Matt BlazeDec 29, 2022

Several people in my mentions confused about the legal and technical differences between content and metadata in communications systems.

This 2016 paper by my colleagues (@SteveBellovin, Susan Landau, Stephanie Pell, and me) probably won't make you any less confused, but will at least make you feel better about it.

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v30/30HarvJLTech1.pdf

Show threadZate 🦘🇦🇺Dec 29, 2022
@mattblaze @SteveBellovin be honest, did you keep adjusting the margins in on that until it went over 100 pages? heh.
Show threadMatt Blaze
@zate @SteveBellovin We made it as short as we could.
Dec 29, 2022 at 8:36pmWeb
Show threadSteve BellovinDec 29, 2022
@mattblaze @zate And we cut 10 pages that were already written.
More to your point: we didn't do the final typesetting or pick the page size. What we submitted was 85 pages long, because it was formatted for 8½ x 11" paper, not the smaller page size that the journal uses.
Show threadMatthew HardemanDec 29, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @zate apologies for the long letter, didn’t have time to write a short one. 😄
Show threadZate 🦘🇦🇺Dec 29, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze heh. I am sorry, I was trying to be funny. the doc is awesome :)
Show threadSteve BellovinDec 29, 2022
@zate @mattblaze Glad you liked it! And yes, I realized that you were joking—but I was curious about how long we thought it was…