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• On the post: DOJ To Court: Hey, Can We Postpone Tomorrow's Hearing? We Want To See If We Can Use This New Hole To Hack In

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2016 @ 09:31am

  Re:

  There is such a thing as a Declaratory Judgement, but I'm not sure if it could be used in this situation.

• On the post: Rhode Island Attorney General Pushes Yet Another Terrible Cybercrime Bill

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2016 @ 06:55am

  Re:

  Old battlecry: "I'm feeling threatened!" (bang bang bang)
  
  New battlecry: "I'm feeling harassed!" (bang bang bang)

• On the post: Senator Lindsey Graham Finally Talks To Tech Experts, Switches Side In FBI V. Apple Fight

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2016 @ 01:56pm

  Re: There's that word again.

  Totally agree, "war" is way overused and it's meaning has been badly diluted. Similarly, I'm sick of the word "terrorist". It is too grandiose a word for what amounts to nothing more than criminals.

• On the post: White House Begins To Realize It May Have Made A Huge Mistake In Going After Apple Over iPhone Encryption

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2016 @ 01:52pm

  Re:

  Where is the middle ground in math? Please show it to me. That "gray" area where compromise can be achieved if we just do the math differently. Maybe use long division instead of the new funky division? Please tell me.

• On the post: DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2016 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Re: Nook pulls out...

  golf clap

• On the post: Yes, Donald Trump Can Create Problems For Free Speech & The First Amendment

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 08:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Sad but true

  Because he is spewing racist nonsense. It's what Republicans crave.

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Third Party Doctrine A Perfectly 'Good Law;' No Warrants Needed To Obtain Cell Location Records

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2016 @ 07:41am

  Stupid controversy

  I'm so sick of this stupid controversy. People, it says right on the box of your phone that your location can and will be tracked! You agreed to being tracked when you opened the box!

• On the post: Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 12:09pm

  Re:

  Heck, even with encryption it is scary using money online! Most companies have embraced at least the minimum of encryption between here and there (SSL, TLS, etc), but still haven't grasped the need to keep their customer's data protected at rest. How many "big" websites have had to admit they were hacked and had customer data stolen?

• On the post: Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 12:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Foiling law enforcement is just a handy side-effect.
  
  But in all seriousness, no one ever said law enforcement was supposed to be easy. In fact, much of the process involved is to make sure that it is not easy. When law enforcement becomes too easy, you get what we've basically got now: a police state.

• On the post: CIA And NSA Directors Blame The Media For Terrorists Using Encryption

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 11:49am

  Got it

  So, not only are we not allowed to use encryption, we're not allowed to talk about it either.

• On the post: Copyright Office Decides To Rewrite Copyright Law Itself, Blesses A 'Making Available' Right That Isn't There

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2016 @ 11:26am

  New concepts

  Part of the problem, of course, is that the folks that wrote the original copyright laws did not (or could not) foresee a time when things didn't have to be "real" to exist. As much as I despise most things copyright, and I totally understand Mike's point here, the fact is that if the concept of digital files had been conceived then, they would likely have included it in the way the Copyright Office describes.
  
  However, since the Copyright Office has no problems at all with unlimited retroactive clawbacks, I say screw them and their interpretations.

• On the post: Techdirt Crowdsourcing: How Will The TSA Idiotically Respond To The Laptop Terror Bomb?

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2016 @ 11:57am

  Accidents happen

  The TSA will begin scanning laptops using the backscatter scanners.
  
  "What's that? It wiped your hard drive? So sorry, move along."

• On the post: NHL Streaming Service Descends Into Blackout Hell; NHL Threatens Anyone Trying To Circumvent Blackouts

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2016 @ 09:29am

  Re: Re: Re:

  But... but... they already GOT the revenue, the $160 for the service. I still don't understand.

• On the post: Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate — Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 02:08pm

  Re: Re: Taste your own medicine

  All of this has already happened. The NSA developed a backdoored encryption algorithm and then pushed ANSI, ISO, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to adopt it as a formal standard. The NSA also paid off several companies to utilize it as a basis in their encryption products. The fact that the everyday American doesn't know anything about this makes me a sad panda.

• On the post: Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate — Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 02:00pm

  Re: the risks of doing nothing

  You make a really good point actually. The fear of being seen to do "nothing" does seem to be a real thing for politicians. Even though nothing is what they've been accomplishing lately with all of their partisan bickering.

• On the post: Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate — Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 01:49pm

  Re: Sooo

  Hah, I promise I was typing my comment before I read yours. Glad that I'm not the only one that sees this debate as a form of dementia.

• On the post: States Wake Up, Realize AT&T Lobbyists Have Been Writing Awful Protectionist State Broadband Laws

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 08:12am

  Re: Oh, well in that case...

  ... world-class broadband infrastructure American consumers deserve and enjoy today.

  Yep, I thought my brain was going to asplode when I read that. I guess corporations really are people, because damn, AT&T has some big balls.

• On the post: Senator John McCain Weighs In On 'Going Dark' Debate — Insists That He Understands Cryptography Better Than Cryptographers

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 01:47pm

  Typical BS

  Top cryptologists have reasonably cautioned that “new law enforcement requirements are likely to introduce unanticipated, hard to detect security flaws,” but this is not the end of the analysis. We recognize there may be risks to requiring such access, but we know there are risks to doing nothing.

  Typical BS politician statement, "there may be risks to requiring such access"... No, there are *absolutely* risks, no "may" about it, which begins with a very strong possibility, and increases over time to near certainty, that the encryption backdoor will be discovered and used by criminals and other adversaries.
  
  Why can't they get this through their heads? What dementia affects career politicians that they don't get that OUR ENEMIES will be able to read our most closely guarded secrets if they get their way?
  
  /rant

• On the post: Congress Might Actually Be Moving Forward On Fixing Outdated Email Privacy Law!

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2016 @ 07:29am

  Re:

  The later (up to and including never), the better.

• On the post: Congress Might Actually Be Moving Forward On Fixing Outdated Email Privacy Law!

  

  Almost Anonymous ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2016 @ 07:28am

  Re: Yeah, Right

  Yep, my thoughts exactly. Instead of 180 days, email will be considered "abandoned" after 24 hours.

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