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The White House’s “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,” initially slated for release on Wednesday, has been delayed, the Washington Post reports. This comes on the heels of the removal of…
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ABC News Hires "Hackers" to Disrupt Police
ABC News reports on their own hiring of “hackers” to disrupt the Huntington Beach, CA police department. (Start reading at the “Testing the system” heading.) They tried to trick an…
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Ernest Miller on Lessig/DRM
Great new entry in the Lessig/DRM debate, from Ernest Miller at Lawmeme. This is starting to turn from a narrow debate about Lessig’s piece into a wider discussion of how…
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Low-Tech DRM
Today’s New York Times reports that Epic Records has taken a decidedly low-tech approach to DRM in pre-releasing two new albums to critics: … the CD’s [are] already inside Sony…
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Serious Linux Worm
New.com reports on a new worm infecting Linux/Apache servers. (A “worm” is a malicious standalone program that propagates on its own, without requiring any human action.) A new worm that…
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Network Centric DRM
Remember when I promised not to post anymore on Lessig’s DRM piece? I lied. I just have to respond to a comment from Lessig himself. He writes: … Felten is…
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Etzioni: Reply to Spammers
Oren Etzioni has an op-ed in today’s New York Times about spam. His proposal: Though spammers hope to lure us with their dubious propositions (“URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL”), they…
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"Network-Based" Copy Protection
One more comment on Lessig’s Red Herring piece, then I’ll move on to something else. Really I will. Lessig argues that one kind of DRM is less harmful than another.…
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Lessig/DRM/Palladium Summary, at Copyfight
Donna Wentworth offers a pithy summary of the commentary on Lessig’s DRM piece, over at Copyfight.
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Rebecca Mercuri on the Florida Voting Fiasco
Rebecca Mercuri writes, in the RISKS Forum: Well, Florida’s done it again. Tuesday’s Florida primary election marked its first large-scale roll-out of tens of thousands of brand-new voting machines that…