Network World – WASHINGTON, DC — Should revenge assaults be just another security tool large IT shops use to counter cyber attacks? It’s a controversial idea, and the law generally frowns on cyber attacks in general, but at the Black Hat DC conference …
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Software patents are the problem not the answer — Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal. We’d both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact. But we have very different opinions about how to do it. Nathan believes the patent system is the answer …
Seems a simple question, really. But try to put the answer to paper or computer screen, and more pointedly, try to write that definition into law, and suddenly the effort gets more complicated — as do the First Amendment implications for a free …
Seems a simple question, really.