Blog 313-E

Hackerspaces: The Legal Bases Nicolle Neulist “RogueClown” Hacker communities in many cities are becoming interested in starting hackerspaces. Getting together a core of talented, inquisitive, and creative people is an integral part of it, but it is also important to address the legal questions that...

Jailbreaking and the Law of Reversing Fred Von Lohmann Senior Staff Attorney, EFF Jennifer Granick Civil Liberties Director, EFF Using jailbreaking of the iPhone as a primary example, the presentation will be an overview of the laws relating to reverse engineering of hardware and software....

PRESENTER Robert Clark, Attorney ABSTRACT This presentation reviews the important prosecutions, precedents and legal opinions of the last year that affect internet and computer security. We will discuss the differences between legal decisions from criminal cases and civil lawsuits and what that means to the...

The Year In Computer Crime Cases Jennifer Granick Civil Liberties Director, EFF Its been a booming year for computer crime cases as cops and civil litigants have pushed the envelope to go after people using fake names on social networking sites (the MySpace suicide case),...

Your Mind: Legal Status, Rights and Securing Yourself PRESENTER James “Myrcurial” Arlen Security Researcher Tiffany Rad President of ELCnetworks, LLC. and Adjunct Professor at University of Southern Maine’s Computer Science Department ABSTRACT As a participant in the information economy, you no longer exclusively own material...

Between now and the commencement of Defcon 17, and in no particular order, I will highlight those speakers and sessions that will cover topics directly related to Cyber Warfare and Cyber Law (as opposed to Cyber Security in general). After the final conference proceedings are...

Official: NKorea believed behind cyber attacks http://bit.ly/CAArP

Score one for Twitter in the legal battle over who is responsible for stopping social media imposters. See http://tinyurl.com/lgcnvq

Many Cyber Warfare analysts have noted the pivotal role that Twitter played in the recent (and possibly ongoing) Cyber Warfare efforts related to the Iranian election dispute. See http://tinyurl.com/lfq5pa and also http://tinyurl.com/nl56wj. However, is Twitter exposing themselves to negligence liability, and if so, is there...