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IT WASN’T a telegram that informed me about Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, but an email. A century-and-a-half of engineering ingenuity has brought us from Morse telegraphy to the content-stuffed global network available via a broadband socket near you. But is this express train of ingenuity about to fly off the tracks?
Zittrain thinks so. He’s a cyberlaw scholar at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, who argues that increasingly ineffective internet security will drive us away from using PCs to access it – with chilling ramifications for…
