“A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.”
Craziness! See the SF Chronicle article at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/15/BAOS11P1M5.DTL
Different social networks serve different purposes. Keep them straight, but always remember that what you post online could end up anywhere and post accordingly.
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.
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
I'm currently a graduate student of the history of law and technology at the University of California, San Diego. I also provide law and technology consulting services.
Additionally, I'm a non-practicing lawyer and former developer/sysadmin at a biotech non-profit. For more about me and my work, see krisnelson.org or my Google Profile. Post title: Network Tech Locks SF Out of Network
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