http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c224 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:49:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c224 and wins. If the DoJ refuses to go after them, it shows a definite double standard (weev is a troll/AT&T is more important that TerraCom). That and the court battle would be epic, and due to the more sympathetic defendants has a better shot at appeal then weev's case.

Also, as evidenced by the DoJ subpoenas of AP and FoxNews' phone records, the one surefire way to make sure "how abusive these laws are" gets into the goldfish-sized attention span of the professional news media is to use those laws against the professional news media.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1339 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:49:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1339
Heres a question, why dont you have a record now? you used a biological weapon and potentially put anothers life in jeopardy. You should be at the police station asking to be locked up.... Or is this another cause of you dont deserve it but everybody else does... which is it sunshine...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c210 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:48:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c210
OOTB you are the personification of troll=stupidity]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/06034223155/quack-professor-releases-dumbest-violent-video-game-theory-ever.shtml#c469 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:47:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/06034223155/quack-professor-releases-dumbest-violent-video-game-theory-ever.shtml#c469 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1202 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:47:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1202
Prenda lawyers send out letters in an attempt to make cash.
Judge at one of the cases smells something fishy and, after many shenanigans, asks the Prenda team for their side of the tale, to try and defend themselves.
They say no.
They say they won't talk.

This is the end of due process for them, at least where they're concerned. They had ample opportunity to set the record straight, but willingly and knowingly said they won't talk. Therefore, the only evidence before Judge Wright and other judges, the only evidence before them that they could look at and rule on, was evidence that pointed to Prenda's guilt. By pleading the fifth, by not talking, Team Prenda didn't enter anything to contest that.

I'm not a lawyer and I'm able to understand that much. What about you?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c197 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:47:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c197
"While the reporters claim to have discovered the data with a simple Google search, the firms' lawyer claims they used "automated" means..."

Referencing the company Google and then the telco firm without the name can be confusing. High school level reading skills are required to properly understand that without having to read it two or three times.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c189 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c189 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3843 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:45:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/10233423003/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it.shtml#c3843
Normal sexual experimentation (with peers) begins as early as eight years old. By twelve, girls are swooning over boy celebrities. By fourteen, and within your local schools, plenty of girls are having relationships with college boys (and, interestingly, not so much with their peers). Some of these young men will get arrested, prosecuted, branded permanently as pedophiles, and jailed.

Our current laws don't cover the range of normal sexual activity of young people, but that's not going to stop them from being active, any more than anti-gay laws are going to stop gays, or outlawing abortions is going to abortions (or as has been statistically shown, reduce them at all).

But at least we aren't burning our women for dishonoring their families by getting raped, yes? Progress!

Because the US is freaked out about sex, we don't have a very good grasp of what should be acceptable. And our society still features a preponderance of misogyny.

On the other hand, more teens are waiting before becoming sexually active, but mostly in those regions that have more relaxed attitudes about teen sexual activity, and bother to educate their kids comprehensively about sexual health and birth control.

I don't know all the correlations, but so it is. As for Ms. Hunt, it's circumstances such as hers and her partner's (who is also guilty of having sex with a minor, and could be charged as such) for which Romeo and Juliet laws have been implemented. Florida's is just a weaker variant, but Florida notoriously freaks out about sex in general, so it wouldn't surprise me if some hanging judge makes an example of this couple.

In the meantime, what does sex with a minor have to do with the Nintendo thing above?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c174 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:45:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c174
Going after the reports is basically the following happening.
-Person A compiles a list of over 100,000 customers and their personal data
-Person B gets hired by Person A to manage the data, and leaves the data lying out in the open where anyone can grab it.
-Person C finds the data lying around and grabs it and dumps it in a public area where anyone can still read it, but it's in a place with much more traffic.
-Person D finds the dumped personal data, reports it to Person A, and gets charged with hacking.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c158 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:44:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c158 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1323 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:44:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1323 Stupidest adolescent navel-gazing comment thread here in a long long time. I don't think anyone commenting has actually been hit with a water balloon. Hint: they hurt. A LOT. Yes that's assault.

Still traumatized by high school, eh Nancyboy? You must have been a regular crime victim in school. Assaults (wedgies); kidnappings (stuffed in gym locker) robbery (lunch money). You may wish to consider that your opinion of what constitutes assault can all be traced back to the fact that you are a douchenozzle.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c147 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c147 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c140 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c140
2nd point: "firms' lawyer claims" is all I see of the "threat", and yet Mike implies charges are imminent. So far this is just another of his panics.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1224 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/18364622931/ma-teen-arrested-held-without-bail-posting-supposed-terrorist-threat-facebook.shtml#c1224 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1307 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:42:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1307
Where's that zero tolerance policy? Oh it's not "on the internet" so it's OK lol]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c118 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:42:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c118
Just this morning in a cursory review of a prospective audit client's online presence, I did a Google search and discovered over 1,000 PDFs of customer invoices they blocked via robots.txt file but since Google now includes URLs of robots blocked files and slaps a "description not available due to robots instruction" that shit is wide open to anyone on the web, no hacking needed.

Companies need to be held accountable for their massive security failings and Google needs to be held accountable as well, even though that shit should have been completely blocked and behind a secure firewall.

The fact that this situation involved a couple reporters gives me little comfort in the notion that asshat companies might eventually be held accountable for causing such massive failings.

We need a comprehensive overhaul of the system, one NOT determined by congress or lobbyists. One that severely penalizes the asshats that cause the problem and rewards the ones who expose it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c94 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c94
Vcare seems to be one the crying foul, not Google.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c383 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c383
Right.... of course they would be okay with something *similar*..

As to the NYT's themselves they have no legal leg whatsoever to stand on in this matter there have been numerous precedents of demo's of other persons works to explain what the 'new' thing can do better and more efficiently..

Basically the NYT is suffering from Butthurtitis and the NYT lawyers need to get their heads out of theirs]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1294 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1294 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c90 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:17 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c90