The Koans of Bits (.ppt, .pdf)

Fundrace, Think Before You Post, Google Flu trends, Chinese Google

B 1-17

Representation: How it works and why it matters (Ken Ledeen) (.ppt, .pdf)

Lots of bits: Data representations, Moore's Law (.ppt, .pdf)

Video ads keep eye on viewers, Unicode code charts, Crack bike lock in 30 secs (we'll come back to this when we discuss cryptography)

N 9-32

Probabilities and codes (.ppt, .pdf)

B 73-93, 310-316

Internet basics (.ppt, .pdf)

Feinstein amendment, Public Knowledge update, Series of Tubes, (techno version), RFC 2418, RFC 1

Problem Set 1 for QR48 now Available (web page, .doc, .pdf)

CSCI E-2 students will be emailed

N 57-62

World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else

Internet protocols

Facebook settles accusations, Redacted court document (see p. 22)

Search (.ppt, .pdf)

Facebook TOS, Internet Archive

B 109-160, N 61-76

Guest: Professor Jonathan Zittrain, HLS, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (.ppt, .pdf)

PS 1 due

Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma (Chapter 3 of Professor Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It)

Guest: Intellectual Property Lawyer Marshall Lerner: Free Speech and DVD Copy Protection (.ppt, .pdf)

Please read at least §1201(a) of the DMCA and the beginning of each case.

B, 213-215

DVD CCA v. Bunner (.pdf, .rtf)

First Amendment

DMCA §1201(a)

Universal v. Reimerdes (.htm, .rtf)

Universal v. Corley (.htm, .rtf)

History of encryption(.ppt, .pdf)

Vigenere applet, HR 801, Blount on Kindle, Column on NZ copyright law, text of law (see 92C(3))

Guest: Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media (.ppt, .pdf)

[Add/Drop Deadline]

PS 2 due

N 131-143

Control of Speech on the Internet (.ppt, .pdf)

Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, Congressman Twitters an Iraq Security Breach, Rimm report, Time Magazine followup

Guest: Katherine Albrecht, author of Spychips

(.ppt, .pdf)

PS3 Availalble

Corrected version

Guest: Political consultant Eric Fehrnstrom

Project proposal due

Ups and Downs of a Digital Age Campaign

Inaccuracies In an Instant

Wireless Electromagnetic Communication (.ppt, .pdf)

NY Times on Google Book settlement, the settlement itself, Grimmelmann on how to fix it, Google Corporate Mission

PS 3 due

Guest: Mark Rasch, Cybercrime expert

History of broadcast regulation (.ppt, .pdf, Bush and Blair)

Britain's Antiterror Officer Resigns, Bob Quick photo, Handshot, Cable sabotage, AT&T uses Twitter, Cable map

Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report, 4-6

Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck

Radio and television regulation, finis (.ppt, .pdf)

Letter re Intervention in Google Books Settlement (pdf)

Guest: Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School and Berkman Center for Internet and Society

FBI and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases, Music Industry Sites DDoSed after Pirate Bay Verdict, Upload a Song, Lose Your Internet Connection, My Students. My Cellphone. My Ordeal, Domino's Posts Apology on YouTube

Intellectual property (.ppt, .pdf)

Korean Officials Angered By Google’s Decision To Bypass Law, Internet was alleged 'Craigslist Killer' Philip Markoff's domain - and undoing

PS 4 due

B, 270-280, 285-294

Darnton, Google & The Future of Books

Exchange with Darnton re Google Books settlement

Guest:Professor Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School and Berkman Center for Internet and Society

The Impact of Incentives on Notice and Take-down

Phishing and the Economics of E-crime

Guest: David Weinberger, author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Everything is Miscellaneous (.ppt, .pdf)

Reprise (.ppt,.pdf)

Iranians and others outwit net censors, Supreme Court decision in Fox v. FCC (pdf)