Show Notes – March 30th, 2015

Two feds who investigated Silk Road accused of stealing from it, too http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/two-feds-who-investigated-silk-road-accused-of-stealing-from-it-too/ “Copyright troll” Perfect 10 hit with $5.6M in fees after failed Usenet assault http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/copyright-troll-perfect-10-hit-with-5-6m-in-fees-after-failed-usenet-assault/ UN Human Rights Council Appoints Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/un-human-rights-council-appoints-special-rapporteur-right-privacy Court Sides With Google, Shuts Down Mississippi AG’s Abuse of Authority https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/court-sides-google-shuts-down-mississippi-ags-abuse-authority * * TechSpot […]

Show Notes – March 16th, 2015

http://gothamist.com/2015/03/13/wikipedia_edits_on_eric_garner_sean.php http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/nypd-edited-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries-20150313?print=true http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-caught-red-handed-sanitizing-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zoombinisgame/zoombinis https://tech.safehubcollective.org/cybersecurity/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/anti-doxing-strategy-or-how-to-avoid-50-qurans-and-287-of-chick-fil-a/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/online-privacy-nihilism-runs-rampant-in-us-survey-says/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/cryptolocker-look-alike-searches-for-and-encrypts-pc-game-files/     9min Gizmodo The anti-robot protest at SXSW was almost certainly a hoax. The anti-robot protest at SXSW was almost certainly a hoax. But was it some kind of viral marketing scam, or just a bunch of well-organized, well-funded trolls? [io9] 7min TechSpot This is Sirius, […]

Show Notes – March 9th, 2015

We were joined by guest – Jonathan Stribling-Uss an Attorney, technologist and co-director of the cybersecurity legal organization “constitutional communications”. I’m doing a Continuing Legal Education class on cybersecurity for lawyers at CUNY law on March 17th at 6pm. https://publicsquare.law.cuny.edu/events/cle/emerging-legal-issues-in-cybersecurity – The Ambassador who worked from a Nairobi bathroom to avoid State Dept. IT http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/the-ambassador-who-worked-from-nairobi-bathroom-to-avoid-state-dept-it/ […]

Show Notes – March 2nd, 2015

http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet    Check out the FCC Fact Sheet! https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-327105A1.pdf Engadget 78 Lyft rewards its drivers for picking you up more often A ridesharing service only helps you out if drivers want to pick you up in the first place, and Lyft clearly knows it — the company just countered Uber’s new perk system with one […]