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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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…
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Biology Journals to Withhold Research
Sunday’s Washington Post published an AP article by Joseph B. Verrengia, detailing plans by journal editors to “Excise Material That Could Be Used by Militants to Help Make Biological Weapons.”…
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Voting: Is Low-Tech the Way to Go?
Karl-Friedrich Lenz, in reply to my previous e-voting posting, sings the praises of old-fashioned paper ballots, citing a Glenn Reynolds column. I agree with Lenz and Reynolds about the virtues…
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IEEE Wants DMCA "Clarified"
Several writers on Slashdot and in blogland have applauded IEEE’s new position on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (IEEE is a professional society for electrical engineers.) It’s good to see…
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Computer Scientists' Campaign for Trustworthy E-Voting
Many computer scientists (including me) have endorsed a statement opposing the use of electronic voting machines that don’t provide a voter-verifiable audit trail. What this means is that the voter…
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Comments on the Proposed Encryption Penalties
A new anti-terrorism bill criminalizes some uses of encryption: Sec. 2801. Unlawful use of encryption (a) Any person who, during the commission of a felony under Federal law, knowingly and…
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CCIA Files Antitrust Complaint against Microsoft
The Computer and Communications Industry Association, a trade group, has filed a lengthy antitrust complaint against Microsoft with European authorities. The complaint centers on allegedly anticompetitive aspects of Windows XP.…
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Terrorist Website Hoaxer Responds
Brian McWilliams, who perpetrated the terrorist website hoax I wrote about yesterday, has now posted his response, including a quasi-apology. [Link credit: Politech]