CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’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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Guillaume Tena, a researcher also known as Guillermito, is now being tried on criminal copyright charges, and facing jail time, in France. He wrote an article analyzing an antivirus product…
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Patent Holding Companies
Lately we’ve seen many complaints about the proliferation of patent holding companies, which buy patents, usually from small inventors, and then try to extract royalties, by negotiation or lawsuit, from…
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Whom Should We Search at the Airport?
Here’s an interesting security design problem. Suppose you’re in charge of airport security. At security checkpoints, everybody gets a primary search. Some people get a more intensive secondary search as…
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The "Pirate Pyramid"
This month’s Wired runs a high-decibel piece by Jeff Howe, on topsites and their denizens: When Frank … posted the Half-Life 2 code to Anathema, he tapped an international network…
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BSA To Ask For Expansion of ISP Liability
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a software industry group, will ask Congress to expand the liability of ISPs for infringing traffic that goes across their networks, according to a Washington…
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Predictions for 2005
Here is my list of twelve predictions for 2005. (1) DRM technology, especially on PCs, will be seen increasingly as a security and privacy risk to end users. (2) Vonage…
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2004 Predictions Scorecard
A year ago, I offered seven predictions for 2004. Today, as penance for sins committed in 2004, it’s my duty to exhume these predictions and compare them to reality. (1)…
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Recording Industry Publishing Infected P2P Files?
The recording industry may be publishing spyware-infested copies of their songs on P2P networks, according to a PC World story by Andrew Brandt and Eric Dahl. The files are encoded…
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Clip Blog
I now have a clip blog, at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/clips. There I’ll post quick links to things that I find interesting, with little or no commentary.
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Holiday Hiatus
I’m taking a holiday break from blogging. I’ll be back in early January.