Jonathan Zittrain

The Sheriff’s Office of Anderson County, Tennessee, has what may be the only live jailcam in the US, covering the little area in the jail where jailors sit and keep an eye on things. Maricopa County, Arizona, shut its camera down after losing a lawsuit by inmates.
The Anderson County cam is very Web 2.0: there’s [...]

Champions of openness say: no security through obscurity.  Better to have a system’s blueprints open and available, which will enable good outsiders to find and fix any flaws, and which will prevent the system’s designers from using others’ supposed ignorance of its working as a crutch or substitute for real security.
But: Google’s pagerank algorithm for [...]

A Bank of America manager created a very painful derivative to U2’s One and performed it at a company meeting to celebrate a merger. From the quality of the video and the number of angles it looks like it was professionally taped — not a cellphone recording here — and then distributed within the company. It’s [...]