CS 3111
Computer Ethics
| Spring 2011
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- Map to Nowhere:
The FCC has now failed twice at producing good broadband data. Time to give someone else a try. article
- My Money Is Cooler Than Yours:
Why the new electronic currency Bitcoin is a favorite of libertarian hipsters and criminals article
- Is Nathan Myhrovlds Intellectual Ventures behind the iOS in-app purchase patent troll job? article
- Apple, Google Collect User Data article
- Lester Bangs' Basement:
What it means to have all music instantly available article
- U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web
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- Google Block:
The Google Books settlement should teach the company humility. It won't. article
- Google accuses China of blocking Gmail
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- Security Firm Is Vague on Its Compromised Devices article
- Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling article
- Report on China's 'Jasmine Revolution'? Not if you want your visa. article
- Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy article
- Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note
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- Chinese Government Responds to Call for Protests article
- How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central article
- Regime steps up censorship and online disruption to block protests article
- House OKs short-term extension of Patriot Act:
The House passes an extension of Patriot Act surveillance measures, temporarily bypassing opposition from 'tea party' lawmakers and others who say they threaten privacy article
- Oil Firms Hit by Hackers From China, Report Says article
- Republican-led House fails to pass short-term extension of Patriot Act article
- Beijing Blocks Protest Reports article
- The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark
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- BI searches in WikiLeaks denial-of-service case article
- Police arrest five over Anonymous WikiLeaks attacks:
Five people in custody on suspicion of crippling the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal article
- Be a Gamer, Save the World:
Videogames make players feel like their best selves. Why not give them real problems to solve? article
- Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate article
- Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay article
- Die, Patent Trolls!:
Will IBM's new meta-patent help fix a broken system or just make things worse? article
- Watson beats humans in Jeopardy! dry run:
They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence article
- IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video!) article
- In Online Privacy Plan, the Opt-Out Question Looms article
- FCC set to enact new net neutrality rules article
- Monitoring America article
- Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web article
- Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies article
- LimeWire, After Lengthy Battle, to Shut Down Dec. 31 article
- Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know articles
- Will Comcast Destroy Net Neutrality?: Parsing the latest battle over openness on the Internet article
- FTC recommends 'Do Not Track' program in Internet privacy report article
- FCC Chief Backs Usage-Based Broadband Pricing article
- Iran's nuclear program reportedly struggling article
- Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels article
- How China swallowed 15% of 'Net traffic for 18 minutes article
- The Invasion of the Cookie Monsters:
Whom to blame for the loss of our Internet privacy article
- Half off! France "fights piracy" by subsidizing digital music article
- Pentagon braces for huge WikiLeaks dump on Iraq war article
- Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic article
- This Facebook spam kingpin was fined 1 billion article
- Students hack Washington D.C.'s web voting system to play college fight song article
- The CCTV vigilantes: Snoopers paid to sit at home watching store security cameras article
- Global Cyber Scheme Hits Bank Accounts article
- U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet article
- Feds’ Requests for Google Data Rise 20 Percent article
- Hollywood sounds alarm as streaming video websites enable a new wave of piracy article
- The Great Internet Freedom Fraud:
How Haystack endangered the Iranian dissidents it was supposed to protect article
- Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats article
- Sulzberger Concedes: 'We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future' article
- The Internet's Secret Back Door:
Web users in the United Arab Emirates have more to worry about than having just their BlackBerries cracked article
- Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans article
- Microsoft Co-Founder Launches Patent War article
- The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves article
- U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong article
- Lawmakers' reaction to FCC's broadband move could signal hard fight ahead article
- New U.S. Push to Regulate Internet Access article
- FCC Chairman Genachowski expected to leave broadband services deregulated article
- Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty on Two Charges David Kernell, 22, Could Face Up to 20 Years in Prison article
- Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card article
- What's Your Sign?:
A Supreme Court case that puts Scalia and gay rights advocates on the same side. article
- Denial of Service:
Don't believe the telecoms. Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you think. article
- Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net article
- South Korea to put curfew on online games for kids article
- Is Net Neutrality Dead?:
A calmer view of the recent ruling that hamstrings the FCC article
- Court rules for Comcast over FCC in 'net neutrality' case article
- Death From Above:
How video games could help prevent battlefield tragedies like the one revealed by WikiLeaks article
- Myriad Genetics Can't Patent a Human Gene:
The wise judicial ruling in a lawsuit over a test for breast cancer article
- NEW LITIGATION CAMPAIGN QUIETLY TARGETS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MOVIE DOWNLOADERS article
- YouTube's Original Sin article
- China state media says Google 'is not god' article
- Cracks in Great Chinese Firewall, even without Google article
- Google Faces Fallout as China Reacts to Site Shift article
- Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship article
- Viacom Says YouTube Ignored Copyrights article
- Google to shut China search engine article
- Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets Up Battle article
- Game Over:
A baby starves to death while its parents play online article
- Internet access is 'a fundamental right' article
- Patently Stupid:
Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous article
- Apple Sues Nexus One Maker HTC article
- FCC Chairman Genachowski confident in authority over broadband, despite critics article
- Facebook patents the news feed article
- The Watchers article
- Broad New Hacking Attack Detected
Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data at nearly 2,500 Companies; Operation Is Still Running article
- School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home article
- Ruling due on Google's book plan:
Google insists that it will not back down on its plan to digitise and sell books online article
- ACLU, EFF and Others in Court Thursday to Challenge Google Book Search Settlement article
- War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills article
- Feds push for tracking cell phones article
- Born To Sue:
Bruce Springsteen's lame effort to back out of a copyright lawsuit article
- Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks article
- For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future article
- Hacking for Fun and Profit in China’s Underworld article
- In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent article
- WRAPUP 4-China says US Internet accusations "baseless" article
- Comment: Internet - New shot in the arm for US hegemony article
- China hits back at US over internet censorship
Hillary Clinton's call for Beijing to investigate Google cyber-attack claims could damage bilateral relations, China warns article
- Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'? article
- FBI broke law for years in phone record searches article
- US broadband's average speed: 3.9Mbps article
- Google china censorship: for china there is no exception in enforcing its laws article
- Google's China move puts focus on local censorship plans article
- China's Silicon Ceiling:
The Beijing/Google skirmish is a reminder that free markets require free minds article
- Google Pulls a Conan on China:
Treat us right, the search engine shouts to its audience, or we'll yank the plug on Google.cn article
- North Korean hackers may have stolen US war plans article
- The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins article
- Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates article
- Can You Patent a Cat and a Laser Pointer?
The Supreme Court takes on frivolous patents, and might end up eliminating protection for software.article
- Bootleg Nation
How strict are Chinese copyright laws?article
- China Expands Cyberspying in U.S., Report Says:
Congressional Advisory Panel in Washington Cites Apparent Campaign by Beijing to Steal Information From American Firmsarticle
- Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?: How does fair-use law work, anyway? article
- Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen ‘Nook’ E-Reader (Updated); article
- Finland makes broadband access a legal right; article
- Net Cemetery: Comcast, the biggest threat to free speech since Nixon; article
- Gang of 100 Phishers Charged in U.S., Egypt; article
- PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account for Distributing Hacking Tools; article
- Former Teen Stock Swindler Pleads to New Hacking Charges; article
- FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records; article
- Save the Google Book Search Deal!; article
- Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project; article
- FCC's Genachowski Proposes Modest Net Neutrality Expansion; article
- Piracy kiosk pops up in Germany; article
- Hacking the Regime: How the Falun Gong empowered the Iranian uprising; article
- 1.2bn population of India to be given biometric ID cards; article
- Obama Embraces Patriot Act; As Senator, He Was Skeptical; article
- The Globalization of Censorship; article
- Learn how to protect yourself from identity theft; article
- Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe; article
- 3.9M or 7M? Behind the UK's dodgy file-sharing numbers; article
- ''Anonymized'' data really isn't -- and here's why not; article
- Goodbye, DRM; hello ''stealable'' Digital Personal Property; article
- RIAA Lawsuit Campaign Losing Credibility: Releases Comprehensive Report on Five Years of File-Sharing Litigation; article
- Don't Bet on It:
The Silly War on Internet Gambling; article
- Wal-Mart Latest Music Store to Deactivate DRM; article
- Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid; article
- Apple in legal hot water in Norway because of iTunes DRM; article
- Test Center: Sandbox security versus the evil Web; article
- Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe; article
- Online poker fraud revealed; article
- Congress poised to pass Internet radio legislation; article
- Microsoft, Washington state sue over 'scareware' pop-up ads; article
- Spam king's conviction reversed; article
- DECE -- Lipstick on the DRM pig; article
- Government elaborates, slightly, on cybersecurity plan; article
- Ars puts Spore DRM to the test -- with a surprising result; article
- Google Chrome's open-source ally: Microsoft; article
- Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack; article
- Tim Berners Lee goes postal on spam; article
- $1bn lawsuit takes novel approach in fighting spam; article
- Transformers ... Now in Streaming Video!: The latest trend in online movie piracy; article
- Diddy Could Save Sampling: Why hasn't he or any other big-name rapper even tried?; article
- Lessons vary from Radiohead experiment; article
- Viacom's true desire: one copyright filter to rule them all; article
- The Dog Ate My Evidence: What happens when the government can't re-create the case against you?;
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- The conjurer's dilemma; how magicians protect their tricks; article
- American lawbreaking: how laws die; article
- Google's evil eye: does the big G know too much about us?; article
- AP sues US news aggregator for copyright infringement and trademark abuse;
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- P2P researchers: use a blocklist or you will be tracked...100% of the time;
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- Civil Disobedience on the web: British bloggers stand up to threats of libel lawsuits; href="http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/">article
- RIAA trial verdict is in: jury finds Thomas liable for infringement; article
- Minnesota jury orders woman to pay RIAA $222,000 for illegal music sharing; article
- The rise of the 'good enough' technology economy; article
- Analysis: RIAA wants universities to do its dirty work; article
- Experts rank Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts; article
- MPAA wants deeper relationship (read: content filtering) with ISPs ; article