Month: June 2006
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Adobe Scares Microsoft with Antitrust Threat?
Microsoft has changed the next versions of Windows and Office after antitrust lawsuit threats from Adobe, according to Ina Fried’s article at news.com. Here’s a summary of Microsoft’s changes: [Microsoft] is making two main changes. With Vista [the next version of Windows], it plans to give computer makers the option of dropping some support for…
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Twenty-First Century Wiretapping: Content-Based Suspicion
Yesterday I argued that allowing police to record all communications that are flagged by some automated algorithm might be reasonable, if the algorithm is being used to recognize the voice of a person believed (for good reason) to be a criminal. My argument, in part, was that that kind of wiretapping would still be consistent…
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Twenty-First Century Wiretapping: Recognition
For the past several weeks I’ve been writing, on and off, about how technology enables new types of wiretapping, and how public policy should cope with those changes. Having laid the groundwork (1; 2; 3; 4; 5) we’re now ready for to bite into the most interesting question. Suppose the government is running, on every…