Christopher Leger

Intellectual Property, Individual Rights, and Technology

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ACTA:The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Needs Senate Review and Public Availability Now!

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments

International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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Tags: DRM · Politics · Technology Policy · copyright · networks

DNS hijacking by your ISP

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Listening to the current episode of security now, I heard a very disturbing story from a listener. This listener is a Charter Communications ISP customer, and put OpenDNS into his router for his DNS server. He did this to patch the huge DNS security flaw that many ISPs are reticent to fix (including Charter). However, [...]

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Tags: FCC · Internet Security · Politics · Technology Policy · cable · networks