Broadband Politics

Posted by Richard Bennett

Cory Doctorow, the Andrea Dworkin of civil liberties, has threatened a parody site with legal action: He can dish it out, but he can’t take it. Well-known “copyfighter” and sci-fi novelist Cory Doctorow can sure complain when the MPAA and RIAA try to enforce their members’ copyrights, but the instant someone infringes on Cory’s copyrights [...]

Posted by Richard Bennett

So Aruba and Trapeze have decided not to roll over and play dead while Cisco tramples the wireless switch industry: Aruba Wireless Networks and Trapeze Networks Inc. submitted SLAPP (Secure Light Access Point Protocol) to a group in the Internet Engineering Task Force known as CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points). The group [...]