Pretty much everyone wants better information about how platforms propagate and govern online speech. We are probably about to get it. A major pending EU law wi…
Local governments are attractive targets for hackers and are ill-prepared Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Joe Biden on March…
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts here at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, par…
Ukraine conflict brings cybersecurity risks to US homes, businesses Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County All cybersecurity is local, regard…
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, part 3,…
Are you familiar with SAE J3016, the recommended practice that defines, among many other terms, the widely (mis)cited levels of driving automation? You can be!…
Five years to the day after I criticized Uber for testing its self-proclaimed "self-driving" vehicles on California roads without complying with the t…
Interoperability and distributed content moderation models have tremendous promise. They could temper major platforms’ power over public discourse, introducing…
Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Vigilantes “This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them…
“This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do…
This blog post is based off of a talk I gave on May 12, 2021 at the Stanford Computer Science Department’s weekly lunch talk series on computer security topics.…
Imagine you just purchased a painting from Sotheby’s called Portrait of Edmond Belamy (“Portrait”) for $432,500. Portrait was AI-generated. Your neighbor Jim ta…