Week 9 recap

Week 9: Some topics covered this week were briefs on cyber bullying, voting machines, militarization of the internet, and we also had a guest speaker (patent attorney) who talked about the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN. ICANN does all sorts of task on the internet like dealing with identifiers on the internet, issuing domain names, blocking certain regions, and so on. The process seemed complicated and one can only imagine how tedious the work ICANN does. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention the guest speaker (forgot his name) is a volunteer for ICANN. Lastly I will mention voting machines and raise a question I thought of. Who would most likely commit mass voter fraud by hacking into a machine? Voters, officials, hackers? My guess is officials with interest but that's a guess made with no evidence to back it up.

Lucky me was able to find one of the books for level 2 online for free. Also found one of the books for the next level. Here are the links http://r-u-ins.org/resource/pdfs/YouAreNotAGadget-A_Manifesto.pdf and http://tropicaline.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/netdelusion.pdf. I have not read these books but, am looking forward. I always considered myself to be a book reader but, this semester has been my all time record on the amount of books I have completed. In total, I have read six book this semester and have about six more to go in all my classes total. Never have I read so much but, never have I felt so informed. Slowly I feel my intellect going up. Not quite at the level of some of my classmates on technology law though I do feel able to hold a discussion or argument on the topic with anybody.Here's a YouTube clip of Master Switch author Tim Wu speaking about communication monopolies. Enjoy!