Computers, Crimes, and Privacy

School of Law

Santa Clara University

Spring 1997

Lecture Notes Outline: Table of Contents

• I. Mechanics: Seminar
• II. Law and Technology
• III. Three topics:

• I. Today the present, future, and papers. Next week into the past.
• II. Strong Privacy: The technology
• III. The Supporting Technology: power, bandwidth, VR
• IV. Implications of strong privacy

• I. Lund v. Virginia (1977)
• II. U.S. v. Seidlitz (1978)
• III. U.S. v Jones: (1977)
• IV. Versaggi (1987)

• I. Review:
• II. Technological digression:
• III. How the web works: theory and practice.
• IV. The rest of the internet: Web is so popular because because it is easy to use.

• I. The Hacker Crackdown: The sociology of computer crime
• II. U.S. v. Robert Riggs (and Craig Neidorf)
• III. Unix source code cases. 1990.
• IV. Review: Issues raised by the criminal cases.
• V. Steve Jackson case:
• VI. "Sending a Message"
• VII. Some final comments

• I. Computer Crime:
• II. Low tech computer crime:
• III. Card counting?
• IV. How much computer crime is there?

• I: The old nightmare: Computers as the end of privacy.
• II. Public Fork:
• III. Rogan v City of Los Angeles
• IV. Private fork: Thompson v San Antonio Retail Merchants Association
• V. Fair Credit reporting act.
• VI. Digression: How should we handle the private data base issue?
• VII. Privacy: How can it be provided, destroyed

• I. The question of standards:
• II. Review:
• III. Digression on details: Digital signatures et. al.
• IV. As computers get faster, they can encrypt faster, decrypt faster, and break encryption faster.
• V. Froomkin on the clipper chip:
• VI. Controlling Encryption--today we are playing the government's role, and trying to figure out how we would control it if we wanted to.
• VII. Some possible problems with Clipper
• VIII Hardware v Software encryption
• IX. Beyond Clipper:
• X. International: Dorothy Denning thought piece.
• XI. Why does the government care about cryptography?
• XII. How important is wiretapping? Freeh's statement
• XIII. Chapter 3:
• XIV. Chapter 4: Policy dispute.
• XV. Chapter 5: The digital telephony act

• I. CDA arguments:
• II. Security issue: Macromedia Shockwave Multimedia plugin.
• III. Security Issue: ActiveX and Quicken.
• IV. Chapter 6: Diffie.
• V. PGP Story:
• VI. Federal Encryption related law:
• VII. Perfect Crimes article
• VIII Lots more stuff on the CDA
• IX. Sable v FCC: One of the closest things to a relevant precendent
• X. Clipper III: "Voluntary" infrastructure with escrow.
• XI. Randall Schwartz Case:
• XII. Remailer liability issues?

• I. What have we learned?
• II. Orwell Lesson: Too early.
• III. Thanks for helping me teach the class.