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27 Jun 2016, 4:14 pm by INFORRM
The general tone of the conference is probably best summed up by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation’s Cory Doctorow: In the last twenty years, we’ve managed to nearly ruin one of the most functional distributed systems ever created: today’s Web. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 5:33 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (2014)Baldwin’s basic proposition is that there has been a long history of struggles between creators, distributors and the public, and a related struggle between the idea of Continental authors’ rights (fundamentally moral) and UK/US copyrights (fundamentally economic). [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 7:08 am by Jeremy Gillula and Noah Swartz
The afternoon session of the Decentralized Web Summit started with a rousing call to action by EFF’s own Cory Doctorow, who started by talking about…Oreos. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 2:07 pm by Jeremy Gillula and Noah Swartz
Stay tuned for part two of our coverage later this evening, including a keynote by EFF’s own Cory Doctorow. [read post]
12 May 2016, 10:26 am by Cory Doctorow
In the meantime, here's some links with more detail: History of EME and the covenant at the W3C Interoperability use-cases blocked by EME Open Source Initiative on covenants in EME-like standards Security researchers who support this proposal Sincerely, Cory Doctorow Representative to the W3C Advisory Committee for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Share this: Join EFF [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 4:04 pm by Parker Higgins
It's a scenario envisioned by EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow in his essay Lockdown: as long as we're using the kinds of general purpose computers that power our phones, laptops, and increasingly everything else, the only way to remove capabilities is by requiring DRM software and other spyware to make sure users are in compliance. [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 4:44 pm by INFORRM
Cory Doctorow has argued in the Guardian, that Apple’s fight with the FBI is only the beginning of a wider ‘privacy catastrophe,’ as tech firms who have gathered our data begin to make money out of them. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 8:55 am by Kevin Smith, J.D.
 In fact, Cory Doctorow reads this statement as evidence that the RIAA is afraid of Dr. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 1:58 pm by Parker Higgins
Books reviewed by Cory Doctorow point to his original review. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 5:15 pm by Shahid Buttar
Drew Wilson, a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Free Press, also published podcasts from the summit, as well as a transcript of an interview with EFF’s Cory Doctorow. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 10:53 am by Dave Maass
Cory DoctorowAs part of EFF’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, we are releasing “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier,” an anthology of speculative fiction from more than 20 authors, including Bruce Sterling, Lauren Beukes, Cory Doctorow, and Charlie Jane Anders. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 4:55 am by David Canton
And this article by Cory Doctorow on how ridiculous British Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments on the need to backdoor encryption are entitled What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 5:05 pm by Noah Swartz and Shahid Buttar
That kind of infrastructure is one model to protect student innovation that we'll cover at F2i.We've convened a large group of activists and experts, including Alvaro Bedoya, Cory Doctorow, Joi Ito, Jeremy Rubin, Andy Sellars, Wendy Seltzer, Peter Suber, and Kit Walsh. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 6:32 am by F. Tim Knight
” The latest LFP initiative is a push to have libraries support The Onion Router (TOR) network by hosting TOR exit relays.[1] If you’re not familiar with what a “TOR exit relay” is, Cory Doctorow provides a nice explanation about TOR in his book, “Little Brother. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 11:28 am
A ban would likely mean, as Cory Doctorow notes, that many companies would have to relocate or completely revamp their servers as operating systems like GNU/Linux and BSD use free and open source code. [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 5:48 am by David Canton
That’s a really bad idea – or as Cory Doctorow puts it in a post entitled Once Again: Crypto backdoors are an insane, dangerous idea: “Among cryptographers, the idea that you can make cryptosystems with deliberate weaknesses intended to allow third parties to bypass them is universally considered Just Plain Stupid. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 3:58 pm
  Party The party kicked off at 8pm, with hosts Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow leading the festivities. [read post]