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
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by William McGeveran
A funny piece at Slate rants about the “security” questions increasingly asked by financial institutions in a doomed attempt to foil hackers and phishers. It links to this funnier rant by David Weinberger. (I’ve also complained about the privacy concerns related to this before, but that’s not so funny). As Slate sums [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Encryption, Intermediaries, Privacy, Security
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by William McGeveran
On December 8th I’ll have the privilege of speaking alongside many smart people at a symposium put on by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The title is Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The topic could hardly be more timely. Admission to the day-long event, sponsored by Microsoft, is available to [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Security, Social Networking
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
There’s significant furor over a photograph (found by Dan Twohig of MonsterMaritime) of an Ohio-class missile sub that shows the boat’s “stealth” propeller (designed to generate minimal noise and hence evade detection). The photo appears on Microsoft’s Live Local (run using Virtual Earth) service (a Google Earth competitor), though credit goes to Pictometry, which uses [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Search Engines, Security, national security
Posted on May 24th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Our local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, quoted me briefly at the end of a story about a freshly-passed Minnesota law concerning credit cards and identity theft. When a security breach involving credit card data is the fault of a retailer rather than the issuer of the card, the “Plastic Card Security Act” [...]
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Filed under: Intermediaries, Media, Minnesota, Privacy, Security
Posted on March 27th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Ethan Zuckerman has a fantastic post up about Google’s response to scams by hackers who hijack other peoples’ blogs and wikis: it lists the link with the warning message, “This site may harm your computer.” They do so based on analysis by the Berkman Center’s rapidly growing “Stop Badware” project, which analyzes malicious code [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Scholarship, Search Engines, Security, badware
Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by William McGeveran
The Washington Post has published a powerful op-ed piece by the anonymous recipient of one of the FBI’s national security letters, who is prohibited by law from disclosing even the fact that he received one. National security letters (or “NSLs”) are the demands for information, issued without any requirement of judicial approval, that were [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, ISP, NSA, Privacy, Security, national security
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Activists and policy wonks who work with environmental issues take it for granted that private corporate activities and markets lie at the center of both the problems and the potential solutions (like this and this) to issues such as water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. Organizations like Ceres work with businesses to help [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Network Neutrality, Privacy, Security, Spam, international
Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
Bill and I wrote about the government’s program of warrantless surveillance of certain electronic communications a while ago. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who sits on the federal district court here in Detroit, issued a decision finding the program (dubbed the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” by the Bush administration - legal argument by nomenclature?) unconstitutional. The [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Privacy, Security
Posted on February 1st, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
Simple: don’t send unsolicited e-mail, right? It’s more complex than that. Kelly Jackson Higgins at Dark Reading has a list of suggestions / rules on how not to be labeled as a bad actor. Some are easy: when someone asks not to receive messages anymore, unsubscribe them! Some are more complex: make sure you don’t [...]
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Filed under: ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Notes, Security, Spam, badware