Work ended Friday. Now I have to live off my savings instead of pulling down stupid money to bill about 4 hours a day. Woe.

electronink flew out today. Last night the firm's EFF trivia team had a "Fourth Place" party in SF to celebrate our close brush with victory last month. I stayed up until 3 AM hanging out with electronink while he packed. We ate pizza and watched ( Read more... )

Hey Seattle! I'm flying into town tonight, staying at my own apartment, and flying back early Sunday afternoon. I'll be helping orientate the new 2Ls into the wonderful world of the Shidler Journal, which will take up the early afternoon, then we're taking them out for happy hour on the journal's dime. (Booze is in fact a large part of what the ( Read more... )

Of course the week everyone comes to town is the week that I have work-related social engagements Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. Monday evening I will be comforting the bereaved. And on Friday I'm flying to Seattle. So I don't know if I can find time to see everyone while you all are in town! And you're probably all staying in San Jose ( Read more... )

Good, good, good. This heads off any chance for bad precedent to come out of the Texas district court and reinforces the point I make in my forthcoming article on search engine liability for trademarked keyword purchases: It's useless to sue search engines anymore. If you want to sue somebody because your competitors are bidding on your trademarks ( Read more... )

Okay, that's as done as this draft's gonna get. I can make it not suck later.

Shit, people were trying to predict how courts would treat cryptographic keys and passphrases for Fifth Amendment purposes ten years ago*, and it took this long for an actual case to come up ( Read more... )

"With a key of length n bits, there are 2n possible keys"
vs.
"With a key of length n bits, there are 2n possible keys"

Glad I caught that.

Brute force attackers probably wish it were that easy, though.

I wonder if the government deciding to brute-force a defendant's encryption password, where the crypto is strong and the password ain't easy, violates the Speedy Trial clause.

Hmm!

3ricj, megatherion, and thewronghands, could I get your slides/notes from HOPE last year? Thanks.

I am no longer writing my second journal article about 5th Amendment rights and PGP passphrases. I am writing my next journal article on information security best practices and legal liability for small- and medium-size businesses ( Read more... )

My first article just got preempted. Meaning some punk at Arizona State University beat me to publishing a substantially similar - in fact, at first glance, better - article on the same damn topic.

Now what?! Arrrrgh!