While other states are courageously standing up to Congress' misguided national ID mandate, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving his constituents a rather indifferent message.
In response to a constituent's letter (sent through our Action Center) urging California to reject implementation of the REAL ID Act, the...

The AACS Number and Human Rights ActivismEthan Zuckerman ponders the digital civil disobedience over
the HD-DVD processing key and spreading other important
information across the censored web.
Secret Court Wiretap Orders Up, Up, UpWired makes a link between the growing numbers of wiretaps
and...

The Bush Administration is pushing legislation that could let telecommunications providers off the hook for illegally assisting the NSA's domestic spying program, and one of your Senators may be on the key committee that can stop it. Use our Action Center to defend your rights.
In January 2006,...

When the presidential debates are aired by CNN on June 3rd and 5th, the public will be able to edit, remix, parody and publish the footage ? without worrying about copyright violation. CNN has pledged to make debate footage available to the public ?without restriction.?
CNN's decision comes...

Learn cyberlaw without leaving cyberspace through the State of Play Academy. The Academy offers free classes through the virtual world There.com. The Spring Semester has already started, and runs through June 8.
The virtual classes will teach you the sort of fascinating stuff your real college never gets...

In a News.com editorial published today, security experts Bruce Schneier and Richard Forno lay out what's wrong with REAL ID:
"As currently proposed, Real ID will fail for several reasons. From a technical and implementation perspective, there are serious questions about its operational abilities both to protect...

As was reported back in February, an enterprising hacker unearthed and posted one of the decryption keys used by AACS to decode HD-DVD movies (other keys and exploits have been made available in the weeks since). Now the AACS-LA (the entity that licenses AACS to makers of...