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Writing Law Like We Write Code
Writer's Block by thorinside on Flickr As I, and others, have remarked before: laws bear certain resemblances to computer code. A state’s constitution is like the operating system for that country. We...
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Real Cybersecurity Begins at Home
Loose Tweets Sink Fleets by Brian Lane Winfied on Flickr The Tech Liberation Front has a great article rejecting some of the thoughtless panic around the way that Google’s streetview cars have been...
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Twitter for Grown-Ups
Derek Powazek has some pretty good advice on how to use Twitter like a reasonable person. Gina Trapani likes to follow everyone important (to be polite), but only actually reads tweets from a scant 9%...
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Do Not Track means Do Not Track
I’ve been giving some thought to proposed “Do Not Track” legislation. The proposals, currently being considered by the FTC and the legislature, seek to protect user privacy by empowering us to tell...
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BitTorrent is ThoughtCrime
CC by blogpocket on flickr Use of BitTorrent is stigmatised, and poses potential administrative cost and liability risk for anyone who uses it. Since BitTorrent is the most effective ways to distribute...
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The Punk Test
Predicting the results of important technology, copyright and patent cases is almost impossible. Experts who are intimately familiar with the subject matter and precedents are only slightly better than...
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Hacktivism & Mistakes
I know that much ink has already been spilled over Aaron Swartz‘s indictment. If you haven’t read any of it, this New York Times article is a good start. Kevin Driscoll, posting on the Students for...
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