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Bush Afraid of Unscripted Questions

George Bush has difficulty appearing alone in the face of any unscripted questions.  The Washington Post reports: "Bush has held the fewest solo news conf…

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Back from Brazil

I return to blogging after a wonderful visit to Brazil.  I deeply appreciate my gracious host, Luiz Vigil, Dean of the Escola Superior do Minesterio Publico, in…

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Schneier on RFID

Amplifying Steve: Bruce Schneier just wrote a good op-ed in the International Herald Tribune on RFID.…

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RFID in our wallets

The Virginia legislature heard testimony today about the wisdom of implanting RFID chips in their state driver's licenses.  No state currently uses RFID chi…

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Areas of interest

Area of interest (1): The Safe Harbor data protection system I am interested in the (practical) advantages and disadvantages of the Safe Harbor framework the E…

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will post soon

been working on a paper on international commercial arbitration which should be done at the end of the week.  will get back to academic copyright issues then.…

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FactCheck.what?

I can't vouch for this, but the folks at Boalt are pointing out that in last night's debate Dick Cheney pointed viewers to FactCheck.com. He probably me…

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Waidner, Property Attestation

Jonathan Poritz, Matthias Schunter, Els Van Herreweghen, Michael Waidner, Property Attestation - Scalable and Privacy-friendly Security Assessment of Peer Compu…

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Mac OS Xbox

I can't help but find it wÿkked awesome that some hackers have managed to successfully install Mac OS X on the Xbox (screenie). Sure, the Xbox was heavily m…

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Too good to not link to

Ballmer, a MS exec, calls all iPod users thieves. I prefer the term "pirate", thank you very much.…