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Owner Override IV
There are also areas outside trusted computing where something like an owner override feature already exists. Some web browsers (such as Safari, Opera, and Konq…
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Bounty-hunters -- the Net's new lawmen?
First SCO, now Microsoft -- offering bounties for the author(s) of MyDoom. Okay, putting aside the fact that the author(s) of MyDoom (*cough*scriptkiddies*coug…
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Comment spam
Things are getting out of hand with comment spam round here. FYI, I'm dropping the Movable Type hammer. (AKA the delete comment button).…
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A great reminder of why fair use matters
Coming to the San Francisco Independent Film Festival is the new film Value Added Cinema; a flick constructed entirely by editing together egregious product-pla…
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Counting on Democracy
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is pleased to present a screening of scenes from “Counting on Democracy,” a new documentary by Stanford…
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Real-world consequences of MMOG investigations
A few days ago, I sort of glibly linked to an article about a teenager ("Evangeline") who was running a cyber-brothel in The Sims Online. Well, the…
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NPS
January 2004: Naval Postgraduate School, CISR Invited Lecture Series…
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How antiprivacy is Dean's smartcard?
I like Howard Dean. Don't know if I'll vote for him or not, but I admire his willingness to go out there and get angry. But until a few months ago, I&#…
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democratic discourse
John Palfrey paid me a nice comment on his blog-- but it got me thinking. He, and others, write their thoughts about digital democracy daily on their blogs. I…
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the end of the wireless sanctuary
This NYT article explains how millions of wireless users are signing contracts where the fine print allows providers to add them to a phone directory. I like t…
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Copy Left
Excellent summary- style piece in the NYT: The Tyranny of Copyright. The type of piece you can give your mother to read so she understands why you are not '…
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FOIA's documents
You can find the documents that NASA turned over to EPIC, as well as other information about the Northwest discosures of Passenger data at the EPIC website.…