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Nervous System: How Packet Data Built the Internet

Nov 20, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat

Who Got The Work Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct.
The Case of the Video Game Lawsuit Racket

Oct 7, 2024 | lexology.com | David Kalat

How a patent infringement lawsuit between Atari and Magnavox (over Pong) led to the era of patent trollsIn August 1972, visitors to Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, saw something new. Next to the jukebox and the pinball machines stood a 4-foot-tall wooden cabinet with a black-and-white television set inside, and the word “PONG” printed across the front. For a single quarter, players could play a virtual match of table tennis.
The Case of the Purloined Password

Oct 7, 2024 | lexology.com | David Kalat

You may be surprised to learn that the first recorded use of passwords to gain access to a computing system occurred back in 1961. You may be less surprised to learn that this landmark moment in computer history almost immediately led to another landmark: the first computer passwords to be stolen. And the story of how the first computer password became the first password hack has lessons to teach us today.
Nervous System: Who Ya Gonna Call-and Who's Calling You?

Oct 2, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat

Credit: Rokas/Adobe Stock With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Nervous System: Honeypots in Space

Sep 10, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat |Stephanie Wilkins

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Dick Pick, GIRLS, and the History of Reality

Aug 20, 2024 | lexology.com | David Kalat

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyber-attacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Nervous System: Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Privacy

Aug 19, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat |Stephanie Wilkins

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Privacy

Aug 19, 2024 | lexology.com | David Kalat

The first attempt at offering commercially available email encryption software found its distributor charged with trafficking in illegal arms. The first commercially available email encryption software appeared online in 1991 as freeware uploaded by a computer programmer named Philip Zimmerman who wanted to enable ordinary computer users to safeguard their communications.
Nervous System: Dick Pick, GIRLS, and the History of Reality

Jul 8, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat |Stephanie Wilkins

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.
Nervous System: The ELIZA Effect

Jun 3, 2024 | law.com | David Kalat |Stephanie Wilkins

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember.