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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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…
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Lessig, DRM, and Palladium
As I noted yesterday, Lessig’s Red Herring piece on Palladium has generated a lot of interesting talk among techno-law-bloggers. (See e.g. Copyfight, Ernie the Attorney, Lessig, and Frank Field.) This…
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Lessig on Microsoft and DRM
Larry Lessig has a provocative piece in Red Herring on Microsoft’s plans regarding DRM and Palladium. Lessig says that Palladium is not as bad as some people say, and that…
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China Stops Blocking Google
AP reports that China is no longer blocking Google. (Ben Edelman’s site at Harvard confirms this.)
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Reed: LaGrande Another 432?
David Reed has an interesting perspective on Intel’s LaGrande proposal. Reed likens LaGrande to the Intel 432 processor. Few non-techies have heard of the 432, but in the processor-design community…
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Intel to Offer "Security" Features in Future Microprocessors
Intel is reportedly planning to include security technologies, code-named “LaGrande,” in a future processor chip. I haven’t seen much in the way of technical detail. The article referenced above says:…
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Classic Security Paper, with New Commentary
If you’re interested in computer security, check out the new paper by Paul Karger and Roger Schell. Thirty years ago, Karger and Schell wrote a classic paper reviewing the security…
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Economist Article
The article on me and my pro-tinkering work, from the June 20th issue of the Economist, is now available on line.