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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Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy have introduced a new bill, the PIRATE Act, that would authorize the U.S. government to bring civil lawsuits against copyright infringers, and would create…
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Witty Worm Analysis
Peter Harsha at CRA points to an interesting analysis, by Colleen Shannon and David Moore of CAIDA, of the recent Witty worm.
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Light Weight
Derek Slater discusses Fraunhofer’s new Light Weight DRM system. Derek is skeptical but states his opinion cautiously, not being a technologist. In any case, Derek gets it right. It’s hard…
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Utah Anti-Spyware Bill Becomes Law
Ben Edelman reports that Utah’s governor signed HB323 into law yesterday. That’s the anti-spyware law I discussed two weeks ago. I guess we’ll find out whether the bill’s opponents were…
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Used Hard Disks Packed with Confidential Information
Simson Garfinkel has an eye-opening piece in CSO magazine about the contents of used hard drives. Simson bought a pile of used hard drives and systematically examined them to see…
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Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere
Frank Field points to an upcoming symposium at Seton Hall on “Peer to Peer at the Crossroads: New Developments and New Directions for the Law and Business of Peer-to-Peer Networking”.…
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Security Attacks on Security Software
A new computer worm infects PCs by attacking security software, according to a Brian Krebs story in Saturday’s Washington Post. The worm exploits flaws in two personal firewall products, made…
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Gleick on the Naming Conundrum
James Gleick has an interesting piece in tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, on the problems associated with naming online. If you’re already immersed in the ICANN/DNS/UDRP acronym complex, you won’t…
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New Survey of Spam Trends
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released results of a new survey of experiences with email spam. The report’s headline is “The CAN-SPAM Act Has Not Helped Most…
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ATM Crashes to Windows Desktop
Yesterday, an ATM in Baker Hall at Carnegie Mellon University crashed, or had some kind of software error, and ended up displaying the Windows XP desktop. Some students started Windows…