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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Rob Lemos at news.com reports on a new “greeting card” virus that protects its author by using a EULA (End User License Agreement): The FriendGreetings electronic greeting card has all…
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A Stroll Through the Logs
The website statistics program I use (webalizer) lets me see what search strings people are using when they find this site via the usual search engines. November’s report is amusing.…
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More Great Stuff From Seth Schoen
If you want to understand what the whole Palladium/LaGrande/”trusted computing” issue is about, you should read Seth Schoen’s recent writing. His analysis is insightful, technically sound, independent, and hype-free. For…
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Early Release of MS Decision Just a Blunder
Ted Bridis at AP confirms, based on an internal investigation by court staff, that the early release to the Web of Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s rulings in the Microsoft case was just…
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Garfinkel on Mitnick's Book
Simson Garfinkel has an interesting reaction to Kevin Mitnick’s recent book. Mitnick, “the most famous computer hacker of our time,” claims to have operated mainly by social engineering, that is,…
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I'm Back
London was fabulous, though Northwest Airlines did give us an extra “bonus” day at Gatwick airport on the return trip. Posting will resume later today, once I’ve crawled out from…
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No Posting Until Tuesday Morning
You won’t find anything new here until Tuesday morning. I’ll be in London, secure beneath the watchful eyes.
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Microsoft Ruling Released Early
Update (8:42 PM): The item below, which I am leaving here only to maintain a complete record, was INCORRECT. It was based on an inaccurate report from a reader, which…
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Hiatus for Fritz's Hit List
As of today, Fritz’s Hit List is going on hiatus. It’s not that I have run out of examples for the list. I have many good ones left, and a…
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SpamCop Blacklists Declan, Again
Declan McCullagh reports that his Politech server has been blacklisted by SpamCop – for the third time. Longtime readers may recall this site being wrongly blacklisted by SpamCop in its…