http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-06-09T16:15:00-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/09/granick_wants_to_know_top_ten_legal_questions_for_hackers.php Jennifer Granick, executive director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, will be attending Black Hat and Defcon in Las Vegas and will be talking about the Top Ten Legal Questions of interest to attendees. So, email... 5985@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-09T16:15:00-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/27/more_on_crypto_and_criminal_evidence.php A few days ago I took note of State v. Levie, in which Levie was convicted of solicitation of a child to engage in sexual conduct, which included taking nude photos (Mere Presence of Encryption on PC Relevant to Criminal... 5792@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2005-05-27T12:13:11-08:00 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/2004/08/16/rumors_of_sha1_vulnerability.php Ed Felten breaks what may be very important news on Freedom to Tinker (SHA-1 Break Rumored). SHA-1 is a member of the SHA family of cryptographic hash functions. Basically, a hash takes a file and then creates a "unique" and... 5358@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2004-08-16T20:53:37-08:00 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/2003/10/27/drm_companies_fund_feltens_attacks_on_drm.php Famed computer science professor Ed Felten runs the Freedom to Tinker blog, where his discussions of cryptography, security, copyright and freedom and technology generally are deservedly popular. Popularity comes with a price, however. In this case, the cost is the... 4818@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2003-10-27T09:02:48-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/10/27/poor_traffic_light_engineering_practices.php The Detroit News has a story on special infrared transmitters that can can broadcast a signal to receivers on traffic lights, turning the light from red to green (Gadget may wreak traffic havoc). The purpose of the devices is to... 4817@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2003-10-27T08:50:07-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/10/21/1_respond_to_nonexistent_threat_2_3_profit.php Tim Oren has an interesting post on his Due Diligence blog concerning the intersection of security and business concerns in the design of systems (What's Your Threat Business Model?). He uses SSL as an example of how business models and... 4772@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2003-10-21T19:40:21-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/10/16/famous_crypto_case_ends_with_whimper_not_bang.php According to C|Net News' Declan McCullagh, the famous cryptography export case Bernstein v. US DOJ has been dismissed due to statements by the DOJ that they promise not to enforce the law against cryptographic researchers (Cold War encryption laws stand,... 4740@http://importance.corante.com/ Cryptography 2003-10-16T01:09:50-08:00