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.
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Richard Clarke, the White House cybersecurity czar, in a speech today at the Black Hat conference, called for legal protection for tinkering by security researchers. According to an Associated Press…
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Vaidhyanathan: Copyright as Cudgel
Nice article on copyright abuses by Siva Vaidyanathan in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle is read mostly by professors, so the article talks at length about the…
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Berman-Coble Bill: Green Light for Cyber-Attacks
In the current climate of concern about cyber-attacks, it’s astonishing that Congress is considering a bill that would legalize a wide range of cyber-attacks – yet that is just what…
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Australian DMCA Does Not Prohibit Mod Chips
An Australian judge has ruled that the Australian version of the DMCA does not apply to the sale of “mod chips” for Sony PlayStation game consoles. Technological background: Sony PlayStation…
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Edelman, ACLU File Anti-DMCA Suit
Ben Edelman, a soon-to-be law student at Harvard, has filed, with help from the ACLU, a lawsuit challenging restrictions on his right to disassemble and study a Web censorware product…
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Princeton Accused of "Hacking" Yale
[This is slightly off-topic, but as a Princeton person I have gotten lots of questions about this incident.] Somebody in Princeton’s admissions office, probably an associate dean of admissions, apparently…