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Government Moves For Summary Judgment

Today the Government filed a Motion for Summary Judgment.   (sorry about formatting glitches in the PDF- this is how the Govt. sent it to us in a courtesy e-mai…

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Open Architecture

This is the Open Architecture as Communications Policy document.…

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i'm teaching

I'm delighted that I will be teaching a class in the fall in Stanford's computer science department.  Its goal is to teach computer scientists and engin…

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Wash. Post Takes on Rumsfeld

The Washington Post rebuts Rumsfeld's assertion that media criticisms of the Bush Administration's abetting of torture helps the enemy in a head-on edit…

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I Didn't Want to Show Fear to the Kids

In Fahrenheit 9/11, "[o]ne disturbing vignette shows Bush in a Florida elementary school, dumbstruck upon learning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with…

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DirecTVDefense Update

P2PNet, Slashdot, The New Jersey Star-Ledger, and the Associated Press are reporting on DirecTV's recent agreement with the EFF and the CIS Cyberlaw Clinic.…

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Who Says Nice Guys Don't Win?

Tim Berners-Lee receives the Finnish government's Millennium Technology Prize of a million Euros ($1.2 million).  Thanks, Tim, from all of us!…