Trusted Platforms" by Operating System Design, in: Chae & Yung (eds.), 4th International Worksh…
There are also areas outside trusted computing where something like an owner override feature already exists. Some web browsers (such as Safari, Opera, and Konq…
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…
Things are getting out of hand with comment spam round here. FYI, I'm dropping the Movable Type hammer. (AKA the delete comment button).…
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…
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…
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…
January 2004: Naval Postgraduate School, CISR Invited Lecture Series…
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&#…
John Palfrey paid me a nice comment on his blog-- but it got me thinking. He, and others, write their thoughts about digital democracy daily on their blogs. I…
This NYT article explains how millions of wireless users are signing contracts where the fine print allows providers to add them to a phone directory. I like t…
Excellent summary- style piece in the NYT: The Tyranny of Copyright. The type of piece you can give your mother to read so she understands why you are not '…