Intellectual Property Law

The War on Photography
Bruce Schneier has an update on his article for the Guardian describing the "movie plot" efforts to link public photography and anti-terrorist work. The gist is that there is no credible evidence linking public photography - even of public buildings, infrastructure, etc - to terrorist acts...

Blackwater's Ideal Employee
Norbert Wiener Award winner Bruce Schneier points us to a new 117-page paper by Ronald C. Arkin on Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture...

Fake Fax Signatures
Bruce Schneier has a great post on the apparent insecurity of fax signatures. Bruce is right of course in his assertion that fax signatures can be easily forged, especially if you have a copy of your signature on your computer...

Schneier: RSA Conference Destined to Deflate
In his latest column for Wired.com, Bruce Schneier describes the communications breakdown between vendors with security solutions to sell, and the companies they hope to sell to. He says this this is the beginning of security as a standalone product...

Schneier calls for a data privacy law
In Wired, security and privacy guru Bruce Schneier is calling for a comprehensive privacy law in the United States: Our Data, Ourselves.

Fax signatures - how secure are they
Tristian Wilson was released from a Memphis jail on the authority of a forged fax message. So why, then, do we place so much faith in fax signatures? That's the excellent question posed by security expert Bruce Schneier.