Yearly Archives: 2009

Berkeley Security Breach Conference on Friday

(Too) Early Thursday morning I'll start my journey towards Berkeley CA, where Friday I'm going to attend what looks a really useful and interesting seminar on BCLT – Security Breach Notification Laws.

Most folks who work in this area concentrate on private data collectors. I'm writing about government data holders, so I'm on the panel that probably should be called “other” but is in fact called Comparative Approaches to Security Breaches.

As I think about it, one thing I've often tried to do is identify issues that other people are not working on and think about them. This is good in many ways, and it has been good to me, but it does turn out to have some costs — fewer folks to talk to, and they don't always know where to put you in conferences.

Oh well, I guess as long as they're still inviting me I shouldn't worry too much.

Posted in Talks & Conferences | 2 Comments

Nice Clean Political Fun

The DCCC is having some nice clean fun with this “Rush Limbaugh rules the GOP” thing.

Here's the latest: I'm Sorry Rush apology generator for GOP leaders who dare to criticize the Leader, and then need to write a grovelling apology.

Unfortunately, the options are too limited, and will quickly be used up by Congressional Republicans.

Posted in Politics: US | 1 Comment

What He Said (Gang of 4 Hypocrites Dept.)

TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime, Remember The “Gang Of 14?”

So when McCain, Graham, Snowe and Collins promised to only filibuster “under extraordinary circumstances,” they were lying.

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UM Law Student Newspaper Goes Blog

The UM Law student newspaper, the Res Ipsa Loquitor, has launched a blog version of itself.

So say hello to The Res Ipsa Loquitur Online: A University of Miami School of Law blog.

Among the first stories, First group of Dean candidates announced; Visits begin this week.

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‘Think Before You Post’

I'm usually not a fan of PR attempts to scare kids about the Internet, as I think the dangers are usually over-hyped. But this think before you post PSA from cybertipline.com seems to me to get the pitch (in both senses of the word) just about right:

Spotted via Smashed Frog

Posted in Internet | 2 Comments

Help Is On the Way

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Posted in Econ & Money | 2 Comments