If you work with me, you know that I am kind of a stickler about meeting agendas. I’ve gotten so (in)famous for it that one of my colleagues actually purchased me a plaque for my desk that says “no agenda, no meeting.” If you’re not already…
Back in August, my colleague Oliver Haimson and I submitted comments to the “Oversight Board” (an organization that Facebook, now Meta, created to allow users to appeal content moderation decisions). Although I have personally been somewhat…
On June 15, 2021, in solidarity with a number of my sex working comrades, I offered oral testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary in favor of decriminalizing common nightwalking and against the Nordic model (also know…
I recently published an essay responding to They, Them, and __Theirs, an article on non-binary inclusion. (Yes, the title is a reference to a The Prodigy song.) “Many gender-neutral restrooms and locker rooms are behind locked doors. Not in…
I changed my mind about bringing baked goods into the office. Twice. I haven’t always had strong opinions on this complex and important topic. But in 2012, I brought in cookies for a meeting. I was nominally in charge of a large group of fo…
Last August, Jon Hanson asked me, as an alum, to give a talk to a group of Harvard Law School 1Ls about “life in the law.” It was one of the hardest talks I’ve ever given, because it’s some of the subject matter that’s still the rawest for
Computer Security for Lawyers is now out in the Green Bag! The Green Bag is one of my favorite legal publications, and I’m honored that a journal of entertaining things chose to publish my paper. Computer Security Lawyers is a paper about s…
I have a new draft paper out! It’s called Computer Security Tools and Concepts for Lawyers. I wrote this paper because I often find that lawyers outside of tech spaces didn’t understand fundamental computer security concepts, like what encr…
Somehow they all use she/her pronouns or a feminine voice. I don’t have a firm conclusion on this yet - I just think this is a very odd trend. Will be added to as I find more or as people suggest more. Cortana, from Microsoft. Source: https…
Last week, I organized a letter in support of Baby Blue, Carl Malamud and Chris Sprigman’s open citation manual. Over 165 students, faculty and staff signed on in less than a week. For posterity, the letter is available here. I also wrote a…
Steven Levy can write compellingly about deeply technical subjects. He makes the history of cryptography come alive in Crypto. But god, I hate the way he writes about women. To be fair, Crypto is better than Hackers in that there is more th…
Sarah Jeong and I have an op-ed in WIRED about how a proposal floated in a working group at ICANN could have profound consequences for people being harassed online. Check it out here. Along with other activists, we have created a coalition