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OpenDNS

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

With Security at Risk, A Push to Patch the Web in today’s NY Times reminded me about OpenDNS, a free domain name system service.  The article, which deals with a serious security flaw discovered in the operation of the domain name system earlier this year by Dan Kaminsky, an Internet security expert, notes that individuals [...]

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Solitary: Followup

Friday, March 28, 2008

There’s an update to the story about the two Louisiana prisoners who’ve spent 36 years in solitary confinement. It comes via an NBC News press release:
NBC News has confirmed that after 36 years in solitary confinement, inmates Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been moved out of solitary into a shared dormitory setting at [...]

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Another environmental concern

Friday, March 28, 2008

Over the past decade law enforcement has cracked down on the production of methamphetamine, shutting over 100,000 homemade meth labs. Many of these labs were located in private homes. During production methamphetamine residue lodges in carpets, upholstery, drapes and other surfaces. When these former meth labs are sold unwitting buyers are [...]

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Attractive nuisance

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Black’s Law Dictionary (5th Edition–yes, it’s old) defines attractive nuisance as “an instrumentality, agency, or condition . . . which may reasonably be apprehended to be a source of danger to children . . .” The law requires a person who creates or maintains an attractive nuisance “to take such precautions as a reasonably [...]

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Privacy and Security

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data (subscription required) reports that–
According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA [...]

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Nice try, but . . .

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

British Farmer Robert Fidler wanted to build a castle. Not metaphorically, as in “a man’s home is . . .” but literally. Local laws forbade building in the zone where his castle was located but Fidler is not one to have his wishes turned aside by mere regulations. His solution was [...]

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Real Player Warning

Friday, February 1, 2008

Stopbadware.org–organized Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute of Oxford University–warns about the privacy failings Real Player 10.5 and Real Player 11.0. The former does not alert the user that its message center feature will display pop-up ads if the program is not registered, while the latter secretly installs the Rhapsody [...]

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