...obs had launched a revolution. Thirty years earlier, at the First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twenty-one-year-old Jobs, wea... ...-one-year-old Jobs, wearing his first suit, ex- hibited the Apple II personal computer to great buzz amidst “10,000 walking, talking computer freaks.” ... ...some very good (VisiCalc), and some not so good (the inevitable and frequent computer crashes). The iPhone is the opposite. It is sterile. Rather than... ...ll and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers. 6 No doubt, for a significant number of us, Jobs was exactly ri... ...ppliance. For example, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is a powerful computer, but, unlike Microsoft’s Windows operating system for PCs, it do... ...ss along. In turn, that lockdown opens the door to new forms of regula- tory surveillance and control. We have some hints of what that can look like. ... ...d threatens to curtail future innovation and to facilitate invasive forms of surveillance and control. A non-generative information ecosystem advances... ...ken with the device in a number of ways: preemption, specific injunction, and surveillance. Perfect Enforcement 107 Preemption Preemption entails anti... ...al from the devices of registered sex offenders but not from others’ devices. Surveillance Tethered appliances have the capacity to relay information a...

...n since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolved into a territorial, commercial, corporate exten... ... reviewers. The Internet was suppose to change all that. Originally, a computer network for the exchange of (restricted and open) research result... ...m this phase which ended only a few years ago. It started with a complete computer anarchy manifested in ad hoc networks, local networks, networks of... ... Hardware Prices This happens in every medium but it doubly applies to a computer-dependent medium, such as the Internet. Computer technology seems... ... every 18 months and an exponential series ensues. Organic-biological-DNA computers, quantum computers, chaos computers - prompted by vast profits a... ... tape recorders, DNA imprints, fingerprinting, phone tapping, electronic surveillance, satellites - are all instruments of more effective law enforc...

...n particular. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I... ...a colleague—helped in more ways than I can count. A number of scientists and computer scientists made me see things I other- wise would not have—Drew ... ...le of thought. Today, though, I am viewing his letter over the Internet on a computer screen. (You can too. The details are at the back of the book.) ... ...e there no free- speech limitations? When other forms of authorship, such as computer pro- grams, are brought into copyright’s domain, does the power ... ...llows for parody, commentary, and criticism, and also for “decompilation” of computer programs so that Microsoft’s competitors can reverse engineer Wo... ...rights, new private enforcers of those rights, and technological control and surveillance measures were all needed in order to benefit consumers, who w... ...ailed as the great “technology of freedom,” into a technology of control and surveillance. The possibility of individuals circulating costless perfect... ... be fitted with mandatory radio beacons and highways put under constant state surveillance in order to deter crop theft. In addition, car trunks should...

...,Atta was selected by a com- puterized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passen- ger Prescreening System), created to identify pas... ...ity. Like the check- points in Boston, it lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate when the hijac... ...ary 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. The casing team also included a computer expert whose write-ups were reviewed by al Qaeda leaders. 83 The t... ...da leaders. 83 The team set up a makeshift laboratory for developing their surveillance photographs in an apartment in Nairobi where the various al Qa... ...perative, Khaled al Fawwaz, to serve as the on-site manager. The technical surveillance and communications equipment employed for these casing mission... ...d targets in Djibouti. 84 As early as January 1994, Bin Ladin received the surveillance reports, com- plete with diagrams prepared by the team’s compu... ... the surveillance reports, com- plete with diagrams prepared by the team’s computer specialist. He, his top mil- itary committee members—Banshiri and ... ...rt of prescreening called on the air carriers to implement an FAA-approved computerized algorithm (known as CAPPS, for Computer Assisted Passenger Pre... ...ening of their carry-on baggage as had been the case before the system was computerized in 1997. 55 This policy change also reflected the perception t...