Marvin Ammori

Some of the original engineers of the Internet are protesting the Senate’s anti-piracy bill, which they say could alter the underlying architecture of the web by destabilizing the domain name system, among other things.

Update: These and other objections have led to changes to the bill.

Chinese hackers are accused of launching denial-of-service attacks against the Japanese government in recent days, apparently in protest over the recent maritime incident between China and Japan.

Susan Crawford connects the dots with much of today’s news, suggesting that consolidation in access to big pipes has led to leveraging against content owners and government officials.

Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is formulating rules for net neutrality, which includes a late 2012 expiration date and bars the FCC from reclassifying broadband services under Title II.

Marvin’s note to Justin’s posting: This may be bad news. Most of the reports about these rules suggest an unsatisfactory proposal even worse than the Google-Verizon pact. It would make AT&T and Comcast happy, but not serve American citizens or American businesses.  Things appear to be fluid. Still monitoring. (Here is a draft of the proposal leaked by industry.)

Google and Microsoft are fighting to amend the 1986 Electronic Communications Act in an effort to extend privacy for users of their cloud-based email services.

Federal law enforcement and national security officials want to make sure that all services enabling communication (BlackBerry, Facebook, Skype, etc.) can technologically comply with any wiretap issues that are ordered.

That’s what a report from a think tank at the NYU School of Law says. The Hill runs it all down.

The Fair Elections Now Act, if passed, would appropriate revenue from auctioning spectrum in order to fund elections for House members.

Now that most public schools and libraries have basic internet access, the FCC is hoping to retool its E-Rate program (part of the Universal Service Fund) so that these same institutions can now have broadband access.

NPR has the first of a two-part report on the law of war and its application to cyberspace. Worth a listen.