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NY Times Drumbeat on the March to War
The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion. Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more ho…
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Mapping the Information Environment
At the end every question concerning the information habitats may indeed boil down to a decision between freedom v. control. The legitimate function of this har…
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Haldar, Semantic Remote Attestation
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra & Michael Franz, Semantic Remote Attestation - A Virtual Machine directed approach to Trusted Computing, in: Proceedings of the…
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Camenish, Better Privacy
Jan Camenish, Better Privacy for Trusted Computing Platforms, in: Samarati (ed.), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2004, Lecture Notes in Com…
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New Specs on Federated Identity Management
Both Liberty Alliance and RSA have announced progress on their Federated Identity Management specs for Web Services on Monday and Tuesday respectively. Federat…
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Faking Sovereignty
President Bush repeated his commitment to transfer "full sovereignty" to the people of Iraq on July 1. At the same time, he stated that American mili…
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Erasing Abu Ghraib
President Bush promised to destroy Abu Ghraib, the symbol, in his words, of "death and torture" under Hussein, and "disgraceful conduct" und…
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Don't spend that graduation check yet-
Here we go again- The RIAA has sued another round of John Does for file sharing, this time 493 of them. Seems like they should have been able to find another 7…
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Patents should not deprive poor people of AIDS drugs
Dan Ravicher of Public Patent Foundation provided testimony in a hearing before the National Institute of Health on whether the government should invoke a rare…
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National Conference on Digital Government in Seattle
Today the National Conference on Digital Government Research kicks off in Seattle. Judging from the announcements in the conference program, this could become…
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Are you the keymaster?
The use of trademarks as keywords to serve up competitive advertising when someone uses the trademark as a search term is a hot topic. Recently Google sued Ame…
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Reply Brief
NASA filed their reply brief today (Pesonen Declaration). Sarah Givan will argue the case on June 4, 2004 before Judge Whyte at 9 am.…