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Administration Has Difficulty Counting

The State Department acknowledged a significant undercount of terrorism incidents in its annual report on terror.  It had earlier said that the report demonstra…

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Flick Australia

Catherine Flick, The Controversy over Trusted Computing, University of Sydney B.Sc. thesis, June 2004.…

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Wizards of OS Day One

First of all - this is huge. The third annually Wizards of OS has managed to draw both a profound crowd and a high profile range of speakers.The event took of w…

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US Government Torture Photos Revealed

The Washington Post produces more evidence of official torture by the United States, documenting the use of dogs to frighten--and attack--prisoners. The distur…

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Don't Talk, Guantanamo Workers Advised

Guantanamo employees are advised by the Government not to speak with defense lawyers for Gitmo prisoners about events there, according to USA Today: The docume…

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David throws Goliath into Reexam

From Dan Ravicher at Public Patent Foundation NEW YORK -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an Order granting the Public Patent Foundati…

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The Post-Standard: Locals surf wi-fi wave

Upstate New Yorkers are now enjoying wi-fi hot spots, according to this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard. CIS Executive Director Jennifer Granick is quoted…

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Torture Is Okay, Really, Memo

March 6, 2003 memo made available online, with a few redactions, by Wall Street Journal.  The reliance on our reservation that interprets torture narrowly may c…

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Moot Court for moolah?

No joke, this ad is running on lawjobs.com: Now casting lawyers for new legal show. Real lawyers arguing real cases. Please E-mail resume/picture ASAP to nbcla…