Lex Spoon

I see continued assumptions by people that the real names policies of Facebook and Google Plus have actual teeth. I've posted before o...

I wrote earlier that PROTECT-IP and SOPA are getting relatively too much attention . Specifically, I mused about this problem: First, DNS t...

I get the impression that SOPA, the latest version of a U.S. bill to enable DNS takedowns of non-American web sites, is under a lot of press...

Blizzard Software's lets you use the same name on multiple games and on multiple servers within the same game. Historically, they requir...

I'm late to notice, but Dana Boyd has a good article up on the case for pseudonymity . She emphasizes the safety issues, which I certain...

At the same time that Blizzard and Google are fighting for real names only on the Internet, children's advocacy groups are fighting for ...

I am late to realize, but apparently, Google Plus is requiring a real names only . They go so far as to shut down accounts that are using a...

A number of professors have signed a letter to the U.S. Congress opposing Protect IP : The undersigned are 108 professors from 31 states, t...

There is some commentary lately about a paper arguing that PROTECT IP is fundamentally incompatible with secure DNS. This argument is misle...

Brad Templeton has some good comments up on top-level domains in the DNS . Their heart is in the right place, because Verisign’s monopoly o...

People participating in online forums are better off being identified by pseudonyms rather than by their legal names. This is pretty engrain...

Guy Steele has a noble goal in mind for the Fortress library: I have noticed that when I give talks about Fortress and start talking about ...