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ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: An entry from Thomson Gale's West's Encyclope...
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?West's Encyclopedia of American Law? is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West?s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind. Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.

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Inclusion Through Media (ITM) is a programme of projects across the UK which use audio-visual media to engage young people and excluded individuals and communities. It focuses on projects that bring the target groups together with media professionals to produce high-quality products for maximum impact. ITM projects stress innovative methods and participatory approaches. One of ITM's objectives is using ICT for the production and distribution of learning materials and products developed by partners and target groups. Converge is a programme to enable young people to showcase their audio/visual works on the web. Goldsmiths produced in collaboration with Hi8Us this handbook and workshop programme to enable young people to make use of existing sites like the Internet Archive, Participatory Culture, YouTube and Video Syndication Network and to publish videos on own sites using Free an Open source software.

Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety and Privacy in ...
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Like any new frontier, cyberspace offers both exhilarating possibilities and unforeseen hazards. As personal information about us travels the globe on high-speed networks, often with neither our knowledge nor our consent, a solid understanding of privacy and security issues is vital to the preservation of our rights and civil liberties. In reaping the benefits of the information age while safeguarding ourselves from its perils, the choices we make and the precedents we establish today will be central in defining the future of the electronic frontier.

Since 1991, the non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has worked to protect freedoms and advocate responsibility in new media and the online world. In Protecting Yourself Online, Robert Gelman has drawn on the collective insight and experience of EFF to present a comprehensive guide to self-protection in the electronic frontier. In accessible, clear-headed language, Protecting Yourself Online addresses such issues as:

avoiding spam [junk mail] spotting online scams and hoaxes protecting yourself from identity theft and fraud guarding your email privacy [and knowing when you can't] assessing the danger of viruses keeping the net free of censorship and safe for your children protecting your intellectual property

Produced by the leading civil libertarians of the digital age, and including a foreword by one of the most respected leaders in global business and the cyberworld, Esther Dyson, Protecting Yourself Online is an essential resource for new media newcomers and old Internet hands alike.

Big Dummy's Guide To The Internet
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Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design
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Sometimes you have to do good engineering to straighten out twisted politics. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are protected as new communications technologies emerge, and O"Reilly, the premier publisher of computer and computer-related books, team up to produce Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design. By doing this they have exploded the government-supported myth that the Data Encryption Standard (DES) has real security.

National Security Agency and FBI officials say our civil liberties must be curtailed because the government can't crack the security of DES to wiretap bad guys. But somehow a tiny nonprofit has designed and built a $200,000 machine that cracks DES in a week. Who's lying, and why?

For the first time, the book reveals full technical details on how researchers and data-recovery engineers can build a working DES Cracker. It includes design specifications and board schematics, as well as full source code for the custom chip, a chip simulator, and the software that drives the system. The U.S. government makes it illegal to publish these details on the Web, but they're printed here in a form that's easy to read and understand, legal to publish, and convenient for scanning into your computer.

The Data Encryption Standard withstood the test of time for twenty years. This book shows exactly how it was brought down. Every cryptographer, security designer, and student of cryptography policy should read this book to understand how the world changed as it fell.

Frontiers the electronic newsletter of the National Science Foundation (SuDoc...
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Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques and Frontiers ...
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Traffic grooming is the name given to a family of optical network design problems that has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry in the last decade or so. The huge bandwidth of fiber optical networking is much larger than the typical bandwidth demands experienced by network service providers. This mismatch creates a need for multiplexing the low rate traffic demands into optical wavelength channels, but this requires costly electronic switching equipment, potentially offsetting the benefit of cheap optical transport. Traffic grooming refers to network design and resource allocation algorithms that can enable cost-efficient use of both network bandwidth and electronic switching. Due to the increasing bandwidth of optical communication on the one hand, and the growing variety of traffic demand magnitudes on the other, traffic grooming has grown from a narrow research area to a mainstream requirement for real world practitioners.

This book presents the practical motivation, theoretical description, and extant techniques for traffic grooming in optical networks. The description of the various topics of research will be authored by leading researchers in this area, and will contain comprehensive description of related literature for each area. This book is intended to be a definitive reference and text for traffic grooming both for the practitioner in industry and the student in academia.

Hot debates on Chilling letters. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article): An article from...
By: Peter Piazza
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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 447 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hot debates on Chilling letters. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article)
Author: Peter Piazza
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 46 Issue: 7 Page: 42(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Building the open road: The NREN as a test-bed for the National Public Network
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A technology policy for America: Six broad initiatives (EFFector online)
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p2pnet news view | P2P:- Megan Taylor Meier from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, was only 13 when she hanged herself in her bedroom closet. It?s said she was driven to killing herself after online text attacks by Josh Evans on MySpace. But ?Josh? was a fake allegedly created and ?run? by Lori Janine Drew, the mother of one of megan?s friends. Drew was ultimately charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) but, declared the Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Center for Internet and Socie • What Does Google's Settlement Mean for Startups?
Last month, we wrote about Google's decision to pay book publishers and authors $125 million to settle two copyright infringement suits aimed at the Google Book Search Program. According to Bloomberg News, U.S. District Judge John Sprizzo tentatively approved the deal earlier this week and there will be a hearing on June 11th to "further consider the pact's fairness." In announcing the terms of the proposed settlement in October, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond wrote on the compan • EFF Fighting the Good Fight on Wiretap Case Immunity
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a reply brief yesterday in response to the federal government?s and telecoms? motion for dismissal or summary judgment in an ongoing lawsuit against the telecoms for their (alleged) participation in illegal warrantless surveillance. The case is captioned ?In re National Security Agency Telecommunications Records Litigation, Mdl No. 1791?. This is the suit that motivated the immunity provisions of the FISA amendments. But they were drafted in a very very • EFF files new brief in telecom spying lawsuit
EFF files new brief in telecom spying lawsuit Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 07:13 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a reply brief [pdf] tonight in response to the federal government's and telecoms' motion for dismissal or summary judgement in EFF's lawsuit against telecoms for alleged participation in warrantless surveillance. Congress had given telecoms a "get out of jail free" pass this summer whereby the court would have to dismiss any lawsuit • Change for America on Science and Tech Policy, Part 2: The CTO
Change for America on Science and Tech Policy, Part 2: The CTO White House CTO is a new job, but the forthcoming Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, now in production and due in bookstores in January, devotes a chapter to recommendations for the post in the new administration. Mitchell Kapor, founder of the Lotus Development Corporation and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is the author. 11-18-08

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