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

[Ari Lacenski]

+1, interested.

I would like to be around for discussion of how use of anonymization
services (VPNs, Tor, etc) influences legal judgments, in the broad
sense. No specific case questions pop to mind; I'm just interested.

Cool idea!

Ari

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sai <sai at saizai.com> wrote:
> 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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