• A draft of my article on strong privacy.
• The text of the book The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling.
• The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip, and the Constitution is a detailed and interesting law review article about the Clipper Chip by Michael Froomkin.
• Virus Hoaxes
• Verisign's project to provide the world with digital signatures is at this link.
• Answers to frequently asked questions about Cryptography.
• The Cornell censorship case
• The Caltech harassment--or possibly fake harassment--case.
• A new online computer law journal is at this link
• Fortune describes Randal Schwartz as a contractor that Intel had "arrested before he did any damage." A lot of people on the net think Intel was the villain of the case. Possible paper topic.
• The new version of the regulations restricting the export of encryption software, now under the Commerce Department (EAR) rather than the State Department (ITAR).There is also a hypertext version.
• The home page of the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy.
• The Internet Legal Practice Newsletter is a free Internet-based Newsletter covering issues of concern to lawyers using the Internet.
• A brief history of the Internet.

Some other links:

• The homepage of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
• Archives (and current issue) of the EFFector, the EFF newsletter.
• The homepage of Michael Froomkin
• Electronic Privacy Information Center. (may be currently down) .
• The League for Programming Freedom. They oppose software patents and user interface copyrights. Newsletters, membership information and their archives.
• Bruce Sterling's texts on the net, includes articles, The Hacker Crackdown, Speeches, etc.
• Also his afterward to the Hacker Crackdown.
• A summary of the Steve Jackson case, written by one of his attorneys.
• The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, with tips and information for the public on technological threats to personal privacy.
• Glass Houses on the Information Highway. Has an excellent list of documents and organizations related to Privacy.
• RSA Data Security, Inc.'s homepage.
• United States Privacy Council. Not their website, just some information about them.
• An archive of the Cypherpunks mailing list.
• WIRED magazine index of Privacy Resources. Lots of stuff, information on legislation, articles from Wired, responses from people involved in the debate. Homepage of Lance Hoffman, author of that book you're using. He is apparently the chair of George Washington University's Institute for Computer and Telecommunication Systems.
• The home page of an MIT class 6.805/STS085: Readings on Computer Communications and Freedom of Expression
• Jinsong Hu's attorney, Anita Susan Brenner, maintains in interesting page on law and the net.
• An archive of computer crime info from CPSR
• An article on Right to Privacy in the Age of Telecommunication
• As evidence that papers sometimes take on a life of their own, here is a webbed article on the interstate transportation of stolen property issue by one of my Chicago students.
• Cryptography and the National Resource Council: The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy, by Kenneth W. Dam
• Sex, Laws and Cyberspace.
• Computers and academic freedom archive, including computer porn faq.
• A Microsoft page on computer security on the Internet.
• A database of all Supreme Court cases since 1937.
• A search page for US Case Law.

• A lengthy discussion of Scientology and the net, from a Dutch perspective.
• A news story on FBI efforts against software piracy.
• A site that lets you surf the web anonymously, along with discussions of web privacy issues.
• The inner circle site discusses issues of privacy, piracy, et. al. with something of an outlaw attitude.
• The Phil Karn case on exporting encryption software.
• The Bernstein case on exporting encryption software.
• Georgia anonymity case. Some additional material on it.
• Compuserve v. Cyber Promotions.
• The FCC has just come out with a paper arguing against regulation of the net.
• The NY state legislature is considering a bill to regulate EMail Spam.

• News article on the case of Jake Baker, who was arrested for posting a sexually explicit story whose victim had the name of one of his female classmates.
• An extensive debate on the Rimm Study of online pornography--which, according to whom you believe, was or was not a scam.
• Some information on the legal status of the communications decency act--which was arguably a result of the Rimm Study.
• Federal Communications Law Journal should have: The Legislative History of Senator Exon's Communications Decency Act: Regulating Barbarians on the Information Superhighway
• The full text of the government's Supreme Court brief in defense of the CDA.
• The Computer Decency Act and a recent constitutional challenge to it.
• A brief in support of the CDA.
• Loving v Boren is a recent case upholding the Universityof Oklahoma's restrictions on access to certain newsgroups.
• The ACLU's brief in Reno v ACLU.
• A Reno v. ACLU amicus brief filed by NY attorney Jamie Stecher on behalf of Jon Lebkowsky and Site Specific Inc.
• An amicus brief filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
• The final Department of Justice Brief in ACLU v Reno--the CDA case.
• The oral arguments in ACLU v Reno.
• Cybersitter is using legal threats to try to keep secret the list of sites that it bans. Some of the threats are aimed at an 18 year old college student and his web page.

Links to Recent Computer Crime Info

• A recent news story on Internet Frauds.
• A recent news story on the use of the Internet to find missing kids.
• A story on malicious code from the Chaos Computer Club of West Germany, and Microsoft's reaction.
• The exploder control and Microsoft's authenticode--digital signatures in action.
• "Your Clickstream is Showing" is an article on on-line privacy.
• Lots of security holes brought you courtesy of LOpht.
• How to steal money with ActiveXbrought you courtesy of the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg.
• How to read other people's EMail from your web page--a brand new security loophole.
• The Shockwave loophole, applied to you.Go to this site to see a demonstration of a web site reading your directory.

• A good summary of the final version of the digital wiretap bill can be found at this link.
• For Yahoo's index of material on security and encryption issues, go to this link.
• The case for Clipper is at: this link.
• Minnesota sets out to police the Internet -- all of it. Read about it at this link.
• A new online computer law journal is at this link.
• Verisign's project to provide the world with digital signatures is at this link.

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Frivolous Links

Annoy.com (which in addition to being frivolous is suing Janet Reno to challenge the constitutionality of the CDA).

Among these images is a print of Manet's "Olympia" When this now famous nude was unveiled in 1863, it caused an outrage because of its blatant sexuality. (From Carl Kadie's FAQ on school policies re internet pornography). (Unfortunately, all you get is a small greyscale version).

Dilbert on shrink-wrap licenses.