[Noisebridge-discuss] Talk from Prof. Chris Hoofnagle re computer crime law?

Sai sai at saizai.com
Tue Aug 28 04:19:07 UTC 2012


Howdy, all.

I recently talked with Prof. Chris Hoofnagle of the UC Berkeley Boalt
School of Law. He's teaching a course on computer crime law that I
think y'all would find interesting.

See http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/courses/coursePage.php?cID=9668&termCode=D&termYear=2012
for details; in particular, take a look at the syllabus PDF that's
linked there.

He expressed an interest in giving a condensed talk at Noisebridge
about this, and learning more about hacker culture in general while at
it.

EFF's Jennifer Granick has given similar talks a couple times and been
very well received; her talks tended to focus more on civil liberties
broadly, whereas Prof. Hoofnagle's domain is specifically computer
crime law (see http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=6494).
He comes at this from a purely legal background - that is, he can
accurately describe network stack layers, but it's from his legal
experience, not because of a CS background.


1. Would y'all be interested in having such a talk?

2. If yes, what subjects would you particularly like addressed? (See
the syllabus above for some ideas, though of course you needn't
confine your suggestions to those.)

Feel free to respond either directly to Chris or to me. If you have
questions you'd like addressed but for whatever reason want to be
anonymous, just email me privately saying so, and I'll relay it
without any identifying information.

Happy hacking,
Sai



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