J.R.McHale

Ed Felten of Princeton and the “Freedom to Tinker” blog addressing Senator Clinton’s sort-of attack on online anonymity: “This is a common pattern: Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. (Paul Ohm calls this ‘Felten’s Third Law’.) It’s easy to reject non-solutions in your own area because you have the knowledge to recognize why they will fail; but there must be a solution lurking somewhere in the unexplored wilderness of the other area.”