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Looking Ahead: Deconstruction and Justice
This week in my course “Law and Society”, the class responded to a thought provoking question. “Explain, in your own words, the meaning of Derrida’s claim ‘Deconstruction is Justice’. Do you agree or...
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Hackers and State Sentencing: Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was a 26-year-old American Internet activist, writer and software developer. On January 6, 2011, Swartz allegedly entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Building 16 to...
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Hamed Al-Khabaz vs. Dawson College
Durkheim had a social-historical approach to crime. From his perspective, crime was a normal occurrence in any social system and sometimes it served as a positive function for society in its entirety....
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Behold #Twitter Trading Card
Trading cards are nothing new. Since 1887, baseball cards have been manufactured and shared across the world. The beginning of trading cards was commonly found in retail products such as candy and...
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Barrett Brown, Third Indictment
Yesterday, Barrett Brown was hit with a third indictment. The first indictment that Brown faces is from 2012 when he shared a link to a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that provided 5,000 credit...
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Information Wants to Be Free: Alasdair Roberts and his Wikileaks Delusion
Information security is paramount to governments in the digital age. With an increased centralization of data to computer networks, ongoing defence against unauthorized access to an organization is...
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CISPA is back.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) is back. The bill was introduced and passed before the US house last spring but was defeated by the majority in Senate. The purpose of the...
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Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT)
In 2010, a major American defense contractor that specializes in military weaponry and electronics developed a software project called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT). The software...
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Hackers Set Sail for America
This week Mandiant, an American cyber security firm, revealed a report that indicates how the Chinese government or military apparatus has engaged in an extensive cyber espionage campaign against US...
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Push and Pull: Access to Information in Canada
The uncontrolled access to information is one the main areas of contention between governments and citizens. In any point in history, governments and those in hierarchical positions of power understand...
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Non-Documentation in Canada
In De Lint and Bahdi’s (2012) article “Access to Information in Age of Intelligencized Governmentality” a number of concerns around the phenomenon of non-documentation are presented. In order to...
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‘Cuts’ and ‘Deletions’ in Access to Information
Brokering an access to information (ATI) request is not easy. While citizens advocate for an open door policy to the backrooms of government factions, the feds attempt to restrict the flowing...
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Hackers and State Sentencing: Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was a 26-year-old American Internet activist, writer and software developer. On January 6, 2011, Swartz allegedly entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Building 16 to...
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Judicial Democracy
In 1976, academic and professor Matthew G. Yeager sued the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) when access DEA intelligence data system’s NADDIS (Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System),...
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Digital Age Gap
In a networked society, we have to be careful where we leave our digital footprints. Unlike the physical world, our tracks are permanent. A news article posted to the Globe and Mail this week by Anne...
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This does not add up: Barrett Brown and 105 years in prison
This does not add up. At 300 days behind bars and counting, the journalist, information activist and eccentric Barrett Brown is facing 105 years in prison. So far, Brown faces up to 17 charges ranging...
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MIT intervenes: Kevin Poulsen, Aaron Swartz & FOIA
Aaron Swartz was a brilliant American computer programmer, activist, writer and more. In January 2011, Swartz allegedly hacked into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Building 16 to...
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Drowning in a sea of drones
The history of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) can be traced back to precursors of war. For example, in 1849 when the Austrians attacked Venice with bombs...
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Goodbye Arab Spring, Hello Arab Fall
It’s extremely difficult to grasp the magnitude of recent protests in the Arab league. This past Tuesday marked 11 years since the targeted attacks of 9/11 on the United States. The day began with...
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Happy Birthday, Occupy Wall Street
occupy |ˈäkyəˌpī|verb ( occupies, occupying, occupied ) [ with obj. ] to reside or have one’s place of business in (a building): (often be occupied with/in) fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts):...
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