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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It’s the second day of the Berkeley DRM Workshop, a wonderful conference. Donna points to live commentary from several bloggers. I was on a panel with David Wagner, Hal Abelson,…
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Lexmark Gets Preliminary Injunction
A news.com story by David Becker reports that a Federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction against Static Control in the DMCA lawsuit brought by Lexmark. To review, Lexmark makes…
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Congressmen Tell Universities to Stop P2P
Declan McCullagh at CNet news.com reports on a congressional committee hearing today about P2P copyright infringement at universities. Some in Congress are turning up the rhetorical heat on universities, urging…
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Berman Bill May Not Return
According to an article by Jon Healey in Friday’s Los Angeles Times, Rep. Howard Berman may not reintroduce his “peer-to-peer hacking” bill in the new Congress. The bill, you may…
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E-Voting Victory (Probably)
Santa Clara County, California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, has decided that their new electronic voting machines must offer voter-checkable audit records. An AP story at the New…
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Another Attempted Suppression of Security Research
Researchers at Cambridge University published information on a flaw in banks’ procedures that rogue bank employees may have been using to learn the PINs from many customers’ ATM cards. It…
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"Accidental Privacy Spills"
Don’t miss James Grimmelmann’s essay of that title over at LawMeme. The essay tells the story of how an email that journalist Laurie Garrett sent to a few friends leaked…
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Free Storage
Dan Gillmor’s Sunday column points out that hard-disk data storage now costs less than one dollar per gigabyte. Thanks to Moore’s law, the cost of storage is asymptotically approaching zero.…
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Another Palladium Article
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a disappointing article on Microsoft’s Palladium. Like many Palladium articles, this one seems to look for conflict and disagreement rather than an explanation of…
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Too. Much. Snow.
This is one of the heaviest snows in recent memory here in Princeton. At least two feet have fallen at my house, and it’s still coming down hard. Up and…