Obama Policy on Zero Days Craps Out
Yesterday afternoon, the White House put out a statement describing its vulnerability disclosure policies: the contentious issue of whether and when government…
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First European Constitutional Court Suspends Data Retention After the Decision of the Court of Justice of EU
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The Branding of a Bug: How Heartbleed Became a Household Name
"Still, how Heartbleed was transformed from a security hole in an obscure part of open-source encryption software into a brand recognized around the world…
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Hackonomics: The cost of getting caught
"Ms. Hofmann explained, Lawyers' rates are highly variable — they depend on years of experience, depth of specialization, technical proficiency, where…
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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Calls For Canada To Support Ban On Fully Autonomous Weapons
"“Allowing machines to determine who should live or die in a conflict is an issue that concerns all states. The United States has articulated its policy on…
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FCC Move Seen as Disaster for Online Start-Ups
"“We know that users will leave a service if it is slow to load, or if it is unreliable,” said attorney Marvin Ammori, a fellow with the New America Founda…
The Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
In 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and in her email inbox. Around the same time group…
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Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges a…
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The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care.
Cross-posted from Netarchitecture.org Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with ang…
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Net Neutrality Advocates Prepare To Fight Pay-For-Play Proposal
"A regulation allowing discrimination could also empower ISPs to charge companies a fee to exclude their content from consumers' bandwidth caps, writes…
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Quinn: Supreme Court should clarify Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age
""Some members of the court will certainly try to consider the place mobile devices play in modern life," said Jennifer Granick, director of civi…
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Good Fences Make Better Data Brokers
Woodrow Hartzog, Chain Link Confidentiality, 46 Georgia L. Rev. 657 (2012) available at SSRN. Since at least the early 2000s, privacy scholars have illuminated…