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Openness versus consumer protection? Android, iPhone, and transparency

If you follow news about the Android mobile phone platform, you may have seen recent allegations of malware against a third party application available on Google’s Android application market. It’s unclear whether or not the application in question, MemoryUp, was … Continue reading

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Zittrain on the future of the internet

Computerworld has a nice “interview with Jonathan Zittrain”:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=management&articleId=314935&taxonomyId=14&intsrc=kc_feat, a StopBadware co-director and professor at Oxford and Harvard. Zittrain has just published a new book, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It”:http://www.amazon.com/Future-Internet-How-Stop/dp/0300124872/computerworld-20, looking at the consequences decreasing openness … Continue reading

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Zittrain on Security & Innovation

StopBadware founder and co-director Jonathan Zittrain is featured in Information Security News speaking on badware as a threat to the openness and innovation of the internet. As badware attacks become more common, makers of networked devices – including personal computers … Continue reading

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