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…
A revised and expanded schedule of events for the upcoming CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure conference is now online. Register before Nov 1 and save.…
3rd Circuit Appeals Court Brief Opposing FCC Media Ownerhsip Rules…
Supreme Court Brief on Benefits of Municipal Ownership of Telecom & High Speed Internet Facilities…
Shaking the Foundations 2003 is an annual student-organized conference that brings together law students, practitioners, and academics from around the country w…
I will be speaking on a panel on "Equally in war and in peace: An Examination of Civil Rights in the Wake of 9/11" on 11/9 at Shaking the Foundations…
In case you missed it before the DoJ removed it from its servers, here is the original press release announcing Bret McDanel's [wrongful] conviction. And h…
In the ongoing revolution of how scientific information is being published, major German research organizations have published a Berlin Declaration on Open Acce…
The beautiful and talented Donna Wentworth recently called me a "Stupid Patent Avenger." While I'm usually not tickled when people use the word &…
October 22, 2003: Admission of Bad Conviction Shows Hacking Act Needs Clarity, Lawyer Says, Washington Internet Daily…
There's something weird going on in the implementation of touchscreen technology for voting machines: the company Diebold is making tons of voting machines…
The digital commoners at Swarthmore are speaking out about voting-machine manufacturer Diebold's attempt to use copyright to hide documents that reveal seri…
A few days ago, bIPlog pointed to a New Scientist article on a clever anti-piracy scheme called Fade, distributed by (of all people), Macrovision. Fade is desi…