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Information Ethics Roundtable 2012

Mikal and I worked up a presentation on smart devices for the Information Ethics Roundtable in New York at Hunter College. I presented our talk in April which consisted of our policy based interpretation of external cognition, and some hypotheticals

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Posted in Computer Science, Law, Talks

Discere Dev Update

Discere is approaching a usable alpha release. I just need to add support for zip/jar/tar/etc archives, and incorporate my prior PST handler from black friar, then add rudimentary document tagging. Spreadsheets are still a bane – I don’t know what

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Posted in Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Law

Social media, 3rd party data storage, and warrants

Just a quick post about this article which I came across this morning regarding warrants going after facebook data. This is a very interesting trend with both privacy as well as public policy implications for the continued advancement of technology.

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Posted in Law, News & Commentary, Uncategorized

Corporations have no personal privacy + SCOTUS Snark Watch

Extra, extra, read all about it – AT&T doesn’t have personal privacy [within the meaning of Exemption 7(C) to the Freedom of Information Act] (“[C]ould reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”). opinion is here. The

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Posted in Law, News & Commentary

HBGary.* part II

More information, or at least a more coherent complete set of information, is available as of this morning from Ars Technica. They have done a really good job of putting the pieces into a clear picture. What I heard in

Posted in Digital Forensics, Hacks, Cracks, and Attacks, Law, News & Commentary, Security