As we reported last week, Microsoft's new music download store, MSN Music, advised its frustrated iPod-toting customers to simply burn their purchases to CD, then rip them to an open format like MP3. That way, they could play their MSN Music downloads on their iPod (or any other device)...

Tech support for Microsoft's new MSN Music service is responding to the incompatibility between its downloads and the iPod by advising its customers to burn the downloads to CD, then rip the CD to a compatible format:
Although Apple computers and Apple iPods do not support the PC...

The Federal Circuit today affirmed [PDF] that the DMCA does not "divest the public of the property rights that the Copyright Act has long granted to the public." The court ruled that that Skylink's universal garage door opener does not violate the DMCA Section 1201(a)(2). (See EFF's ...

Bruce Schneier has a new op-ed questioning the rationale behind checking all air travelers against the government's "no-fly" list, the central feature of the new CAPPS II, "Secure Flight":

Imagine a list of suspected terrorists so dangerous that we can't ever let them fly, yet so innocent that...

The California Voter Foundation has published the Ten Things Elections Officials Can Do to Secure the Vote This November, and its number one recommendation is that voters be given the option to vote on paper wherever non-auditable voting technologies are used, providing everyone with the choice of "paper or...