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On the post: Security Researcher Held In Jail For 8 Months Because He Wrote An Angry Blog Post, Released For Now

V ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2017 @ 05:57am

Is it time?

Is it time we mention the N word? Seriously, at what point does the DoJ start looking like jack-booted brown shirts?

This BS political correctness junk needs to be put in it's place. A single contact IS NOT stalking. Just like, asking a woman for drinks ONCE is not sexual harassment.

It's NORMAL HUMAN INTERACTION.

On the post: Ajit Pai Attacked Hollywood & Silicon Valley Because Even Republicans Are Against His Net Neutrality Plan

V ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2017 @ 11:43am

Are you serious Clark?

I'm not sure what your point was since both Hollywood and Silicon Valley are about as liberal democrat as you can get. Hollywood republican is nearly an oxymoron and silicon valley bigwigs - Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc are all liberal democrats.

If you would have had some contrast, it would have made more sense... like "Ajit Pai attacked Hollywood and Big Oil" or "Ajit Pai attacked Hollywood and Deep South" but alas, your premise is completely flawed - which seems to happen whenever you shift from intellectual property issues to politcal hackery.

On the post: New York AG Provides Tool To Help You Check If Your Name Was Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality

V ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2017 @ 09:51am

Are you kidding me?

Please don't pretend to be ignorant of the ways of various hackers.

Hacking 101

1) Scrap names/emails from various sites
2) Run script to use emails/names with random comments

Any 10-year-old script kiddy can have this up in about 10 minutes.

Don't pretend there's some vast conspiracy THIS time because it's against something your're for. This happens ALL the time.

The ONLY remarkable thing is why ANYONE believes ANYTHING on the internet. Especially ANYTHING with a submission form.

Personally, I think the government should either stay away from the internet or declare it a utility and regulate it like they do all of the other utilities.

Unfortunately, both actions have goods and bads.

On the post: Epic Sues 14 Year Old It Accuses Of Cheating In Videogames After He Counternotices a DMCA On His YouTube Video

V ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2017 @ 04:51am

Great Defense!

Wow... so their defense... they're inept?! That's great! I want to use that if I go to court.

Your honor, I'm not guilty of violating the law because... I'm lazy and stupid.

And since the kids name was already out there, what the F' is "redacting" it going to change? Sure the mother wrote a letter... AFTER they put her minor child's name into public record ILLEGALLY.

On the post: FBI Leaves It To Journalists To Notify US Government Targets Of Russian Hacking

V ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2017 @ 12:07pm

Misleading

Once again, misleading title. The fact of the matter is, there are agents of every government CONSTANTLY trying to hack us and every other government.

I'm not surprised they didn't notify people however, their general policy is not to comment on an ongoing investigation. My HOPE is, they were monitoring those accounts, trying to track down the culprits but I have little faith in the FBI, or any other government agency.

On the post: NY Attorney General Investigating Why Dead People Supported The FCC's Attack On Net Neutrality

V ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2017 @ 07:38am

Dead People

I didn't realize the zombie apocalypse would involve political activism.

On the post: Algorithmic Videos Are Making YouTube Unsuitable For Young Children, And Google's 'Revenue Architecture' Is To Blame

V ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2017 @ 05:31am

Am I right?

Am I right in assuming people are complaining because they don't want to be REAL parents? Leaving your child unattended with the internet is only slightly less irresponsible than leaving your child alone with a loaded gun.

But lazy parents don't want to actually PARENT their children and rely on technology - which can be fooled - to "police" what their children can see.

And we wonder why snowflakes have taken over the world...

On the post: Don't Cheer For The Twitter Employee Who Deleted Donald Trump's Account

V ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2017 @ 06:07am

Trust?

Trust No One Mr Mulder. Truer now than it was then.

At some point, the government will classify things like Twitter and Facebook as public utilities and regulate them because of things like this.

Let's face it, I'm guessing more people use twitter than use hard lines and hard lines (phone lines) are public utilities.

The fact that some nameless contractor has that sort of power should SCARE people. Not just from a twitter standpoint... but Google search results... facebook pages... youtube videos... etc. One person can decided your fate. And if they CAN post as you... think of the chaos.

Imagine if some political hack wannabe at twitter decided to tweet something like "Tomorrow we're going to nuke Rocket Man (North Korea)."

Imagine what could happen.

On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

V ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2017 @ 07:19am

Don't know him but...

Google and Facebook are ultra left leaning companies and they make no secret of this, right down to rolling over on their bellies for Chinese censorship.

The fact that they treat him different than their liberal, left wing "comrades" should surprise absolutely no one.

The fact that they are a private company, means they can pretty much do whatever they want, including censor anyone for any reason.

On the post: New DOJ Policy Restricts Use Of Warrant/Subpoena Gag Orders

V ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2017 @ 08:59am

FAIL

It's still a government fail. This should be coded in LAW, not a "binding" policy. Congress has failed this country and failed to protect basic Constitutional rights.

On the post: Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn't Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption

V ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2017 @ 09:06am

Really?

"I'm honestly unsure what to make of that argument..."

It's actually pretty clear. Those are the arguments of someone who supports a tyrranical, all-powerful government where rights are "GIVEN" by the government - and when something is GIVEN, it can be taken away, seemingly for any reason THEY find legit... Terror, think of the children, easier for law enforcement, because it's Tuesday...

On the post: ICE Now Calling Aiding Unaccompanied Minors 'Human Trafficking' To Bypass Sanctuary City Laws

V ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 05:23am

Keep Your Left Wing Politics Out

Keep your left wing politics out of the blog. Geez.

Definition of human trafficking:

"the action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another, typically for the purposes of forced labour or commercial sexual exploitation."

While it's TYPICALLY for forced labor or sexual exploitation, it is not EXCLUSIVELY for those reasons.

If you AID, in any way, the transportation of an individual who is in this country illegally, that is human trafficking, no matter what you overly sensitive left-wing mind tries to trick you into believing.

Support LEGAL immigration. That's the REAL solution to these issues.

On the post: Federal Judge Says Indiana's Vehicle Forfeiture Laws Are Unconstitutional

V ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 05:31am

ASS-U-ME...

Yes, good news... assuming law enforcement actually obeys and stops seizing cars.. you know... "in good faith".

On the post: Appeals Court Tells Patent Trolls' Favorite Judge He Can't Just Ignore The Supreme Court To Keep Patent Cases In Texas

V ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2017 @ 04:59am

You have to wonder...

You have to wonder if the judge was getting kick backs or something. Otherwise, why bend (break?) the law by keeping cases that would otherwise not be in your jurisdiction on your docket?

On the post: WhatsApp Reportedly Rejected UK Government Demand For Encryption Backdoor

V ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2017 @ 07:20am

No... please... no...

No, don't force WhatsApp to pull the app from the UK marketing because then terrorists will NEVER be able to get it...

Oh wait... of course they will.

On the post: Senator Blumenthal Happy That SESTA Will Kill Small Internet Companies

V ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 05:45am

Not Shocking Either

On the tail of my NY Times columnist who UNSHOCKINGLY didn't get technology details correct, it is SO MUCH less shocking that moronic technomorons who are elected constantly make insanely bad laws because they haven't even the most basic knowledge of all things technological.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. You get elected, you have to take a technology test. Depending on what sections you fail means you cannot vote on bills falling into those categories. Constituents don't like that? Don't elect technomorons.

Same thing with Judges. You get appointed to the bench, you take a technology test, a copyright test, a patent test, etc. You fail, you can't rule on any of those cases.

The test would be updated each year to reflect technology changes and everyone would have to take it each year. Fail, and you don't get to do anything related for another year.

On the post: Shockingly, NY Times Columnist Is Totally Clueless About The Internet

V ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 05:38am

Really? Shockingly?

Really? You actually used Shockingly? How about

"As Expected, NY Times Columnist Is Totally Clueless About The Internet"

or

"As Usual, NY Times Columnist Is Totally Clueless About The Internet"

In general, media (ESPECIALLY TV and MOVIES) generally have NO CLUE about anything internet and especially get it wrong when they try to portray hacking or programming - Swordfish anyone... Hackers anyone?!

I am NEVER shocked when the media gets things wrong about the internet - how it works, where it came from (Not Al Gore!) or what REAL benefits it provides.

The only thing that is truly shocking... is that fact that you were shocked.

On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics

V ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2017 @ 10:22am

Note to the wise

Mail your electronics to your destination in New Zealand and carry a burner phone for searching.

On the post: DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling

V ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2017 @ 11:03am

Not as worried

I'm really not as worried about this as some other things. I assume that if I'm leaving the country, they have my face for the passport anyway.

If it's a domestic flight, I assume that my likeness is captured dozens, if not hundreds, of times through security cameras.

As far as not keeping faces of US citizens... yah... right. You mean, sort of like, them not keeping the conversations of US citizens in surveillance of foreign citizens. Because that NEVER happens... oh wait.

On the post: Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue

V ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2017 @ 09:52am

Courts...

Really? You'd expect a court to have any interest or knowledge in ANYTHING technical?

The judicial systems needs an overall. It is so completely outdated that it is almost irrelevant.

How can a judge (or panel of judges) who do not and cannot understand the technology being used even HOPE to be able to pass judgement on anything involving that technology.

They can't... and yet... they do.

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