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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Last week the Associated Press announced it would be developing some kind of online news registry to control use of news content. From AP’s press release: The registry will employ…
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What Economic Forces Drive Cloud Computing?
You know a technology trend is all-pervasive when you see New York Times op-eds about it — and this week saw the first Times op-ed about cloud computing, by Jonathan…
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Lessons from Amazon's 1984 Moment
Amazon got some well-deserved criticism for yanking copies of Orwell’s 1984 from customers’ Kindles last week. Let me spare you the copycat criticism of Amazon — and the obvious 1984-themed…
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A Freedom-of-Speech-based Approach To Limiting Filesharing – Part III: Smoke, smoke!
Over the past two days we have seen that filesharing is vulnerable to spamming, and that as a defense, the filesharers have used the IP block list to exclude the…
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A Freedom-of-Speech-based Approach To Limiting Filesharing – Part II: The Block List
On Wednesday we discussed the open structure of filesharing and its resulting vulnerability to spam. While there are some similarities between e-mail and gnutella spam, the spoof files have no…
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A Freedom-of-Speech Approach To Limiting Filesharing – Part I: Filesharing and Spam
[Today we kick off a series of three guest posts by Mitch Golden. Mitch was a professor of physics when, in 1995, he was bitten by the Internet bug and…
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If You're Going to Track Me, Please Use Cookies
Web cookies have a bad name. People often complain — with good reason — about sites using cookies to track them. Today I want to say a few words in…
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Thoughtcrime Experiments
Cosmic rays can flip bits in memory cells or processor datapaths. Once upon a time, Sudhakar and I asked the question, “can an attacker exploit rare and random bit-flips to…
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Assorted targeted spam
You can run, but you can’t hide. Here are a few of the latest things I’ve seen, in no particular order. On a PHPBB-style chat board which I sometimes frequent,…
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CITP Announces 2009-10 Visitors
Today, I’m pleased to announce CITP’s visitors for the upcoming academic year. Deven R. Desai, Visiting Fellow: Deven is an Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of…