Network Tech Locks SF Out of Network

• Does an open WiFi signal reduce your 4th Amendment protections?

  A federal trial court in Oregon ruled that a suspect's rights were not violated when police -- tipped by a neighbor -- accessed his unprotected WiFi network and saw child pornography shared via his iTunes library.

  
  
• Narratives and evidence in the litigation of high-tech patents

  Colleen Chien has a paper in SSRN, dated April of 2009, that explores the narrative of patents, from the epithet of "troll" applied to patent owners who seek only to leverage their patent through licensing, and not application, and including our rather romantic perception of an inventor.

  
  
• Different social networks for different purposes

  Different social networks serve different purposes. Keep them straight, but always remember that what you post online could end up anywhere and post accordingly.

  
  
• The FCC re-classifies in response to Comcast

  Last month, Comcast won its appeal in a federal appeals court in D.C. against the FCC's attempt to require network neutrality. As predicted by some, the FCC is proceeding with plans to reclassify broadband providers, and thus escape the ruling entirely.

  
  
• Bayesian networks and criminal defense

  I have begun to consider the utility of formal methods of evidential evidence mapping. Even without deep mathematical knowledge, the formulas are useful in any presentation of statistics in a courtroom, and can help avoid common reasoning fallacies (like the "prosecutor's fallacy").

  
  

Post title: Network Tech Locks SF Out of Network

Authored by: krisnelson

Date posted: Jul 16, 2008

Categorized as: government • technology

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