http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-05-24T20:33:54-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/24/mere_presence_of_encryption_on_pc_relevant_to_criminal_acts.php C|Net News reports that the Minnesota State Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling in which the presence of an encryption program on a computer was relevant to a criminal child sex abuse case (Minnesota Court Takes Dim View of... 5737@http://importance.corante.com/ Security 2005-05-24T20:33:54-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/17/freedom_of_expression_thank_skywalker.php With all the violence in the world due to religious fervor, sometimes it is nice to remember that, here in the US, one can blaspheme all they want and we don't have riots in the street. We take it... 5669@http://importance.corante.com/ Freedom of Expression 2005-05-17T21:21:47-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/03/18/how_much_torture_before_execution_is_too_much_torture.php Prof. Eugene Volokh and I disagree on occasion, but I generally admire his thinking and many of his views. However, I must really question a recent post of his on the Volokh Conspiracy endorsing torture before execution for serial killers... 5520@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2005-03-18T16:08:25-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/08/27/confusing_the_nofly_list.php Seth Finkelstein posts some clever thought about how terrorists might flummox up the "no-fly" lists (Data corruption attack on terrorist no-fly list?): The idea is simple: Take a low-level operative, perhaps one who has outlived his usefulness. Send him on... 5387@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-08-27T16:25:17-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/07/05/defending_civil_liberties_shortly_after_911.php The New York Times runs an editorial by William Safire decrying lack of opposition to President Bush's abrogation of the rights of aliens and terrorism suspects shortly after 9/11 (Rights of Terror Suspects). He claims,[M]ost liberals — supposed advocates of... 5195@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-07-05T16:15:32-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/06/28/endtoend_must_die_so_that_national_security_may_live.php Prof. Susan Crawford has been breaking and following some monumentally important stories recently. Her latest regards one of my favorite federal agencies, the FCC, and the huge power grab it is considering exercising with regard to the internet. This is... 5177@http://importance.corante.com/ Telecomm 2004-06-28T06:44:42-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/06/22/the_constitution_according_to_bush.php Constitutional law professor Jack Balkin has been writing a series of posts on the incredibly broad interpretation of the president's constitutional war powers promulgated by the Bush Administration. The latest here: The Election and the Constitution. Any true republican has... 5156@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-06-22T15:13:34-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/06/21/froomkin_on_supreme_court_cases_to_watch.php If you care about civil liberties, go read Prof. Michael Froomkin's latest post in which he sort of summarizes important cases the Supreme Court will decide soon (Supreme Court To Decide Major Cases Soon). Be sure to read his posts... 5152@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-06-21T15:54:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/22/copyfight_the_remix.php Donna Wentworth has made her blog, Copyfight, a must-read since its beginning. That is why I am honored to join her and some most excellent colleagues in continuing Copyfight as a group blog. I will be posting along with Elizabeth... 5067@http://importance.corante.com/ News 2004-03-22T16:56:27-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/17/security_knownothingism.php I must admit it is very frustrating to read, frankly, ignorant security columns on the op-ed page of America's most prestigious newspaper, the New York Times (reg. req.). Columnist Nicholas Kristof is the culprit this time, with a couple of... 5059@http://importance.corante.com/ Privacy 2004-03-17T07:43:12-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/15/a_race_the_fbi_cant_win_the_increasingly_asymmetric_costs_of_wiretap_surveillance_vs_wiretap_avoidance.php LawMeme briefly summarizes and collects a number of articles on several law enforcement agencies' (FBI, DOJ and DEA) recent petition to the FCC to expand government wiretap capability (FBI seek to expand the system-formerly-known-as-Carnivore). C|Net News reports that the petition... 5051@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-03-15T07:48:02-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/12/ricin_patent_removed_from_pto_database.php Security expert Bruce Schneier has written to blogger and Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor about a patent that seems to be missing from the online US database ('Dangerous' Patent Removed from Database?). He quotes Schneier: In October 1962, the... 5047@http://importance.corante.com/ Patent 2004-03-12T13:38:58-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/09/information_cannot_be_0wn3d.php John Palfrey uses his blog to summarize what sounds like an extremely interesting lecture by a visiting scholar to the Berkman Center (Prof. Jean Nicolas Druey: "Information Cannot be Owned"). The post is somewhat unclear, but it seems to be... 5032@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2004-03-09T18:49:08-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/01/13/drm_as_protectionism.php One of the main reasons that Hollywood has been such a proponent of DRM (such as fighting to protect CSS) is not simply to protect against internet movie piracy (which remains a minor irritation at best), but to protect region... 4949@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2004-01-13T11:20:47-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/11/20/slater_wins_one_harvard.php Derek Slater fights the good fight and wins a round (Update: Diebold, Harvard, and Me). Slater was one of the citizens engaged in e-civil disobedience against e-voting machine manufacturer Diebold's mendacity. He posted a mirror of the infamous Diebold memos,... 4932@http://importance.corante.com/ Civil Liberties 2003-11-20T17:27:38-08:00