Unless otherwise marked, all reading assignments will be available from the distribution center. Some, but not all, are also available on line. I hope and intend that each "unit" below (e.g. "Introduction") will take approximately one class. But you never know..
Each Part should be considered tentative until hyperlinked.
Note: I've added some (optional) references to places you can go for breaking news at the end of this document.
Cybertimes (free subscription required)
Jessica Litman's "New Developments in Cyberspace Law"
Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater -- details and archives at http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/
The irregular (about once a week, more or less) RISKS Digest -- The Forum on Risks to the Public In Computers and Related Systems. Interesting news items on computer-aided screwups and some of the world's worst puns.
Dave Farber's Interesting People list (to them, and often about about them).
Bytes in Brief, a useful and gently opinionated weekly roundup of legal developments.
Eben Moglen's Spot News About Leopards.
Cryptome.for the latest in crypto and security news. ("Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security and intelligence, but not limited to those. ")
Worth a quick look, but a bit frothy, Wired News.
Another source, although somewhat duplicative of sources listed above, is ACM's TechNews. The bad thing, or good thing, about TechNews is that it only comes out three times a week.
If three times a week is too much, there's the weekly e-commerce newsletter from Steptoe and Johnson. In addition to the same US stuff many other sources have, it tends to cover major events in both West and,-- more unusually -- East Europe relating to e-commerce and crytpo.
And for the really hardcore, try Slashdot
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