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Annual report of FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee 24 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
For the past year, I’ve been serving on the FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee (OIAC), and chairing its mobile broadband working group. The OIAC just completed its first annual report (available h...
NSA, the FISA Court, and Risks of Tech Summaries 22 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Yesterday the U.S. government released a previously-secret 2011 opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), finding certain NSA surveillance and analysis activities to be illegal. T...
Groklaw Shuts Down, Citing NSA Eavesdropping 21 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
The legendary technology law blog Groklaw is shutting down. Groklaw’s founder and operator, Pamela “PJ” Jones, wrote that in light of current eavesdropping, email is no longer secure. She went on to s...
Ethical dilemmas faced by software engineers: A request for real-world examples 19 Aug 2013 | 10:09 pm
Software developers create the architectures that govern our online and often our offline lives — from software-controlled cars and medical systems to digital content consumption and behavioral advert...
Educating Leaders who Tackle the Challenges of their Time; Lessons from the Past: Book Review: First Class, The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Blac... 11 Aug 2013 | 01:27 am
One of last year’s CITP lectures that is still fresh in my mind is Brad Smith’s talk on “Immigration, Education, and the Future of Computer Science in America.” In his presentation on developing a pro...
British Court Blocks Publication of Car Security Paper 8 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
Recently a British court ordered researchers to withdraw a paper, “Dismantling Megamos Security: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser” from next week’s USENIX Security Symposium. This is a blo...
Google Glass vuln in QR codes and ballot marking applications 19 Jul 2013 | 09:32 pm
Reading recently about a vulnerability in Google Glass that can be exploited if a victim takes a picture of a malicious QR code made me think about one of the current trends in absentee balloting. A n...
MIT asks to intervene in Swartz FOIA suit 19 Jul 2013 | 06:07 pm
Yesterday MIT filed papers asking to intervene in journalist Kevin Poulsen’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the Secret Service’s records of the agency’s investigation of Aaron Swart...
Take Over My Dream Job: Associate Director at CITP 9 Jul 2013 | 06:42 pm
Nearly four years ago, I joined the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton as Associate Director. The CITP community is a fantastic collection of smart and funny people who work passion...
Regulating Bitcoin 28 Jun 2013 | 07:41 pm
On Tuesday the State of California sent a letter to the Bitcoin Foundation, saying that the Foundation might be in violation of California’s law against running an unregistered money transmission busi...
