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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Another interesting day at the Meltdown conference. John Morris of CDT gave an eye-opening talk about online wiretapping and the policy debate over how to apply CALEA to VoIP services.…
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Too Much Spam, Not Enough Identification
Lots of good stuff yesterday at the Meltdown conference. Rather than summarize it all, let me give you two random observations about the discussion. The security session descended into a…
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PFIR "Internet Meltdown" Conference
From today through Wednesday, I’ll be at the PFIR Internet Meltdown conference. I’ll post reports on the conference here.
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Induce Act Hearing Video
If you missed yesterday’s Senate hearing on the proposed Induce Act, you can check out the video, thanks to Thomas Barger. (As a bonus, he also offers a video of…
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Induce Act Hearing Webcast, Live Discussion
Today’s Senate hearing on the Induce Act will be webcast (link) at 2:00 PM Eastern time. Anybody who is listening to the webcast is invited to discuss the hearing while…
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Vadasz Attacks INDUCE Act
An op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, by recently retired Intel VP Les Vadasz, urges the Senate to reject the INDUCE Act. News junkies may remember Vadasz’s testimony against the…
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MS to Sue Linux over Patents?
A two-year-old internal memo from Hewlett-Packard predicted that Microsoft would soon launch patent-infringement suits against companies that distribute open-source products such as Linux and Apache, according to a Joe Barr…
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Software That Lasts 200 Years
Dan Bricklin has a provocative new essay arguing that at least some software should be built to last for a long time, perhaps as long as 200 years. We need…
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In Search of Cool Stuff
In mid-August I’m going to a small technical workshop that has a “cool stuff” session, where everybody is invited to demonstrate or explain to the group something cool. It doesn’t…
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Inducing You to Read Ernest Miller
Ernest Miller is on a roll lately, especially on the topic of the INCUDE/IICA Act. I would be saying more about this dangerous bill, but Ernie is saying most of…