Posted on October 8th, 2008 by William McGeveran
A grand jury has handed down this indictment against David Kernell, the son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee, for allegedly hacking into Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. (News story here.) Professors Orin Kerr and Paul Ohm, probably the two most knowledgeable scholars in the country on the subject of computer crime, [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Intermediaries, Privacy
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
[Update Oct. 3 5:45PM - Skype's president responds, and says Skype was unaware of TOM's monitoring. But this is why tech firms partner with domestic Chinese firms: to handle uncomfortable requests such as filtering and surveillance... (via Wired)]
The New York Times reports on some terrific research done by my former ONI colleague Nart Villeneuve - [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Encryption, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Security, Software, international
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by William McGeveran
[Important UPDATES below]
I just looked at Facebook’s privacy settings to remind myself how to opt out of the Beacon feature for the article I am writing about social marketing. Amidst the redesign and snappy new home page, it appears the tab I described earlier this month is now gone. Has Facebook quietly pulled [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Lifehacker and CNET point out that IBM is releasing an “Ultralite” version of iNotes — a way of accessing your Lotus Domino (= Notes server) e-mail, contacts, and calendar from an Apple iPhone. This is cool, and a nice addition (competitor) to the current POP / IMAP options for iPhone. I’ve held off on buying [...]
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Filed under: ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Notes, Security, Software
Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The South Carolina Law Review is launching a pilot program where submitted articles are evaluated by peer reviewers who are knowledgeable about the article’s subject matter. This is terrific news: peer review will help improve the quality of published articles, and will increase the likelihood that published pieces are genuinely novel contributions to the scholarly [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Law School, Peer Production, Scholarship
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
A recent dispute in Wisconsin has raised an issue I thought long-dead: whether permission is required to link to a Web site. Jennifer Reisinger, a resident of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, runs a Web design business and is also a political gadfly - she set up a Web site that seeks to have the mayor of Sheboygan, [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
American Airlines is testing in-flight wi-fi Internet access, and flight attendants want something to be done to prevent passengers from looking at naughty things in flight. (”something” = filter the content). This brings back some funny travel memories from my days in consulting, such as seeing someone on a flight to Toronto openly reading Playboy, [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
This post analyzes a new privacy lawsuit against Facebook. But first, some context: I received an e-mail from a friend this weekend that read, in part:
Subject: Privacy Code Red!
How do I make it so that my Fandango purchases don’t show up on Facebook???? Is it going to happen if I buy a [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Scholarship, Social Networking
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Several acquaintances have mentioned, or e-mailed, or (appropriately enough) posted on Facebook this New York Times Magazine article from Sunday about Facebook, Twitter, and “ambient awareness.” A lot of it will be fairly old news to many readers here, and ground that I am sure will be covered more completely by John Palfrey and [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Books, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Scholarship
Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The Washington Post has a great piece about the InfoWar Monitor project, including interviews with my former ONI colleagues Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski. Cyberwar is a new, murky, and fascinating zone of interstate conflict. Most interestingly, it’s one where combat is outsourced: hackers and denial of service attacks can come from volunteers and on-line [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Security, international, national security