Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity: Use this link to download a free pdf version of the book, under a Creative Commons license. The book is also available in nine other formats, to date, via this link. Reviews of the book… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2004
GPO to Adopt Document Encrytion Technology
GPO signs on to using PKI: “The Government Printing Office by mid-summer will authenticate government documents using a public-key infrastructure and digital signatures. Judy Russell, the GPOs superintendent of documents and managing director of information dissemination, yesterday said the office will apply the technology to all documents agencies submit to www.gpoaccess.gov.” Continue Reading
Google Adds New Alerts and Personalized Web Search
Google launched a subtle redesign of their site this Sunday. Result screens now use predominantly blue and green colors, the tabs are gone, the shopping site Froogle has a more prominent position on the main page, and additional services are accessible through clicking More. Other enhancements include the following: “Google Web Alerts (Beta) are sent… Continue Reading
Resources from Yale Conference on Cybercrime
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project hosted the CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement Conference March 26-28. From the conference, links to selected presentations are as follows: Computer Crimes and Intermediary Liability: The Case for Protecting Vulnerability Publications The Digital Crime Scene: A Software Prospective The Legal Construction of Identity Theft Designing Accountable Online Policing Continue Reading
Clarke Calls for Release of All Classified Testimony
Amidst allegations by Republicans that the testimony of former National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, to the 9/11 Commission, contradicts previous classified testimony provided by him to the House and Senate Intelligence committees in July 2002, Clarke called for the release of all his classified testimony from that date. For context and perspective, this article… Continue Reading
New Legislation to Combat File Sharing
Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate on March 25, 2004) [S. 2237] Leahy-Hatch Bill Takes Aim At Copyright Infringement Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P Remarks by bill co-sponsor Sen. Hatch. Continue Reading
Rice Continues to Refuse Public Testimony
According to Reuters, National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice continues to refuse to testify in public before the 9/11 Commission despite repeated requests by the panel for such testimony, which she has already provided in private. Rice Rejects Calls for Public Testimony: From her 60 Minutes interview, Sunday, March 28: “Nothing would be better, from… Continue Reading
Consolidated Terror Watch List One Year Past Deadline
March 24, 2004 – Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Joint Hearing: “Progress in Consolidating Terrorist Watchlists — the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC).” [Link] Fact Sheet, The Terrorist Screening Center Dec. 4 target set for terrorist list For reference, see U.S. Still Lacks Consolidated… Continue Reading
Richard Clarke’s Testimony to 9/11 Commission
From March 24, the text (in pdf) of former National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, National Security Council, Richard Clarke’s testimony before the eighth public hearing held by the 9/11 Commission, as well as the CNN transcript of his testimony. Continue Reading
Library of Congress to Undertake Major Update of Global Legal Information Network
From the AALL press release: “The Law Library of Congress has awarded a five-year contract to develop and implement major enhancements to the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). The improvements are necessary to respond to the challenges of globalization and an increasing demand for online legal research resources. Initial designs for the upgraded GLIN system… Continue Reading
Tools and Resources for Managing Digital Resources
The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian. Continue Reading
Instant Messages Used to Deliver Spam
When Instant Messages Come Bearing Malice. According to this article, there are over 160 million instant messaging (IM) accounts worldwide, and users are increasingly the target of spam, hackers and phishing. Continue Reading
