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| Jun 8, 2023 | Many Of The States Endlessly Freaking Out About TikTok Still Have State Websites That Funnel Sensitive Data To TikTok | By now we’ve noted several times how the folks most vocally calling for a nationwide TikTok ban are putting on a dumb performance designed to distract you from our lack of competent internet privacy laws and our complete unwillingness to re... |
| Apr 17, 2023 | World to AI: Slow down you crazy child | NewsOpinion
Nikita Puri · 18 Apr 2023 · 3 min readWorld to AI: Slow down you crazy child
Say you want to ban or slow down X – a product of your choice.
You know the one thing that’ll absolutely guarantee that X thrives and its tribe grows? ... |
| Sep 9, 2021 |
Mark Karpeles | Born in 1985, Mark Kerpeles, also known by his online alias ‘MagicalTux,’ is an American programmer and the former CEO of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Based in Tokyo, Japan, Kerpeles is now the Chief Technology Officer at Trist... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Mt. Gox | Launched in 2010 Mt. Gox was the world’s largest bitcoin exchange until its demise in 2014.
By 2013, the Japan-based exchange was handling 70 percent of all bitcoin trades worldwide, but collapsed in 2014 after it was revealed that it had l... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | DuckDuckGo Email Service Helps Fight Back Against Tracking | Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has released an email protection service to fight email tracking.
Currently in beta, the service provides users with a free @duck.com address. Emails to it are forwarded to the user’s regular address... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | PayPal and Venmo Are Letting SIM Swappers Hijack Accounts | Several major apps and websites, such as Paypal and Venmo have a flaw that lets hackers easily take over users’ accounts once they have taken control of the victim’s phone number.
Earlier this year, researchers at Princeton University found... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Motive doesn't matter: The three types of insider threats | In information security, outside threats can get the lion's share of attention. Insider threats to data security, though, can be more dangerous and harder to detect because they are strengthened by enhanced knowledge and/or access.
Not only... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | The DOJ Is Conflating The Content Moderation Debate With The Encryption Debate: Don't Let Them | As we’ve detailed a lot over the last week, the DOJ has decided that after years of failing to get backdoors mandated by warning about the “terrorism” bogeyman, it’s decided to pick up the FOSTA playbook, and instead start focusing on child... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | The DOJ Is Conflating The Content Moderation Debate With The Encryption Debate: Don't Let Them | As we've detailed a lot over the last week, the DOJ has decided that after years of failing to get backdoors mandated by warning about the "terrorism" bogeyman, it's decided to pick up the FOSTA playbook, and instead start focusin... |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Google defends tracking cookies—some experts aren’t buying it | Enlarge
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Google's Chrome team is feeling pressure from competitors over ad tracking. Apple has long offered i... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Alguns sites estão vazando seus dados quando você faz login com o Facebook | Alguns sites permitem fazer login com sua conta do Facebook, em vez de exigir um cadastro separado. Isso nem sempre é uma boa ideia: recentemente, o Tinder teve problemas depois que a rede social fez mudanças na API.
Desta vez, pesquisadore... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Do you need a blockchain? | Christoffer O. Hernæs Contributor
Christoffer O. Hernæs is chief digital officer of Sbanken, Norway's first digital-only bank and leading challenger bank.
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| Apr 18, 2018 | Login With Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers | Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it’s investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed by third-party JavaScript trackers embedded on websites using Login With Facebook. The exploit lets these tracke... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Court Says PACER System Is Illegally Using Fees | Nearly two years ago, we wrote about an important lawsuit concerning PACER — the electronic records system of the federal court system in the US. As we’ve pointed out many, many times over the years, the whole PACER system is a complete sca... |
| Jan 2, 2018 | Scripts em sites usam o gerenciador de senhas do navegador para direcionar anúncios | Digitar senhas é uma tarefa chata. É por isso que muita gente usa de bom grado os gerenciadores de senhas existentes nos principais navegadores. Se é o seu caso, muita atenção: pesquisadores do Centro de Políticas de Tecnologia da Informaçã... |
| 2018 | Browser-based password managers are being exploited by advertisers | I don’t know what I’d do without my trusted password manager. Out there, nobody is safe, so that’s why I try to secure each account with individual, hard-to-crack passwords. And I couldn’t possibly remember them all without a password manag... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | The World’s Most Popular WebSites Are Recording Everything You Do | For most internet users, the notion that websites track your browsing habits won’t come as much of a surprise. Most websites that offer a service, particularly news and shopping sites, install cookies onto your browser with every visit to h... |
| Nov 22, 2017 | Centenas de sites acompanham sua navegação com mais detalhes do que você imagina | Existem diversas ferramentas para monitorar seu comportamento na web, geralmente com o objetivo de exibir anúncios direcionados para você. No entanto, centenas de sites — incluindo Lenovo, Intel e Opera — vão um passo além.
Um estudo descob... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Privacy: Use of session replay scripts means many websites essentially have built in keyloggers | The idea that what you do online is not a secret is something that we have all -- just about -- come to terms with. That said, most people still expect a modicum of privacy, and they certainly don’t expect literally every keystroke they typ... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | More than 400 of the popular websites track each click of users visiting their site | Most of us who have spent enough time on the internet already know that several websites record visits of users including the log of pages they have visited. Few sites with high-traffic even use a software that records every time you click ... |
| Nov 20, 2017 | No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move | Enlarge
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| Nov 16, 2017 | Session replay is a major threat to privacy on the web | An increasing number of websites use scripts that record many aspects of user behaviour through browsers, creating a substantial privacy threat, researchers have found.
Researchers Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar and Arvind Narayanan studied ... |
| Aug 14, 2017 | Florida City Ignores All Legal Precedent As It Attempts To Silence & Identify Mild Critic | Florida. It’s always Florida. Last time it was the city of Tamarac, Florida making bogus trademark claims to try to silence a blogger. And this time, it’s the city of Coral Gables (basically a part of Miami). Apparently the powers that be i... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | New 'Perceptual' Ad Blocking Tech Doesn't Win The Ad Blocking War, But It May Put Advertisers On Their Heels… Permanently | We’ve long documented how there’s a growing array of websites that seem intent on shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to “defeating” ad blocking. Quite often that includes punishing customers for a website’s own misdeeds, or using... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | 'Just Use A VPN' Isn't A Real Solution To The GOP's Decision To Kill Broadband Privacy Protections | Not too surprisingly, VPN providers say they’re seeing an interest spike in the wake of lawmakers’ full frontal assault on consumer broadband privacy protections. The attack on the rules comes as the broadband industry is suffering from an ... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections Are Dead | Last week, the Senate voted 50-48 along party lines to kill consumer broadband privacy protections. That vote then continued today in the House, where GOP lawmakers finished the job, apparently happy to advertise how ISP campaign contributi... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | Congress Just Voted To Kill Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections | Despite a last-ditch effort by the EFF and other consumer and privacy groups, Congress today voted to dismantle privacy protections for broadband subscribers in a 50-48 vote. The rules, passed last October by the FCC, simply required that I... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | ISPs Get Right To Work Pushing For Elimination Of New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules | So we’ve noted that killing net neutrality isn’t the only goal for large ISPs in the new year. Trump’s top telecom advisors have all made it abundantly clear they’d like to defang and defund the FCC as a consumer watchdog entirely, and roll... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | Internet Providers Could Be The Answer To Better IoT Security | A recent group of researchers in Virginia hacked into a driverless car to demonstrate how easily it can be accomplished. This study was actually commissioned by several governmental groups that are deeply concerned about the explosion of Io... |
| Nov 13, 2016 | Bitcoin's Security Model: A Deep Dive | When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding (and definition) of the security model that they provide for the historical data in the ledger. While each... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | What it takes to secure the elections | Ben Dickson Contributor
Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks.
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Monetizing computing resources on the blockchain
Unlocking the potential of eye tracking technology
While virtually ever... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | Secure the Vote Today | As Dan Wallach (a Computer Science professor at Rice and a world-recognized expert on voting systems) eloquently put it, election security is a national security issue. The computer security field has intensely studied the problem of conduc... |
| Jul 25, 2016 | The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters | Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems. A particularly vivid and realistic one, near-future fiction published ... |
| Apr 15, 2016 | Report Exposes Flaws In Link Shorteners That Reveal Sensitive Info About Users And Track Their Offline Movements | URL shorteners: not just for malware/spam delivery anymore! |
| Apr 14, 2016 | Guess what? URL shorteners short-circuit cloud security | Google addresses found in short URLs associated with a single user in Austin, Texas, courtesy of Google's old 5-character short URL tokens.
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| Mar 10, 2016 | Cothority to Apple: Let’s make secret backdoors impossible | Tim Ellis reader comments 58 with 42 posters participating
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| Mar 8, 2016 | Broadband Industry 'Studies' Claim Users Don't Need Privacy Protections Because ISPs Are Just Harmless, Innovative Sweethearts | With few protections in play, most of the last decade broadband ISPs have collected any and every shred of data about their customers’ online behavior. It began with clickstream data, which ISPs sold to third parties, then either refused to... |
| Feb 24, 2016 | FBI vs Apple: giving up security and privacy could hurt us all | |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Nest Thermostat Goes From 'Internet Of Things' Darling To Cautionary Tale | Back when the Nest thermostat was announced in 2011, it was met with waves of gushing adoration from an utterly uncritical technology press. Much of that gushing was certainly warranted; Nest was founded by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, both... |
| Jan 20, 2016 | Nest Thermostat Leaked Zip Codes Over the Internet (Updated) | Nest may be the poster child for the so-called Internet of Things, but as it turns out, even one of the most popular connected devices—owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, no less—isn't free from the sorts of security flaws plaguing o... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | White House 'Responds' To Petition For Strong Encryption… By Asking For More Info From A Misspelled Ed Felten | Earlier this year, the EFF’s Rainey Reitman set up the SaveCrypto.org petition, which tied directly into the White House’s We the People… petition site. The petition got the necessary 100,000 signatures to demand a response (though the Whit... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Tor Devs Say They've Learned Lessons From Carnegie Mellon Attack, But Worries Remain That They're Outgunned And Outmanned | Early last year, Tor suffered a massive attack that compromised the anonymity of its users over a period of at least six months. Soon after, the FBI launched Operation Onymous, which dismantled yet another round of darknet markets and left ... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Researchers claim to have solved NSA crypto-breaking mystery | Researchers believe they have worked out how the United States National Security Agency (NSA) is able to break digital encryption used on the internet and intercept potentially trillions of connections.
A team of computer scientists from US... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | If The NSA's Not Complaining About Encryption, It's Likely Because It Has Already Found A Way In | The NSA hasn’t said much (well… compared to the FBI) over the past several months about the default phone encryption offered by Google and Apple. This lack of public outcry has to do with the NSA’s capabilities, rather than a sudden interes... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connections | BalticServers.com reader comments 99 with 65 posters participating
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| Oct 15, 2015 | Can NSA Crack Public Key Encryption? | Much ink has been expended over the past few months over the Administration's floated idea of requiring encryption back doors in new technology implementions -- an idea that, for now, the Administration has put to rest. But the whole issue ... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | The NSA and Weak-DH | The authors of the weak Diffie-Hellman work are almost certainly correct that the technique they describe is used by the NSA, in bulk, to perform a massive amount of decryption on Internet traffic. This is perhaps the biggest technical reve... |
| Aug 16, 2015 | An (Important) Disproof Of The One-Time Pad | In a recent TechCrunch article I was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I was roundly criticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was how appropriate the term “unicorn” was. The perfect s... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | How Section 1201 Of The Copyright Statute Threatens Innovation | It would take many, many blog posts to fully articulate all the ways that modern copyright law threatens innovation. But one notable way is through Section 1201 of the copyright statute. |
| May 23, 2015 | The Bitcoin Blocksize Blackjack Mining Blues | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 17, 2015 | US electronic voting machines incredibly easy to hack | Electronic voting machines used for US elections between 2002 and 2014 would have been extremely easy to hack, according to reports.
The AVS WinVote machines were used during three presidential campaigns in the state of Virginia and would r... |
| Apr 17, 2015 | If Virginia Elections Weren't Hacked, It's Only Because No One Tried | It’s actually been a pretty long time since we last wrote about electronic voting machines and how insecure they are. Back in the 2005 to 2010 time frame, it was a regular topic of discussion around here, but there really hasn’t been that m... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away | Enlarge
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| Mar 23, 2015 | Critical flaw found in NSW iVote system | NSW's online voting system iVote has been discovered to contain a critical flaw just days before the state's citizens head to the polls for the 2015 election.
Two university researchers over the weekend revealed that the system's voting ser... |
| Mar 3, 2015 | “FREAK” Security Flaw Discovered Lurking In Many Computers For Decades, Apple Promises Fix Next Week | Ugh — another week, another nasty widespread security bug to worry about. The twist this time: this one has apparently been around since the 90s.
Dubbed “FREAK” by the researchers who discovered it, the exploit allowed researchers (and pote... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | EFF, Others Launch New Free Security Certificate Authority To 'Dramatically Increase Encrypted Internet Traffic' | The EFF and Mozilla along with some others, have teamed up to announce “Let’s Encrypt” which is a new, free, certificate authority that is hoping to dramatically increase encrypted internet traffic when it launches next summer. The effort i... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Google Apparently Trying To Make Encrypted Email Easier | About six months before Ed Snowden leaked his documents, we had written a post about why Google should encrypt our email, based on a bit of back-and-forth between Julian Sanchez, arguing why Google should encrypt all email, and Ed Felten, w... |
| Apr 22, 2014 | US Promoting Mesh Networks; Reporters Misleadingly Think They Somehow Stop Digital Spying | A recent article in the NY Times talked about how the US State Department is behind a project to build up mesh networks that can be used in countries with authoritarian governments, helping citizens of those places access an internet that i... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Task Force Report's Langauge Hints At Backdoors In Software | After looking over the White House intelligence task force’s proposals to reform the way the US government does surveillance, we pointed out one oddity that hinted that the NSA may have been engaged in financial manipulation. Others have be... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | How Google Should Respond To Revelation That NSA Uses Its Cookies To Track And Exploit | The latest Washington Post story from the Snowden leaks highlights how the NSA was able to effectively piggyback on Google’s ad-tracking cookies to track someone’s online activities and to “enable remote exploitation” (the details of that e... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Lavabit Case Shows Why We Need Tech Literate Judges | While there’s plenty of attention being paid to Lavabit’s temporary re-opening for the sake of letting people export their accounts, a much more interesting issue is the recent development in the legal case. Lavabit has filed its latest bri... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Linus Torvalds Admits He Was Approached By US Government To Insert Backdoor Into Linux — Or Does He? | At the LinuxCon meeting in New Orleans, Linus Torvalds was asked if he had ever been approached by the US government to insert a backdoor into the Linux kernel. |
| May 1, 2013 | Craigslist's Abuse Of Copyright And The CFAA To Attack Websites That Make Craigslist Better Is A Disgrace | Craigslist and Craig Newmark, specifically, have been very involved in being good corporate citizens on the internet. Craig was one of the key players in stopping SOPA, and has been involved in a number of other key internet activism campai... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | How Washington DC Went From Locking Up Laws To Releasing Them In The Public Domain Within Days | In past years we’ve had stories about both Oregon and California claiming copyright over their own laws, which is ridiculous. If copyright is supposed to be about the incentives for creative expression, then it should have nothing to do wit... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Providing Electronic Access To Public Records Is 'Expensive' And Other Government Excuses For PACER Fees | Steve Schultze at Freedom to Tinker wants to know why the general public is still being asked to pay for access to public records. Since these records are generated using tax dollars, a person would reasonably expect they would be free to a... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | Why Google Should Encrypt Our Email | Julian Sanchez has put forth an interesting and compelling proposal: if Google really wanted to take a stand in favor of user privacy, it should encrypt all our emails. |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Fixing Copyright: Is Copyright A Part Of Free Market Capitalism? | Continuing our series of posts concerning the Republican Study Committee report on the problems of the copyright system and how to fix them (which it quickly retracted under industry pressure), today we’re going to explore the second “myth”... |
| Nov 5, 2012 | New Jersey To Let 'Displaced' Voters Use Electronic Voting… If They Give Up Secrecy & Return A Hardcopy | Given the still ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy in the northeast, New Jersey has decided to deal with potential problems with Tuesday’s election by declaring that “displaced” voters can qualify to submit ballots the same way overseas ... |
| Apr 24, 2012 | Open Access And The Art Of Contract Hacking | Open Access continues to gain momentum, as more and more researchers seek to make their work freely available online. One way of doing that is by modifying the contract that academic publishers routinely send to potential authors, inserting... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Crypto shocker: four of every 1,000 public keys provide no security (updated) | Keys that share one prime factor are vulnerable to cracking by anyone. Keys that share both prime factors can be broken by the other holder. reader comments 68 with 45 posters participating, including story author
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| May 18, 2011 | Android vulnerability reflects need for more timely updates | reader comments 89 with 59 posters participating
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Rice University professor Dan Wallach wrote a blog post in February that discussed the threat that network eavesdropping po... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Dear Google: Stand Up For Fair Use In The Google Book Fight | Now that a judge has rejected the “settlement” between Google and the Authors Guild, many people are asking what will happen next. There may be appeals or alternative settlements proposed, but given my previous statements on the settlement,... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Will $25 Million In Government Money Make The Internet Truly Free (As In Freedom)? | Flickr’d
Good ol’ government, spreading freedom and whatnot. The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said yesterday that the government plans to invest a cool $25 million in order to help people get around Internet “thugs, hackers, an... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Operation in Our Sites Paperwork Shows Perils of Linking To Movies | The U.S. Government’s Operation in Our Sites 2 certainly caused shockwaves in November with the seizing of more than 80 domains which it claimed were involved in copyright infringing activities. Within that batch of domains were a handful l... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Suit Against Apple Alleges Privacy Breaches By Apps | Here’s a bit of a sticky situation: Apple is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that they are allowing apps and ad partners to identify specific users — a breach of Apple’s privacy policy and supposedly of privacy itself.
Apple’s privac... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | Surprising, But Good, News: FTC Appoints Ed Felten As CTO | This is a surprise, but really excellent news. Princeton Computer Science professor Ed Felten — one of the few folks out there who seems to really understand various tech issues having to do with e-voting, DRM, net neutrality, copyright and... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | Details Of How The DC Online Voting System Was Hacked: Small Vulnerability, Huge Consequences | We already wrote about the news that some folks at the University of Michigan had successfully hacked an online voting trial in DC, and suggested that Alex Halderman was the guy behind it (though, he was not identified in the press). Halder... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | Intel Confirms HDCP Master Key Is Out | We were among the many folks who wrote about the supposed leak of the HDCP master key this week, leading to an interesting discussion in the comments — including a comment from a big time DRM supporter (he’s even written a book about DRM) w... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Police Arrest Researcher Who Showed E-Voting Machines Are Not Secure | A few months back, a research report came out noting that e-voting machines in India were not secure. I had seen it at the time, but considering how many stories we’ve seen of e-voting machines with security problems, I let it pass and didn... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | OpenAppMkt: The Return of the iPhone Web App? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Few people remember it now, but for the first year after the launch of the Apple iPhone in June, 2007, there was no App Store. The device came with a few built-in or “native” ... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | Court Refuses To Protect Whistleblower's Email Uncovered In Sham Lawsuit | Earlier this year, we wrote about a troubling lawsuit involving a whistleblower, and an attempt to access his email. I’ll repeat the EFF’s summary of the case: |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Is The iPad The Disneyland Of Computers? | It’s been interesting to watch the extreme arguments about the iPad fly by over the last few weeks. As I’ve said before, I think the device will sell quite well and make tons of money for Apple. I just don’t think it will “save media” the w... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Of Course Most Content Shared On BitTorrent Infringes; But That's Meaningless | I was going to ignore this, because based on what’s known there’s not much interesting or surprising, but people keep submitting the research done by a student of professor Ed Felten of a sample of some content available via BitTorrent (err... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | BitTorrent census: about 99% of files copyright infringing | Freedom to Tinker reader comments 84 with 69 posters participating
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| Dec 1, 2009 | Should There Be Punishment For Bogus 'Pre-Settlement' Letters? | We’ve recently seen efforts to ramp up the system of “pre-settlement” letters as a way to “profit” off of file sharing. The scheme works by having a company that either holds the copyrights to certain works or has merely licensed them for t... |
| Nov 29, 2009 | Anti-Piracy Outfits Demand Cash Without Proof | Good times lie ahead for the companies that gather information on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks. In the US, the MPAA and RIAA are negotiating with ISPs on how to deal with alleged copyright infringers, and in the UK citizens co... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Netflix $1 Million Award Shows The Value Of Collaboration… But Kicks Up New Privacy Questions | Back in July, we wrote about how the Netflix $1 million prize showed how much further research efforts could get by collaborating, rather than hoarding. Now that the official prize has been awarded, we’re hearing even more about that point:... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Netflix Prize 2: (Privacy) Apocalypse Now? | reader comments 40 with 33 posters participating
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Netflix yesterday passed out a $1 million check to the stats geeks of "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos," the team which... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Use RECAP To Bypass Court Document PACER Paywall | If the RIAA can’t stop music sharing, the U.S. government is going to have an even harder time trying to stop the sharing of federal court documents hidden behind a paywall. Those documents aren’t protected by copyright law.
The PACER servi... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | The 'Creative' Technology Behind The AP's News Registry | The Associated Press’ attempt to DRM the news is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but its claims for the news registry’s capabilities seem pretty misguided, once you examine the technology behind it (the “magic DRM beans”). Ed Felten du... |
| Jun 30, 2009 | News? Or A Violation Of Privacy? | Two separate stories crossed my desk recently, that both raise some interesting questions in today’s internet age. The first was concerned about whether or not a newspaper in South Carolina violated any laws in publishing emails between Sou... |
| May 14, 2009 | Why Not Apply A Three Strikes Rule To Everything? | Back when the entertainment industry first got serious about pushing its silly three strikes concept, we were among those who wondered if the entertainment industry would accept a reverse three strikes rule, meaning that if they send three ... |
| May 12, 2009 | Despite MN Supreme Court Ruling, Breathalyzer Manufacturer Refuses to Turn Over Source Code | Earlier this month, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that defendants accused of drunk driving have the right to inspect the source code of the breathalyzers used in their arrest. This is the right decision for a number of reasons – not onl... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | Should There Be PHOSITA Juries In Patent Trials? | One of the complaints we’ve had about the patent system and current patent law is that the law clearly says that patents should only be granted on things that are new and non-obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art (the so-call... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | E-Voting Firms Recognize That Open Source Software Exists… But Seem Confused About What It Means | We’ve never quite understood why e-voting software shouldn’t be required to be public information. For the sake of actually allowing an open and transparent voting system, it’s hard to understand how any governing body would allow proprieta... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Voting machine expert criticizes “clueless” industry report | reader comments 27 with 22 posters participating
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The Election Technology Council (ETC), a trade group comprised of the most prominent electronic voting machine vendors, has... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | Sleight Of Hand: If We Don't Call It DRM, We Can Pretend That DRM Is Gone | I was upset that I had to miss the FTC’s workshop on DRM earlier this week. I had been invited to speak at the event, but had already committed to speaking at the Leadership Music Digital Summit in Nashville, so had to decline. But, from th... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Forget watermarks; new technique “fingerprints” paper | reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating
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A security research team led by the well-known computer science professor Ed Felten has just finished a study into whether ... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | The Difference Between Outreach And Transparency | The buzzword in DC these days seems to be “transparency,” though it seems like not everyone agrees on the definition of the word. For example, earlier this year, we noted that the press seems to think that transparency means access, even if... |