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Backdoors, Spyware, and 'Going Dark'
The past week or two have been fascinating ones for those following cyber security news… - The director of the FBI has taken to the blogosphere to further push…
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The euro zone was supposed to strengthen European democracy. Instead, it’s undermining it.
Is the euro weakening democracy in Europe? After tense and bitter negotiations, Greece and the other euro zone countries (countries that share the common curre…
Hacking Team leak underscores complexity of regulating software
Among the 400 gigabytes of internal documents belonging to surveillance firm Hacking Team that were released online this week are details of the company's d…
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Robotics and the law: When software can harm you
"Recent headlines declaring “Robot Kills Man in Germany” are examples of growing news coverage about the impact of robots on society. This is the subject o…
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This teen won’t go to prison, even after he hacked 50,700 computers
"In the Finnish court, though, that's not an unusual punishment, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at…
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The Risks of Regulating Zero-Days
Among the principles that govern the current state of technology, two stand out as fundamental to our understanding of the information security problem. First,…
Other Europeans say they can’t trust Greece. The problem goes both ways.
Yet again, Greece is in last ditch negotiations with other European states in the euro zone, the group of countries that share the common currency, over a propo…
Opinion: Vaccination of immigrants without consent in Dilley was flagrant abuse
On the evening of Friday July 3, we became aware of a particular incident of our government’s systematic mistreatment of hundreds of young, captive children and…
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Matusiewiczes guilty of cyberstalking resulting in death
"A lot is riding on this appeal because the cyberstalking statute is already rarely used, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryla…
Wendell Wallach - Hearsay Culture Show #240 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
What the Future of Self-Driving Cars Might Look Like
Self-driving cars – long the dream of science fiction, are closer to reality than you might think. In fact they’ve already traveled more than one million miles…
Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries
Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both…