Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

Internet Society Pulse

The Carriers Would Not Come, So the Colville Tribes Built Their Own Network | ISOC Pulse

One more provider in a market with one Internet Service Provider changes little. The first ISP in an unserved area changes the cost of everyday economic life.

CNET

Students buck DMCA threat - CNET

Voting systems company Diebold sends cease-and-desist letters after its internal e-mail correspondence is posted on the Web. Now the EFF and some college students are fighting back.

The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom

The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.

Asian Angle | SpaceX’s Starlink blackout punishes Myanmar civilians, not just cybercriminals

An estimated 13 million people – nearly a quarter of Myanmar’s population – rely on Starlink for internet access.

Internet Society Pulse

Concentration of Government Web Services Raises Questions About Underlying Drivers | ISOC Pulse

Measurements of government web service consolidation reveal differences between countries that can help to inform appropriate policy responses.

TechCrunch

Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver's license numbers | TechCrunch

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

Recovering a Remote Mac Mini

A UPS was the easy part. Getting my remote Mac mini through a longer outage and back to a usable development session took a little more engineering.

Internet Society

Policy Brief: VPN Restrictions - Internet Society

Policymakers face real challenges concerning online content, but restricting the use of VPNs does not solve underlying issues; instead, it weakens user protection, creates new risks, and often proves ineffective.

ESA Space Environment Report 2026

alexgaynor.net

You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse · Alex Gaynor

A Small Bake-Off for Unreliable GitHub Scheduling

A late scheduled post led me to compare GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Cron. The deployments were about equally fast. The schedulers were not.

Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer

Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.

Internet Society

Defending the Open Internet: Why Italy’s Content Delivery Network Decision Matters - Internet Society

The Internet Society has filed a statement of intervention supporting Netflix’s appeal against Italy’s Resolution 207.

Internet Society Pulse

When the Lights Went Out: What the Iberian Blackout Taught Us About Internet Resilience | ISOC Pulse

Study shows how traffic to core Internet infrastructure during the Iberian blackout dropped by up to 70%, but did not stop.

Center for Democracy and Technology

CDT Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall

In this Alumni Spotlight, we hear from Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, former Chief Technologist at CDT and now Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society, who reflects on his work advancing a safer and more trustworthy Internet, the importance of bringing technical expertise into technology policy, and how his experience at CDT shaped his approach to leadership, advocacy, and the public interest.

What policy makers need to know about AI safety and security

Internet Society Pulse

Measuring Data Center Growth | ISOC Pulse

Since July 2020, 136 countries have registered new data centers in PeeringDB, 21 of which are the first in their country.

MyJoyOnline

ISOC Ghana urges policy reforms to expand community networks and bridge rural digital divide - MyJoyOnline

The Internet Society (ISOC) Ghana Chapter has called for stronger policy and regulatory reforms to support the development of community networks as a sustainable solution to expanding internet access in underserved and rural Ghana.

How We Built a Data Warehouse Using ClickHouse

When the scripts that generate the data for letsencrypt.org/stats broke yet again, we decided to retire them rather than repair them. Let’s Encrypt issues six to ten million certificates each day, producing a large volume of logs that keeps growing. It became increasingly time-consuming and difficult to answer questions about our own issuance like “how many certificates use the ‘shortlived’ profile.” Using raw logs, this requires finding, parsing and extracting relevant portions of loglines. Que

Project Syndicate

AI Is Only as Trustworthy as the Internet

Sally Wentworth notes that technologies spread and develop faster when the infrastructure they rely on is open.

At-Large Directors for the Wikimedia Endowment Board

Remote

The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

Media Defence

Upcoming Webinar | Disconnected Justice: The Non-Implementation of Internet Shutdown Judgments - Media Defence

Join the Webinar Disconnected Justice to explore the impact of internet shutdowns on dissent and information flow globally.

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion: 2nd Circuit

A federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion.

Just Security

Reinvention Blueprint No. 3: To Unmake the Surveillance State, Rethink the Privacy Act

In an age of limitless access to data, the Privacy Act of 1974 urgently needs expanded coverage and independent oversight.