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toorcon 2004

September 25, 2004: Toorcon 2004, San Diego, CA, Patriot Act, Privacy and You…

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Published Works

Published Works Legal and Policy Responses to the Disappearing "Teacher Exception" or Copyright Ownership in the 21st Century University, 4 MINN. INT…

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ACU on Induce

Courtesy of the American Conservative Union (site seems to not be working). Here's the complete ad [PDF]. (Via BoingBoing)…

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Legal concert downloading

Quick plug. Sharing the groove. This site + BitTorrent = live, concert-recorded bliss. They've got hundreds of high-quality concert recordings. I'm d/li…

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Can-Spam report

The FTC's report to Congress -- "A CAN-SPAM Informant Reward System" -- is now available at the FTC's website.  Here's the link to the pdf…

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PA Supreme Court: "A horse is a horse"

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced this week that for purposes of the drunk driving laws, a "horse is a horse" and not a vehicle.  The dissenter…

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Recent Data Privacy Headlines

Interesting debate today (that I listened to via C-SPAN Radio) in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on legislation to reform Intelligence, called the “C…

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Subway maps of law

When will Susan stop uncovering amazing ideas? I dunno, probably never. Subway maps of law is a great idea . . . but I've been duped before. I spent most o…

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Secure yourself

I think I posted this once before, but it's worth reposting. Many modern email clients include hooks for encryption/digital signatures that can go a long wa…

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The challenges of 100% utilization

This one is lodged somewhere between picayune tidbit and outright plug. My alma mater, Dartmouth College has been at the forefront of wireless deployment for se…