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[Today we welcome my Princeton Computer Science colleague Mike Freedman. Mike's research areas include computer systems, network software, and security. He writes a technical blog about these topics at Princeton S* Network Systems -- required reading for serious systems geeks like me. -- Ed ...
Online
BitTorrent
Stanford Law School held a panel Thursday on " Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics ". I happened to be in town so I dropped by and heard an interesting discussion.
Here's the official announcement:
Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. ...
Gadgets
Robots
Let's continue our discussion about copyright enforcement against online infringers. I wrote last time about how targeted enforcement can deter many possible violators even if the enforcer can only punish a few violators. Clever targeting of enforcement can destroy the safety-in-numbers ...
Other
One reason the record industry's strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual infringer will know that he is very unlikely to be sued, and deterrence will fail. ...
Online
Yesterday, New York's state Attorney General filed what could turn out to be a major antitrust suit against Intel. The suit accuses Intel of taking illegal steps to exclude a competitor, AMD, from the market.
All we have so far is the NYAG's complaint , which tells one side of the case. ...
Hardware
Intel
AMD
Microsoft
It's Election Day in New Jersey. As usual, I visited several polling places in Princeton over the last few days, looking for unguarded voting machines. It's been well demonstrated that a bad actor who can get physical access to a New Jersey voting machine can modify its behavior to steal ...
Hardware
Princeton
Sequoia Voting Systems, one of the major e-voting companies, announced Tuesday that it will publish all of the source code for its forthcoming Frontier product. This is great news--an important step toward the kind of transparency that is necessary to make today's voting systems trustworthy.
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Other
Sunday's New York Times had an article, Studios' Quest for Life After DVDs . To nobody's surprise, consumers want to have convenient access to "their" media, wherever they happen to be, without all the annoying restrictions that come into play when you add DRM to the picture. To many people's ...
Home Theater
DRM
In a recent interview prominent antivirus developer Eugene Kaspersky decried the role of anonymity in cybercrime. This is not a new claim – it is touched on in the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency Report and Cybersecurity Act of 2009 , among others – but it misses the mark. ...
