Abstract
Attempting to stretch existing laws to address previously unforeseen technological issues.
Index Terms
- Unsolicited communications as trespass?
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Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the Protect America Act
A new US law allows warrantless wiretapping whenever one end of the communication is believed to be outside national borders. This creates serious security risks: danger of exploitation of the system by unauthorized users, danger of criminal misuse by ...
Cryptography, Law Enforcement, and Mobile Communications
In this issue's installment of Crypto Corner, we review the handset-related methods law enforcement agencies can use to gather evidence during criminal investigations. This article's goal is twofold: explain how law enforcement agencies gather handset-...
Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail: Empirical Analysis of a Digital Commons
Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) is a significant problem of the digital commons, but there has been little empirical analysis of proposed solutions and underlying mechanisms. This study, based on an analysis of 47 million inbound e-mail messages ...
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