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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As promised, the official Freedom to Tinker predictions for 2011. These predictions are the result of discussions that included myself, Joe Hall, Steve Schultze, Wendy Seltzer, Dan Wallach, and Harlan…
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2010 Predictions Scorecard
We’re running a little behind this year, but as we do every year, we’ll review the predictions we made for 2010. Below you’ll find our predictions from 2010 in italics,…
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Seals on NJ voting machines, 2004-2008
I have just released a new paper entitled “Security seals on voting machines: a case study” and here I’ll explain how I came to write it. Like many computer scientists,…
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If Wikileaks Scraped P2P Networks for "Leaks," Did it Break Federal Criminal Law?
On Bloomberg.com today, Michael Riley reports that some of the documents hosted at Wikileaks may not be “leaks” at all, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.…
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Web Browser Security User Interfaces: Hard to Get Right and Increasingly Inconsistent
A great deal of online commerce, speech, and socializing supposedly happens over encrypted protocols. When using these protocols, users supposedly know what remote web site they are communicating with, and…
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Some Technical Clarifications About Do Not Track
When I last wrote here about Do Not Track in August, there were just a few rumblings about the possibility of a Do Not Track mechanism for online privacy. Fast…
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CITP Visitors Application Deadline Extended to Feb 1st
The deadline for applications to CITP’s Visitors Program has been extended to February 1st. If you or someone you know is interested but has questions, feel free to contact me…
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RIP Bill Zeller
All of us here at CITP were saddened by the death of Bill Zeller, our respected and much-loved colleague. Bill was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science here at Princeton,…
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Monitoring all the electrical and hydraulic appliances in your house
Dan Wallach recently wrote about his smart electric meter, which keeps track of the second-by-second current draw of his whole house. But what he might like to know is, exactly…
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Burn Notice, season 4, and the abuse of the MacGuffin
One of my favorite TV shows is Burn Notice. It’s something of a spy show, with a certain amount of gadgets but generally no James Bond-esque Q to supply equipment…