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Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies
"Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at Stanford, has contributed a patch for Firefox that will block third-party cookies from installing on the user's browse…
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Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers
"Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy a…
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Has Your Smartphone Hijacked Your Life?
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori debates the topic in this Slate article. * Date Published:02/22/2013 * Original Publication:Slate…
Innovation or Exploitation (Video)
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated fede…
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A National Priority and a Business Priority
Should Companies Tell Us When They Get Hacked? Lauren Gelman dicusses in this New York Times Op-Ed. * Date Published:02/21/2013 * Original Publication:New Yo…
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Petition forces White House to address why unlocking smartphones is illegal
"An attorney from Stanford’s Cyberlaw Clinic, Jennifer Granick, offered to help the 20-year-old Khanifar fight Motorola. The company eventually dropped its…
Innovation or Exploitation? (Audio)
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated fede…
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Washington Trade-Secret Theft Enforcement Weighs on Shareholders
CIS Junior Affiliate Scholar Richard Forno weighs in on White House talks about cracking down on international cyber espionage. The practicality of the endeavor…
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Innovation or Exploitation Wrap Up
Thanks to our speakers and everyone who came out last night for the Innovation or Exploitation event, highlighting problems the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CF…
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Author of Cell Phone Unlocking Petition Makes Final Push for 100K Signatures
""My immediate reaction was to shut down the business," Khanifar wrote, but he started working with Jennifer Granick, founder of Stanford's C…
The Case for Online Obscurity
Cross-posted from The Atlantic On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical re…
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Petition to Free the Cell Phone: Now is the Time
The Librarian of Congress recently decided in their triennial DMCA exemption rule-making process to remove the existing exemption that allowed individuals to un…