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Welcome to Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw, a January course taught by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-hosted by Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School.

If you are a student, please see Course Logistics. All regular class meetings will be at Stanford Law School Classroom 308.

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WEEK ONE: Theory and Problems

Monday, January 3th: 5pm to 7pm

Professor Zittrain will give a lecture on the technological workings of the Internet.

There will be time made for brief student introductions.

Required Readings For Class:

• Read Brief Angry Statements of Confusion: How the Internet is Covered
• Read Chapter 2 of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

Recommended Readings:

• Salzter, et al End-to-End Arguments in System Design

After Class Reception! 7pm to 8:30pm

Please join us for a celebratory first-day-of-class reception, directly after class.

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Tuesday, January 4th: 11:30am to 1:30pm

Privacy and Technological Points of Control

Guests

• Fred von Lohman EFF
• Dean Hachamovitch Microsoft

Required Readings for Class:

• Read Zittrain's Internet Points of Control
• Read “Supreme Court rules against file swapping” (June 2005)
• Read “Microsoft unveils 'do not track' option for IE9” (December 7 2010)

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Wednesday, January 5th: 5pm to 7pm

Cybersecurity and Diplomatic Transparency

Required Readings for Class

• Read Clark and Landau's Untangling Attribution
• Read Zuckerman's Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites (pp 48 through 58 required; pp 8-25 recommended for technical background)
• Read Zittrain and Sauter's Wikileaks FAQ

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