Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Second Life Claims Another Vicitm

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

After a very engaging start to his/her blogging career, Lucky Jim, J.D. wrote on Dec. 15, 2007 that s/he'd started to explore Second Life,

I’ve recently begun to explore Second Life. My cover story is that I’m engaged in fieldwork for socio-legal research on law and informal regulation in virtual communities. There’s more than a grain of truth in that. I am in fact interested in that topic, am in fact working on research in that vein, and do in fact believe there’s plenty of interest along those lines in Second Life. There’s even a Second Life Bar Association and a Second Life Law School.

But, the pathetic truth is that I’ve also found my initial forays to be surprisingly enjoyable.

And the blog hasn't been updated since.

Posted in Blogs, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment

The Case for Voting McCain

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Posted in Politics: McCain | 2 Comments

Wikileaks: Julius Baer Bank and Trust Decides to Cut Its Losses

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Leaving bad enough alone, Swiss Bank Drops WikiLeaks Case.

Here's a link to the dismissal without prejudice. Which means that theoretically it could be re-filed. But it won't be.

(Not in the USA, anyway.)

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To Really Foul Up Requires a Computer

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

You can't make this stuff up.

Secret Airforce One flight data sent to Suffolk tourist web site:

SINCE 2001, the US air force has been sending highly confidential emails including the flight plan for the presidential jet, Air Force One, to an English factory worker who runs a Suffolk tourism website.

In the late 1990s, Gary Sinnott, of Mildenhall in Suffolk, near Cambridge, set up the website www.mildenhall.com, to promote his hometown. He soon became inundated with emails meant for airmen at the US airbase at RAF Mildenhall, where personnel email addresses end in mildenhall.af.mil.

It was all harmless enough when the emails were mundane messages to friends and silly videos, but soon Sinnott discovered that he was also getting battlefield strategies and military passwords sent straight to his inbox.

Note: theinquirer.net, a mildly scurrilous but generally well-informed British technology e-rag is not to be confused with a supermarket tabloid of a similar name.

Posted in Internet | 2 Comments

The Future of Car Doors

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Is this the future of car doors? Looks good to me:

Posted in Sufficiently Advanced Technology | 2 Comments

UM Law Hires Three Exciting Young Scholars

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

We hired three people out of the entry level pool this year, and I for one am very pleased with our haul:

  • Caroline Corbin, JD 2001 Columbia University; Teaching Fellow, Columbia University
  • Osamudia James, JD 2004 Georgetown University, Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin
  • Markus Wagner, erstes juristisches Staatsexamen 2002 University of Giessen, JSM 2006 Law Stanford
Posted in U.Miami | 5 Comments