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Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacyI agree with ScaliaI've been saying for years now how the idea of "privacy" through anonymity on the Internet is incredibly ignorant. It's like saying that anytime I leave my house I can put on a costume and take off my car's license...

Tags: NOW IT, Scalia, schooling, online privacy

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy

Justice Antonin Scalia doesn't think there's much need for Internet privacy rules. Speaking at the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, he exclaimed: "Every single datum about my life is private? That's silly." At Fordham University Law...

Tags: Online Privacy, Fordham University, Privacy, Dossier, Conference, Scalia, Joel Reidenberg, Identity Theft, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Free speech wins privacy tug of war; Law students school Scalia

Free speech wins privacy tug of war; Law students school ScaliaPoor judgement is .....posting pictures of your extramarital fling in the internet. Looking up or researching available information IS NOT poor judgement.Stealing private information not willingly given is not only poor judgment, but also a crime.Scalia is still rightThe...

Tags: Poor Judgement, Scalia, poor judgment, privacy, Justice Scalia

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

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News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-19

News to know: Windows 7; RIM; Botnet hijack; Amazon

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: What to expect from Windows 7. Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: So many Microsoft codenames, so little time... The...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Free speech wins privacy tug of war; Law students school Scalia

As a newspaper journalist, I took pride in my abilities to dig through public records, sniff around court documents, dissect police reports and, yeah, even tap a handful of unconventional sources for the really-hard-to-find details about someone - all under the protections of the U.S. Constitution. So,...

Tags: Privacy, Reidenberg, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...

Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Feds seek cell positioning data without warrants

Feds seek cell positioning data without warrantsChalk it up as one morereason I refuse to own a cell phone. While I am a law abiding citizen, I see just how easy it is for something like this to get out of hand and to be abused.As for gun control... use...

Tags: warrant, phone

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case

Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking caseWell, does it keep the people who's e-mails were soldfrom suing both the seller and the buyer, not just the TorrentSpy company? As far as moral high ground, the MPAA and the RIAA have never really sat up there, always look lower, much...

Tags: Government, SECURITY, privacy, TorrentSpy, GOP, MPAA, RIAA, hacking

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other softwareGentlemen, start your engines.I appreciated this part of the discussion:In his "Comments on GPLv3" essay, open source attorney Lawrence Rosen writes that he believes this clause can even be used to combine GPL licensed code "modules" with code from other licenses...

Tags: software, GPLv3, proprietary code

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Is StillSecure open source?

Once more we have a company playing games with the definition of open source, forcing potential users to look under the hood, read the license agreement carefully, and risk a "gotcha" if they unknowingly violate its terms. (Say hello to my leetle frahnd. From the Boston Herald.)This time its StillSecure,...

Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Security, marketing, management, Legal, General, Applications

Blog posts 2007-04-04

SHA-1 Perspective, minus two

George Ou makes two very reasonable paragraphs worth of analysis of the cracking of the SHA-1 hash algorithm used by many digital signature products. Hes absolutely correct that "the finding of a hash collision" [ed: a method of finding a shortcut that identifies the key used to encrypt a document]...

Tags: Business &, Technology, digital signature, SHA-1

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspective

Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspectiveMore or less?"The science of finger print forensics or even genetic DNA matching is still far reliable than SHA-1 hashing."Are fingerprints and DNA more or less reliable than SHA-1?I suppose it depends on how the crack works.If someone can download a binary file, tamper...

Tags: SHA-1

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspective

SHA-1 is one of the most prevalent forms of a secure hash algorithm used in the legal and security industry. Now that Professor Xiaoyun Wang and her associates in Tsinghua University and Shandong University of Technology have officially cracked the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, the fallout will begin. This...

Tags: Security, News, Technology policy, SHA-1

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drives

Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drivesA very trusting and naive man......the dissenting judge:"The newspapers' objection instead related to information on the computers that is not being sought by the commonwealth. The newspapers professed a fear that the commonwealth would abuse the subpoena and seek to access other information that...

Tags: Vertical industries, Web browsers, government, hard drive, Divine Right

Discussion threads 2006-10-13

Thinking about whistleblowing? Read this.

The Supreme Court yesterday handed down a decision that impacts all government employees, so it's worth taking note of here, although the case has no direct IT angle. With Justice Kennedy siding with the conservative branch of Robert, Scalia, Thomas and Alito, the Supreme Court strongly narrowed the rights of...

Tags: Justice

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Once again, Valley, DC eyes on patent reform

Is the current patent system, um, patently absurd? It all depends on how you look at it. To the degree that patent trolls are buying up patents - often improperly granted by an overwhelmed Patent Office - and essentially blackmailing big companies ("License our technology or we will...

Tags: Seth P. Waxman, patent, MercExchange, eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Patent reform unlikely to get help from Supremes

If the software and online industry was hoping for a weakening of the courts' pattern of issuing permanent injunctions for claims of patent violations, those hopes were weakened yesterday, as Supreme Court Justices hinted during oral arguments in the Ebay case that they will look harshly on attempts to weaken...

Tags: eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2006-03-29

FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explained

FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explainedI think its an anti-Goatse lawI think this is another anti-porn law, look at the 'and' at the end of A.i. they struck out. It's no longer necessary to *send* an offensive or annoying communication, or image, it's enough to simply make, create or solicit...

Tags: U.S. Congress, OHIO ELECTIONS COMM'N, Goatse, First Amendment, McIntyre

Discussion threads 2006-01-11

Chief justice nominee carries slim record on tech

Chief justice nominee carries slim record on techOh boy[i]" By now, it's well known that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts upheld the arrest of a girl accused of snacking on a lone french fry inside a D.C. subway station, but his stance on technology matters remains murky."[/i]I'm much more interested...

Tags: John Roberts

Discussion threads 2005-09-06