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Tool Without A Handle: A Duty of Candor
“Tool Without A Handle: A Duty of Candor” The law and legal professional ethics require of counsel a duty of candor in the practice of law.[1] This includes…
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Talk at the DEF CON Crypto & Privacy Village
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Crypto & Privacy Village, which is part of the massive DEF CON computer security conference (and which I help…
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William Barr Despises Your Power to Keep Him from Snooping on You
Attorney General Bill Barr gave a speech yesterday at Fordham that revived the encryption debate in the U.S. after a relatively quiet period. Since the departur…
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Adapting Advertising Infrastructure for Content Regulation: WIPO’s BRIP Blacklist
In the name of “brand safety,” advertisers these days are working hard to better control where their ads appear online. Programmatic advertising with real-time…
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How to beat a copycat.
If you run a billion (or even million) dollar brand, does it make sense to spend a few thousand dollars to protect your mark from copycats? Or if you are a song…
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Bringing the Fight for Court Transparency to the Ninth Circuit
You may recall that in February, a federal district court in Fresno denied a petition I filed with the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern Cali…
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Raids on Journalists by Australian Police Underscore Need for Assistance and Access Act Repeal
Today I'm submitting my latest entry in a series of comments to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to remind them wh…
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Thoughts on Baltimore's ongoing ransomware situation
Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US Many of Baltimore’s city services are crippled by a cyberattack. Richard Forno, University o…
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Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare
Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare “The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelin…
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Open Letter to GCHQ Regarding Threats Posed by their Ghost Proposal
Today I join several cybersecurity, civil liberties, civil society organizations and researchers in responding to the United Kingdom's GCHQ recent proposal…
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Court Denies Petition to Unseal Its Perma-Sealed Surveillance Docket
After 32 months of litigation, my quest to unseal my local federal district court's sealed surveillance docket has ended with not a single page unsealed and…
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Essay in the Boston Review
Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect…