Recent headlines:
- EPIC establishes Privacy Threat Index: [note to self: contribute this year]
- Super-DMCA Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis (all honeyd info has been moved to a server in the Netherlands). related: EFF opposes Digital Lockdown (“super-DMCA“), EFF analysis of Super-DMCA. From Poulsen’s SecurityFocus article:
- Computer seizures of riot footage at MSU
- Testing Microsoft and the DMCA – MIT grad students dropped by Wiley subsid Hungry Minds, then dropped by shopping cart company after self publishing. Related: see iSONEWS (US vs Rocci)
- AT&T Blackboard Campus ID system secured via Cease & Desist – I remember seeing the original articles in the 2600 last year. USC uses this ID system.
A University of Michigan graduate student noted for his research into steganography and honeypots — techniques for concealing messages and detecting hackers, respectively — says he’s been forced to move his research papers and software offshore and prohibit U.S. residents from accessing it, in response to a controversial new state law that makes it a felony to possess software capable of concealing the existence or source of any electronic communication.
“That’s personal property,” he said. “If police would have taken the footage then it would be valid. If they’re taking them from students then it’s out of control.”