Cory Doctorow writing for boingboing calls an Intellectual Property Colloquium podcast featuring Ed Felten "fascinating listening that makes a good stab at unpicking the tech and the law of DRM." DRM is shorthand for "digital rights management," a term that broadly speaking refers to the deployment of technologies intended to control […]
The Center for Information Technology Policy is hosting what promises to be a provocative conference May 14-15 on the Future of News.
The conference features a distinguished roster of panelists who will be discussing the sweeping technologically-driven transformation of the news business. Of special interest is a panel on the new journalistic frontiers […]
Computerworld magazine has just named Dan Wallach, who began his pathbreaking work in security research when he was a graduate student at Princeton, one of its “40 under 40” — an elite group of young innovators and leaders in information technology who “are building careers on their own terms, giving back in a big […]
It’s hard to keep up with the computer security phenomenon known as Ed Felten. Tomorrow Felten will give a Capitol Hill briefing hosted by the Senate Science and Technology Caucus. He will be talking about botnets, those invisible robots that can stealthily turn the most innocent of PCs into malicious […]
Electronic voting machines are back in the news again, and not in a good way.
A front-page piece in yesterday’s Star-Ledger quotes Princeton’s Andrew Appel as being highly skeptical of the security of the Sequoia voting machines used widely in the state of New Jersey.
Last month Appel […]
Ed Felten, Alex Halderman, and Ari Feldman last fall proved that Diebold’s electronic election machines were susceptible to being infected with malicious, vote-altering software. In their now-famous video, they also demonstrated that the lock to the machine’s memory card door was easily picked.
But why pick the lock when you […]
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