Compsci 82, Fall 2008, Readings

1. (Aug 25-29): Internet Tussles and Issues

   • Jonathan Zittrain, Chapter 5: Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement "The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It" accessible as a pdf from the book's website and readable as HTML.

   • Tussle in Cyberspace by Clark, Wroclawski, Sollins, and Braden

   • It's the Software Stupid (Wall Street Journal Digital Network). Visit the site twice and notice the differences, questions relating to this site will be posed as part of class (you can pose questions too).

2. (Sept 1-5): Internet Governance: Group 1
   • Who Controls the Internet? (Foreign Affairs, 2005)

   • Who Should Govern the Internet? (CACM, 2006).

   • ICANN, The Debate Over Governing the Internet, Duke Law and Technology Review, 2001.

   • This reading is optional, but will help in understanding the issues --- you don't need to include it in your summary/reaction: Introduction to Internet Architecture and Institutions, Berkman Center, 2003.

3. (Sept 8-12): Internet and Politics: Group 2
   How the Internet Invented Howard Dean (Wired, January 2004)

   (Video, optional but interesting) Zephyr Teachout from Personal democracy Forum on the Internet's Still Unrealized Potential

   Social Networks in Political Campaigns: Facebook and the 2006 Midterm Elections

   Toward a model of Political participation among young adults: the role of local groups and ICT use (get the Full-text via PDF when logged in from Duke or via a Duke-VPN).

4. (Sept 15-19): Blogs, Web, Politics, Ads: Group 3
   • The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog

   • Blogging and Political information: Truth or Truthiness

   • Fragmentation and Cybercascades by Cass Sunstein

5. (Sept 22-26): Electronic Voting: NO GROUP synopses due this week
   • A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections, Adam Cohen, NY Times, July 31, 2008.

   • Wikipedia on HAVA the Help America Vote Act.

   • Table comparing E-Voting Machines to Slot Machines from Washington Post, 2006.

   • Computer Technologists on the Dangers of Internet Voting (Sept. 11, 2008, from verifiedvoting.org)

   • Security Considerations for Remote Electronic Voting over the Internet, Avi Rubin, 2002.

   • Voting System Risk Assessment via Computational Complexity Analysis, Dan Wallach, preprint, August 2008.

6. (Sept 29-Oct 1): Electronic Voting, same readings as last week: Group 1

7. (Oct 6-Oct 10): Open Source I: Group 2 Synopsis
   • Open Source Baselines: Compared to What? by Lawrence Lessig.

   • IBM's Pragmatic Embrace of Open Source by Pamela Samuelson

   • Wikipedia on Open Source and the dispute about the neutrality of the article.

   • Intellectual Property for CS Students

     The Economy of Ideas John Perry Barlow, 1994, Wired.

   • Stallman on open v free

   • (Optional, a different lens on Open Source)

     The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism by Michael Truscello.

8. (Oct 13-Oct 17): Open Source II: What and Why?: Group 3 Synopsis
   • Gift Economies in the Development of Open Source Software: Anthrpological Reflections, Research Policy 2003, Zeitlyn.

   • The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, Lerner and Tirole.

9. (Oct 20-Oct 24): Patents and Software: Group 1, synopsis due on Oct 24.
   • Software Patents -- Obstacles to Software Development, talk by Richard Stallman

   • A New Paradigm for Intellectual Property Rights in Software, Duke Law & Technology 2005, Mark Webbink.

10. (Oct 27-Oct 30): DMCA: Group 2, synopsis due Oct 31.
    • Fair Use, Youtube, DMCA, arc technica, Court Decision for Lenz/Universal, and the Youtube Video in question.

    • Unintended Consquences: Seven Years under the DMCA 2006, EFF.

11. (Nov 3-Nov 6): P2P: Group 3, synopsis due on Nov 7
    • IAAL: What Peer-toPeer Developers Need to Know about Copyright Law Fred von Lohmann, EFF.

    • Did MGM Really win the Grokster Case, CACM, Pamela Samuelson

    • Influences in cooperation in BitTorrent communities, Andrade, Mowbray, Lima, Wagner, Ripeanu, SIGCOMM.

    • Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent, Bram Cohen.

    • optional EFF, Packet Forgery

    • optional Challenges and Directions for Monitoring P2P File Sharing Networks or Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice

12. (Nov 10-Nov 13): Anonymity and Privacy: Group 1, synopsis due Nov 11
    • Summary and links about AutoAdmit lawsuit, see this washington post article about case for a popular view.

    • Consumer Privacy, Balancing Economic and Justice Considerations text available via library or via local mirror.

13. (Nov 17-Nov 20): Spam, Cybercrime and warfare: Group 2, synopsis due Nov 24
    • Social Phishing (CACM 2007)

    • Why Phishing Works (CHI 2006)

    • (optional) Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (2000 IEEE).

14. (Nov 24): Censorship and Access: Group 3, synopsis due Dec 5
    • Google and Censorship from Sunday NY Times Magazine, Nov 30.

    • Internet censorship: be careful what you ask for, Ian Brown, SSRN preprint.