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• The New Studio
• 110 days ago
• I have a bet with a colleague. It's a very serious bet with the highest possible stakes (No, silly, not our immortal souls. A bottle of good Scotch). My colleague thinks that either movies or music will still be sold with Digital Rights Management in 2012. I, on the other hand, know DRM will be long gone by then. It should be gone now, because it doesn't work. But that's not why it will be ...

• What rough beast, its hour come round at last.... ?
• 110 days ago
• Life is good has entered into a consent decree with the US Federal Trade Commission to settle claims that its assurances of privacy protection to consumers were false. Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP's excellent Privacy and Security Law blog has coverage of the decree here. Corporate counsel and Chief Information Security Officers need to pay very close attention to this decree; it lays the groundwo ...

• Reed's Jazz and Supper Club: Hail and Farewell
• 138 days ago
• Christmas is a mean season in the restaurant business; it's when the landlords raise the rent. Reed's closed two weeks ago, on a Tuesday. On the Monday I was at the bar, talking to the friends I've made there over the years, and enjoying a perfect Imperia Vodka martini (up, dry, shaken, with a twist. As it should be.) The next afternoon there was a little sign on the door with the bad news ...

• The 2007 CECI Award
• 186 days ago
• It's time once again for the event the whole blogosphere awaits with breathless anticipation - the presentation of the annual CECI award! Once again this year the judges (me) have sifted through the year's dross and spent Guy Fawkes' Day mulling over who's made the greatest contribution to clear thinking about identity, privacy, security, and risk. As I made my decision I've had a few things o ...

• Turn Off Your Flash
• 196 days ago
• You're at a party. Or maybe walking on the beach at sunset. Your eye is attracted to a scene. You take out your camera and look through the viewfinder (or at the LCD). You adjust the framing, and, trembling with excitement, you push the shutter button. You examine the results. They suck. What happened? I'll tell you what happened: your flash spoiled the shot. What you saw was interestin ...