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Everything you should know about … warrant canaries

Dec 8, 2014

Guest post by Naomi Gilens, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School [I’m pleased to feature on the blog some of the best work undertaken by HLS students on Internet-related topics. –JZ] In 2002, the FBI used the newly-passed Patriot Act to demand that libraries secretly turn over records of patrons’ reading materials and Internet use. The […]

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“Imagine having to regularly navigate your TV’s setup menus to ward off malware” was an absurd analogy I used ten years ago to explain why PC security had to improve. I mean, no one would make a TV like that, right? (Samsung has since deleted the tweet; photo below.) twitter.com/zittrain/statu… pic.twitter.com/xULwHYhSBk

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@nigenet @python33r (I imagine policy is for them to do that and then try to sort it out once in DMs.)

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@nigenet @python33r And the deadpan reply! pic.twitter.com/oQPfSyMird

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@hayden_curley Facebook is centrally-mediated even as it’s primarily non-FB-sourced content. Napster was the same, minus the push elements of FB feed. Regulatory pressure on Napster led to a new generation of p2p apps like Gnutella that had no central mediation. AirDrop is like that. (whew)

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone