General Discussion

• The night the IETF turned off IPv4 --Dsiffert 10:29, 14 March 2008 (EDT)
• A quick blurb on the battle for generativity in mobile devices. More info on Android here. --BWiegand 12:19, 17 March 2008 (EDT)

• If you were bitten by the Wikipedia bug after the last assignment, consider updating the Internet Law Treatise. You'll not only help out your fellow cyberlaw students and practicioners, but you'll also make Kurt Opsahl very happy.

• Entrapment or normal police work? FBI Uses Fake Child Porn Links to Find Houses to Raid Mike M. 09:11, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

    ian: well, it's definitely not "entrapment" as far as the criminal law is concerned
    Anonymous: ian, why do you keep trying to bring "law" into this?
    Mike M.: If you don't like entrapment, how about due process concerns?
    Anonymous: probable cause, etc.
    ian: what's the due process concern?
    Mike M.: If I'm the porno pilferer in an apartment two flights up from the guy who's apartment is getting raided, it seems his rights have been violated when his only crime was to leave his linksys WRT54G router unprotected.
    Mike M.: They don't have probable cause to raid the place when IP addresses can be ghosted, spoofed, or stolen.
    Anonymous: What's the liability for people leaving routers unprotected?
    ian: probable cause doesn't mean "certainty," it means a fair probability. the possibility of IP spoofing doesn't negate p.c.
    Anonymous: We might think that unsecured wifi could be something like a negligent entrustment claim, but you'd have to have some level of knowledge.