Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said many IoT devices don’t provide a way to update their software, and most people wouldn’t know how anyway.
Source: Hackers now have wider choice of weapons – The Boston Globe
“The courts could say, if the public thinks the tax returns are so important, let it demand that the candidate authorize the IRS to release them on pain of losing votes,” said Jonathan Zittrain, a privacy expert and professor at Harvard Law School.
Source: The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return – The Washington Post
“It’s just something that would be a way of coordinating as people came online and needed to use numbers and, later, names,” Jonathan Zittrain, an internet law professor at Harvard University, told NPR.
Source: Has the United States ‘lost control’ of the internet? – CSMonitor.com
Amber, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, helps you keep your links working.
Source: How to keep linked content available with Amber – TechRepublic
As Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet expert at Harvard who has served on an ICANN advisory committee, observed in 2014 after the Obama White House issued its transition plan, ICANN had virtually no authority over how Internet users behaved online. You could register the website www.gap.clothing “through an ICANN-approved process,” he wrote; but ICANN would have no jurisdiction if you “sell fake Gap clothing on your website goodclothes.clothing.”
Source: No, Mr. Trump, the U.S. is not turning over control of the Internet to Russia and China – LA Times
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to release this series of papers, which aims to build a bridge between academic research and policymaking in the networked world by helping to identify opportunities in key areas related to digital technology and innovation.
Source: Translating research for action: Ideas and examples for informing digital policy | Harvard Gazette
He started keeping track of the unique numbers assigned to particular computers using the Internet, during its early days. Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet law professor at Harvard, says Postel kept a clipboard to make sure no user had the same number — sort of like a phone book.
Schneier, CTO of IBM’s Resilient and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, said that most of the attacks were standard, though huge, DDoS attacks —blasts of data designed to overwhelm servers.
Source: Someone is Testing Methods for Taking Down the Entire Internet
As Jonathan Zittrain, the co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, states in Werner Herzog’s film Lo and Behold, “We can design systems that are really anonymous or that are utterly identifiable down to the person, and it’s time for us to think about what contexts we’d want to support what.”
Source: We’re looking at cyberbullying the wrong way | TechCrunch
Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said the Yahoo breach was very serious because so many Internet users routinely store sensitive data on Internet-based systems — not on the hard drives in their desktop PCs, for example. “We no longer keep our stuff on our computers,” he said. “We keep our stuff on their computers.”
Source: Yahoo hack is one of the largest security breaches of the Internet age – The Boston Globe