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Camera Phones And Social Media Present An Opportunity For Police Reform

February 10, 2012Erik Kain

Adam Greene was going into diabetic shock, weaving through traffic lanes early in the morning on October 29th, 2010. Police thought he was intoxicated – a reasonable suspicion given the circumstances and the fact that it was 4 AM. This is what happened next: Lawyer’s for Greene released the video this past Tuesday. On the […]

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Camera Phones And Social Media Present An Opportunity For Police Reform

February 10, 2012Erik Kain

Adam Greene was going into diabetic shock, weaving through traffic lanes early in the morning on October 29th, 2010. Police thought he was intoxicated – a reasonable suspicion given the circumstances and the fact that it was 4 AM. This is what happened next: Lawyer’s for Greene released the video this past Tuesday. On the […]

Read more at Forbes.

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Germany Won’t Sign ACTA, At Least Not Yet

February 10, 2012Erik Kain

Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has some big news for the ongoing Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) debate. Germany has announced that it won’t sign the agreement, at least not yet: Okay, things just got serious over ACTA. In our post on Latvia bailing on signing ACTA, we noted that in joining with Poland and the Czech […]

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VeriSign Hit Repeatedly By Hackers…In 2010

February 2, 2012Erik Kain

The company responsible for delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites turns out to have some pretty glaring security holes itself. has been hacked repeatedly by hackers who made off with data that the internet infrastructure company has not disclosed. The company is responsible for domains ending in .com, .net, and .gov. […]

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How Technology Complicates The War On Drugs: Guns And Drugs For Sale Online

January 30, 2012Erik Kain

The War on Drugs is forty-years-old, but since Nixon launched the federal government’s attempt to crack down on illicit substances and drug users, one very important thing has changed: we now have the internet. Gawker’s Adrian Chen broke the story of the underground website Silk Road a while back, noting at the time that just […]

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If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA

January 23, 2012Erik Kain

Updated below. When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online. Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, these pieces of legislation are […]

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Cyber Attacks Take Down Two Israeli Websites – Is Cyber Warfare The Next Front In The Middle East Conflict?

January 16, 2012Erik Kain

Websites for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, Israel’s national airline, were hit by anonymous hackers in what is being described as an escalating cyberwar Monday. A hacker who identified himself as oxOmar contacted Ynet overnight warning that a group called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites. oxOmar was responsible for posting […]

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Belarus Breaks the Internet, Raises the Digital Iron Curtain

January 4, 2012Erik Kain

Belarus is already known for its censorship laws, but that isn’t stopping the Eastern European country from going much further in 2012. Last year the government arrested over 1,800 people who used social media to organize protests of the government in what was termed Revolution Internet. In 2012, the Lukashenko government is cracking down even […]

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Censoring the Internet Won’t Protect Intellectual Property

December 27, 2011Erik Kain

Freddie deBoer wants a better class of IP reform advocates. In a long response to Julian Sanchez, Freddie dismisses the current batch as “pro-piracy” and lays down a critique of the technofuturist crowd that basically writes them off as calloused advocates of artistic ruin and the decline of the artistic middle class. I think piracy […]

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Reddit Makes Headlines Boycotting GoDaddy Over Online Censorship Bills

December 26, 2011Erik Kain

Two bills are snaking their way through congress at the moment in an attempt by the entertainment industry to clamp down on online file-sharing and piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two. Its counterpart in the Senate is PIPA (or the Protect IP Act.) […]

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