Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

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.

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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
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“Sunshine State”: It Should Have Been a Contender

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

This song, Sunshine State, should have been a contender for state song instead of the horrors we got.

But at least you can enjoy the video.

(via Eye on Miami)

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South Florida Delegate Results

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

The Florida Democratic party had caucuses last weekend; as far as I know these don't count any more than anything else Florida Democrats do.

The numerical results were determined by the voting in the Florida primary. The issue at the caucus was who would get to be the actual delegates.

How are the district-level caucuses run? Who chooses the delegates? The selection of district-level delegates will be in 25 post-primary district-level caucuses around the state on March 1, 2008. The highest vote-getters slotted under each presidential candidate are elected. (The numbers each presidential candidate gets in each district is dependent on the Presidential Primary results in that district.) In order to participate as a voter in the caucus, a voter must establish that he or she is a registered Democrat within the Caucus' Congressional District. Voters must present a voter registration card and photo I.D. The voter will then be required to fill out a statement of support for the presidential candidate whom he or she supports. Delegates and alternates will be elected only by those participants at the caucus who have declared support for the same candidate to whom the delegate or alternates are pledged. Each participating voter must vote for exactly the number of delegate candidates to which the presidential candidate is entitled. Undervotes and overvotes will result in that ballot becoming invalid and will not count.

See the unofficial results, if you want to know who won in south Florida.

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