I am interested in technology policy as it applies to freedom of speech:
copyright law, cryptography law and policy, intellectual property,
and scholarly inquiry. I have also studied and taught on issues relating
to voting machines.
My
blog at Freedom-to-Tinker
2013 articles
Oral arguments in NJ voting-machines lawsuit appeal
Ed Felten elected to National Academy
2012 articles
Tech@FTC
Copyright in Scholarly Publishing, 2012 Edition
Modest Proposals for Academic Authors
Contract hacking and community organizing
Broken Ballots
Oral Arguments 12/4 in NJ Voting-Machine Lawsuit
NJ Lt. Governor invites voters to submit invalid ballots
Voting machine lawsuit, oral arguments, venue change
2011 articles
Monitoring
all the electrical and hydraulic appliances in your house
Seals
on NJ voting machines, 2004-2008
Seals
on NJ voting machines, October-December 2008
The
trick to defeating tamper-indicating seals
What
an expert on seals has to say
Seals
on NJ voting machines, March 2009
Seals
on NJ voting machines, as of 2011
Why
seals can't secure elections
NJ
election cover-up
Did
NJ election officials fail to respect court order to improve security of
elections?
Will
the NJ Attorney General investigate the NJ Attorney General?
What
happens when the printed ballot face doesn't match the electronic ballot
definition?
Open
Access to Scholarly Publications at Princeton
Corruption
Bureau assigns fox to guard henhouse
Appeal
filed in NJ voting-machines lawsuit
2010 articles
No
Warrant Necessary to Seize Your Laptop
Did
a denial-of-service attack cause the stock-market "flash crash?"
Did
a denial-of-service attack cause the flash crash? Probably
not.
Court
permits release of unredacted report on AVC Advantage
NJ
court permits release of post-trial briefs in voting case
Unpeeling
the mystique of tamper-indicating seals
2009 articles
Optical-scan
voting extremely accurate in Minnesota
NJ
Voting-machine trial update
NJ
Voting-machine trial: Plaintiffs' witnesses
NJ
Voting-machine Trial: Defense Witnesses
Thoughtcrime Experiments
Intractability
of Financial Derivatives
2008 articles
Election
Machinery blog
Judge
Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
Report
on the Sequioa AVC Advantage
Independent
Voters Disenfranchised in Louisiana
Louisiana
Re-enfranchises Independent Voters
Voting
Machines are Silent in Princeton Today
Security
Seals on AVC Advantage Voting Machines are Easily
Defeated
2007 articles
AT&T
Explains Guilt by Association
Eavesdropping
as a Telecom Profit Center
On academic publishing in the 21st century:
Digital Rights Management and Free Speech
Self-help getting to the New System, a short article I wrote studying how
Computer Scientists and Political Scientists distribute
their own papers through their web sites, October 2007.
I advised the undergraduate research of Alex Halderman,
"Evaluating New Copy-Prevention Techniques for Audio CDs",
which he presented at
DRM 2002: 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management.
My court declaration in
the Felten v. RIAA
case. Filed in United States District Court, Trenton, NJ, August 13, 2001.
The Speech is a Machine, freshman seminar course, taught Spring 2001.
Universal Studios v. Reimerdes - Appeal Brief of Amici Curiae. Harold Abelson, Andrew W. Appel, et al. Filed in United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
January 23, 2001.
My court declaration (local copy) in the
Universal Studios v. Reimerdes
DVD case. April 2000.
Technological Access Control Interferes with
Noninfringing Scholarship, by Andrew W. Appel and Edward W. Felten.
February 17, 2000.
Submitted in response to the
Copyright
Office's request for comments
on what classes of works should be
exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibition on
circumventing technological measures that control access to
copyrighted works.
Also published in Communications of the ACM 43 (9) 21-23,
September 2000.
Antitrust
I testified as an expert witness in the Microsoft antitrust
case.
Cryptography
My court declaration in the
Junger cryptography case. September 1997.
In an opinion dated April 4, 2000, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit holds in
Junger v. Daley:
Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange
of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is
protected by the First Amendment.
My
court declaration in the
Bernstein
cryptography case. March 1996.
In an opinion dated May 6, 1999, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holds:
In light of these considerations, we conclude that
encryption software, in its source code form and as
employed by those in the field of cryptography, must be
viewed as expressive for First Amendment purposes, and thus
is entitled to the protections of the prior restraint doctrine.
Scholarly publishing
Security and document compatibility for electronic
refereeing. Andrew W. Appel. CBE Views 20(1), 1997, published by the
Council of Biology Editors.
How
to Edit a Journal by E-mail. Andrew W. Appel.
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 82-99, January
1996.
