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Software Liability Is Inevitable
"Moss is not alone in believing that software liability may be coming soon. Jennifer Granick, a long-time defense attorney for hackers and security researc…
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Black Hat Keynote Speaker Says Dream of Internet Freedom Is Dying
"The dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people, a top comput…
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Legal liability slows cybersharing, experts say
"The privacy-versus-information debate took center stage at one of Friday’s panels. The discussion among panelists that included Symantec’s Chief Executive…
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Security Research and the Law: What You Need to Know
"According to Hoffman, one potential legal landmine is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). One of its key provisions states that,"it is illegal t…
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Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC
"I would still be in prison if it weren’t for Tor, and he and Marcia Hofmann (who was co-counsel on my appeal) are the single two smartest lawyers you can…
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How Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy
"A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society in the “Weev” case), arguing h…
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Scripps Employees Called 'Hackers' For Exposing Massive Security Flaw
""There's this idea that you can access information, but if you access it fast then you're a criminal," Granick said. "If anything,…
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As cyberthreats mount, hacker’s conviction underscores criticism of government overreach
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, said prosecutors have been guilty of “overreach”…
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Amid Calls for Reform, a Rare Trial of Hacking Law
""Because the language is vague and the way we've used computers has changed so much, there has been a great amount of litigation and dispute abou…
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Swartz, Auernheimer, and beyond
"In this video from Shmoocon 2013, Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann from EFF discuss several recent prosecutions brought under the Act, including cas…
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Swartz, Auernheimer, and beyond
In this video from Shmoocon 2013, Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann from EFF discuss several recent prosecutions brought under the Act, including cases aga…
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Rep. Gohmert Wants A Law That Allows Victims To Destroy The Computers Of People Who Hacked Them
"...but as Marvin Ammori briefly mentioned in last week's favorites post, Rep. Louis Gohmert seems to not only think hacking back is a good idea, but t…