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James Cowie at the Renesys Blog discusses the technological differences between Libya’s Internet blackout and Egypt’s complete shutdown.

Sony, in its suit against PS3 hacker George Hotz, has won a number of subpoenas requiring Hotz’s ISP, Google, and YouTube to disclose (among other information) the IP addresses of visitors to his website and other accounts.

Blog host WordPress has been hit with the largest attack they’ve ever seen.  According to a statement by founder Matt Mullenweg to CNET, WordPress.com is being targeted by a DDoS–Distributed Denial of Service–attack which has caused “sporadic slowness.”

Michael Joseph Gross at Vanity Fair chronicles the history of Stuxnet – and reflects on its implications.

Larry Downes has a piece at Forbes today on a proposal by Senators Snowe and Kerry which would require the FCC and NTIA to develop an inventory of existing spectrum licenses.  You can read the bill here.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously (in an 8-0 decision) that corporations, though defined as persons in the Freedom of Information Act, do not enjoy the right to “personal privacy” that can be used to bar disclosure of documents requested under FOIA.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. has an opinion piece in the New York Times discussing cyberspace and its developing role in geopolitics and international security.

Andrei Soldatov has an opinion piece in the Moscow Times on how Moscow may respond to a wave of social media-based revolutionary fervor.  An excerpt:

That is precisely how the FSB and Interior Ministry reacted to the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt — by proposing Criminal Code amendments that would have made the owners of online social networks responsible for all content posted on their sites. Apparently, the idea is not to incriminate the owners of Facebook and Vkontakte of extremism personally, but to force them to pass responsibility on to individual users by requiring each to sign a contract that includes their passport information.

The National Academy of Science’s Computer Science and Technology Board has released a report entitled Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options which “describes key technology trends, their implications, and options for facilitating the introduction of enhanced and new services.”  You can download the report for free here.

Andy Greenberg at Forbes’ Firewall reports on an upcoming paper written by Harvard professor Yochai Benkler in which the scholar criticizes the public and private sectors’ response to the Wikileaks affair.  From the paper:

“The implicit alliance, a public-private partnership between the firms that operate the infrastructure and the government that encourages them to help in its war on terror, embodied by this particularly irritating organization, was able to achieve extra-legally much more than law would have allowed the state to do by itself.”