Posted on August 24th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
I had a fun podcast interview with Spencer Mazyck of Bloomberg Law about this summer’s wave of hacking. We talk about who hacks and why, what companies can do about it (treat it like disaster planning), and whether we need to worry about cyberwar. Good fun. I botched the story about Robert Mueller slightly: he [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, badware, Computer crime, Digital Media, Google, Internet & Society, Media, national security, Privacy, Security, Software, Video
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer
Eric Goldman points to a highly enjoyable filing by one David Stebbins against Google, claiming he has won an arbitration award of, wait for it, $500 billion. Even with the tax cuts still in effect, I assume that the government’s cut of this award will help the deficit a good deal. How did Stebbins win [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, civil procedure, Court Decisions, Google, Intermediaries, Peer Production, Search Engines, Video
Posted on December 19th, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
Saturday Night Live has a great skit on Julian Assange. Any bit that includes the phrase “good-natured birds” has to be awesome, and it is. (Hat tip: Jen Schwartz, who knows her cybersecurity.)
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Filed under: Computer crime, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Social Networking, Video
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
An impressive fake video is making the rounds of the Internet; it purportedly shows a French government official announcing that the Republic would repay the enormous sum Haiti sent to France in exchange for independence in 1803. The video is hosted at http://www.diplomatiegov.fr/, a domain name very similar to the French Foreign Ministry site, which is [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, First Amendment, Intermediaries, international, Internet & Society, Media, Video
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by William McGeveran
Here’s a jaw-dropping accusation of privacy invasion, and another example of some major gaps in privacy law. A complaint filed in federal court in Philadelphia claims that officials at suburban Harriton High School remotely turned on the cameras in laptops issued to students and captured images, including at their homes. The school denies the allegations [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Tim Armstrong
I had been hoping to read Bill Patry’s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, over the winter holidays, but, thanks to a combination of short-fuse writing projects (about which I’ll have more to say soon) and a fairly grueling committee schedule (about which the less said, the better), that probably will not happen [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Music, Video
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
Domino’s has just started a new ad that makes fun of Papa John’s for its defense in a false advertising case: challenged by Pizza Hut over its claim that “Better Ingredients” mean Papa John’s has “Better Pizza,” PJ responded that the statements were “puffery.” Puffery sounds like something related to the Big Bad Wolf, but [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Derek Bambauer
An anonymous student at BLS has started a great blog, You Can Wordify Anything If You Just Verb It. It collects the more… interesting… things said by both profs and students. I’m already spending significant cycles trying to guess the provenance of some of these quotes. Given that certain of them mention Internet Law, I [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Iranian demonstrators protesting the recent election results (which look dicey) – and their opponents – are using networked technologies to communicate and organize, including Twitter, blogs, SMS, and the like. John Palfrey, Rob Faris, and Bruce Etling point out, though, that these capabilities, while empowering, won’t carry the day. Whether the demonstrations succeed depends on [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
You can follow along with Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009 (“Creating the Future”) even if you’re not here in DC (where the weather is surprisingly lovely for June): via Twitter at Tweezup, the CFP blog, and streaming video. The Filtering panel, which also now includes Catherine Crump from the ACLU and Nicole Wong from Google, [...]
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