January 18, 2004
SJ Mercury: Companies tossing aside consumers' freedoms.
Dan Gillmor. At the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, the evidence was mixed. While new technology is adding some useful features to consumer electronics, tech companies -- by embracing Hollywood-dictated restrictions on how digital content is used -- have allied themselves with a greedy cartel at the expense of their own customers.
Washington Post: We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey.
Michael Schrage. It underlines a growing reality: In our high-tech, multimedia era, deception and deliberate misrepresentation are going to become integral tools for public institutions and private enterprise to use in protecting their networks, their information and other valued assets.
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