This spring, a report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society criticized the state for failing to spend $22 million on WiredWest, with one researcher calling the state’s last-mile broadband project “a tragic political mess.”
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According to an op-ed by Jonathan Zittrain, which was published in the New York Times, this is a move that is making a lot of people unhappy.
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of computer science and international law at Harvard, is a co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
But Patrick Murck, a fellow at Harvard University’s BerkmanKlein Center for Internet & Society, said the Bitfinex plan wasunlikely to survive a legal challenge.”It might be a pyrrhic victory. You might still end up withless money,” said Murck, who is also co-founder of the BitcoinFoundation and its former general counsel, but the “odds arefairly low” that nobody will test it in court.
Source: ‘Grumpy hold-outs’ could sink Bitfinex recovery plan after Bitcoin theft – Yahoo Singapore Finance
“When we take a break from tech, we’re taking a break from our usual social involvement, which is what we typically have done in our vacations before there was tech. We go somewhere where our friends are not, perhaps a place that offers us more solitude,” says David Weinberger by email, fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Taking time off from tech: How many people need to ‘digital detox’? – CSMonitor.com
“Courts are much more likely to find fair use when it’s transformative,” said Andy Sellars, an attorney at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in a recent interview with the Poynter Institute. “Most cases with GIFs, this would tend to be OK.”
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Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of the IBM security firm Resilient and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, also warned of the gravity of such attacks. “This kind of cyber attack targets the very core of our democratic process,” Schneier said in a blog post.
Source: Hacking of DNC raises fears of cyber attack on US election – Breitbart
Stubbs started a consulting firm, Romulus Global Issues Management, in 2007 and remains connected to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Says cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society: “Sony is a company that hackers have loved to hate for 10 years.”
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“This is going to be the first of many kinds of legal battles around the platform economy. I’m sure that other companies are going to mount similar kinds of defenses when they’re in regulatory crosshairs,” said Vivek Krishnamurthy, assistant director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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