My brother Jeff, who loves music more than I love the Internet, just played in a Bob Dylan tribute show, and there’s now video available: I was sorry to be on the wrong coast for it. I’ll be visiting at Stanford again this fall — a great piece of West Coast life for me is […]
I was asked to give the commencement talk at my old high school this year. I wrote it out ahead of time, so figured I’d share it here —
Larry Lessig wrote the epic Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace ten years ago. Cato is marking the anniversary with a debate at Cato Unbound. Declan McCullagh’s lead essay is here. My response is here, and below.
Facebook boasts more than 200 million active users, with an astounding 100 million logging in at least once per day. Its prominence is not just in numbers of users. It’s what they do: many share intimate and sensitive details about themselves. That not only means that the service is susceptible to privacy panics (both real […]
The Washington Post has reported that the U.S. Congress will shortly take up a bill to “empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” Today’s conventional wisdom in cybersecurity circles is that: we’re very much open to attack (defined lots of ways; often people mean: PCs attached […]
I’ve agreed to be a guest blogger for a little while at the Chronicle of Higher Education. I’ll plan to cross-post here and there. My opening question: I’ve recently written a book about the Future of the Internet (the paperback version comes out this week). The argument it makes has a lot of moving pieces. […]
The Berkman Center has just launched a very cool new project, MediaCloud, which you can see over at mediacloud.org. They’re gathering stories from thousands of newspapers, blogs, and other news sources around the web, and then extracting piles of data from the stories—source, topic, entities mentioned, and so on. Their idea is to figure out […]
Some thoughts on the Facebook terms of service privacy storm: Facebook and other social networks have an especially tricky time in this zone, since so much user data is relational. You upload a photo of you and me; I tag it with your name. I leave Facebook — does your name disappear from the photo […]
John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg. David’s right that a lot of the ideas in the NYT piece echo my book’s thesis. Here’s my reply to David: Suppose that we agree on […]
