The Lippard Blog

Wikileaks is releasing over 500,000 U.S. national text pager intercepts from September 11, 2001, over the next two days : From 3AM on Wednes...

The 2009 Hogan and Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture in honor of Lee Loevinger was given on the afternoon of November 5 at Arizona State Universi...

Yesterday's New York Times has an interesting article about how security researchers at the University of Toronto have helped uncover o...

On September 26, 2007, I submitted a request to the Department of Homeland Security requesting copies of information relating to me in the A...

I saw two articles this morning which I think invite comparison. First, Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, says people visiting Chi...

How sad to see political partisanship turn him into an advocate for bad legislation . The telecoms shouldn't get civil or criminal immu...

The June 7, 2008 issue of The Economist reports that Hugo Chavez issued a decree late last month which : authorises police raids without w...

26 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, are currently on trial in absentia in Italy for the kidnapping and "extraordinary rendition" ...

The March 10 Wall Street Journal contains a fairly detailed description of the data mining operation being run by the NSA . The program de...

Mark Fiore helps teach kids about the importance of warrantless wiretapping . (Hat tip to Bob Hagen.)

An article in The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild worries that the FBI's InfraGard program is deputizing businesses, training them f...

The Washington Times reported on December 21 that several years ago, Chinese intelligence successfully subverted the National Security Agen...

Declan McCullagh live-blogged the U.S. House of Representatives hearing on "Yahoo Inc.'s Provision of False Information to Congress...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office last night arrested Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, owners of the Phoenix alternative newspaper New T...

There's an interesting and entertaining article at Esquire about Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty movement , which seems to me to tak...

The Bush administration, commenting on Congress' expansion of the Executive branch's warrantless wiretapping powers without needing ...

Julian Sanchez points out the staggering misrepresentation by those arguing that the recent increase in wiretapping power amounts to nothi...

Both houses of Congress have passed a bill that updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping wh...

The New York Times editorialized that vice president Dick Cheney was the person who sent then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and chi...

There's now much discussion in the blogosphere about former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey's testimony before Congress . Co...