Scott Bradner

Articles by Scott Bradner

My tech-related wishes for the Obama administration

When he takes office next month, President-Elect Barack Obama should re-evaluate the copyright legislation and enforce

OPINION: Is ignorance of the law a design goal?

The American public has online access to federal court decisions, patent documents, congressional bills and copyright registrations. But what about free access to documents they need to go about their lives?

Not a Mac vs. PC rant

An ad campaign whose tagline is "life without walls" is not an ideal way to sell something called Windows

Get real about fantasy football and productivity

Challenger, Gray and Christmas's warning that online sports activites cost employers millions make for good publicity, but the numbers are dubious at best

A poster child for privacy invasion

Fairly or not, NebuAs has received overwhelmingly negative attention from the press and congress. But if the company was really serious about privacy, it would go to an opt-in model, says Network World columnist Scott Bradner

In search of broadband’s ‘third wire’

An environment of actual competition would provide a strong incentive for ISPs to provide neutral Internet services: As soon as one provider decided to interfere with what its customers could do on the Internet, its competitors would advertise that they don't do the same thing

Privacy can’t mean anonymity anymore

Protecting anonymity is a fight that can't be won, a high-rank U.S. intelligence official says

Think about the Net’s future, not its present

The founding principle of Internet technologies and Internet service was that Internet service was all about moving bits rather than supporting specific applications

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