CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
-
Interesting article today in the Washington Post about some freelance consultants who apparently rummaged through a bunch of Department of Defense computers without authorization. What they found was pretty appalling.…
-
Keystone SpamKops (cont.)
A reader, Florian Weimer, points out that there has already been at least one apparently successful lawsuit against spam blacklisters.
-
Keystone SpamKops
Earlier this week, my ISP shut off this site, because the site had appeared on a list of “spammers” published by an outfit called SpamCop. Apparently, this happened because one…
-
We're Back
Well, we’re back on the air after a three-day interruption of service. The interruption was due to bogosity at SpamCop, which I’ll explain more fully in the next post.
-
Fuzzy Language, Fuzzy Thinking
One of the things I’ve learned in working with lawyers is that the language you use to describe something can powerfully shape your listeners’ ideas about it. Unless you’re very…
-
Microsoft Does The Right Thing
Microsoft has decided not to try using the DMCA to censor a paper by former MIT student Andrew “Bunnie” Huang about security mechanisms in Microsoft’s Xbox videogame console. (See this…
-
Serendipity
I’ve been reading recently about the history of technology. That history is filled with lessons for policy-makers now. Here is one: One of the reasons we should be wary about…
-
Self-Help
Lawyers use the term “self-help” to refer to all of the little steps people take to protect themselves. Locking your bicycle is self-help – even though it would not be…
-
RIAA To Do The Right Thing?
Fortune reports on the RIAA’s stunning new anti-infringement strategy of suing actual infringers: “The RIAA is considering a far riskier strategy–suing individuals who share large numbers of files on Kazaa,…
-
British Bill to Ban Mods to Cellphone ID Numbers
The British Parliament is now considering a bill that would make it illegal to change the IMEI number on a cell phone. Each phone has a unique IMEI which it…