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• On the post: Vox Admits It Got Section 230 Wrong, Fixes Its Mistake

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 08:07am

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  There's some "desire to mislead" in simple bias, but for the most part the trouble is with attempting to turn items into Sensational! True! Reports! I get it - sensationalism sells. A Supreme Court decision is always "news", but, for the most part, those decisions aren't shattering - like the Apple one reported here. If it was reported as "SCOTUS makes technical decision to allow Standing" not many people would bother reading it. If they report it as Amazing! Political! Upset! Trump! Appointed! Justice! Votes! AGAINST! Trump! You get a lot more eyeballs following the story. Seriously, the sensationalism has really been overdone the last few years. It's like having every item read aloud by William Shatner...

• On the post: Vox Admits It Got Section 230 Wrong, Fixes Its Mistake

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 08:02am

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  He doesn't need quality. He just posts some inflammatory nonsense and... ...800 people INSIST on not simply flagging and moving on, but reply multiple times to his inanity, hijacking the entire comments section. Look at the Comments over the last few days. Maybe, MAYBE ten or twenty about the article. The other hundred are long chains of troll bait responses. If only flagging collapsed all the replies along with the original troll...

• On the post: Axon Hints It May Ruin A City's Credit Rating For Cancelling Its Contract For Body Cam Footage Storage

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 07:54am

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  More troublesome is Chain of Custody. What they're storing is EVIDENCE. You can't contract that away.

• On the post: Pai FCC 'Solution' To Nation's Great Robocall Apocalypse? More Meetings

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 15 May, 2019 @ 07:51am

  I'm wondering...

  ...if Pai is stalling not because of money, but because his neutering of the FCC has some fine print that removes even THIS kind of authority from their purview.

• On the post: The Ultimate Bad Take: Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky Thinks A WhatsApp Vulnerability Proves End To End Encryption Is Useless

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 01:56pm

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  My point to him, and in regards to this article, is that the amount of man-hours and tech required to open the safe or intercept and decrypt an end to end encrypted data transfer means... ...If you have a legitimate worry about it, you're already under a microscope by the NSA, CIA, FBI, and every other TLA group. NOTHING is secure if you've got the money, manpower, etc. to unsecure it. You take reasonable precautions - enough that your neighbors can't see or read it, and, preferably, that the local law enforcement can't easily break.

• On the post: Chris Hughes Helped Get Obama Elected, But Now That Facebook Helped Elect Trump, He Wants To Break It Up?

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 11:00am

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  Well, if they'd used his birth name it'd have been MyBS, which while far more accurate... I'm old enough to remember when "#" was called "pound". Still shake my head every time someone mentions #MeToo...

• On the post: GDPR Concerns Temporarily Result In The Removal Of Trash Cans From Ireland Post Office

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 09:55am

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  There's more to the decisions. Again, and I know the AC's and Jhon hate this word... LIABILITY. Lawyers go after the biggest money. If YOU get my personal data from a trash bin at the post office, a lawyer could make a good legal case that the Post Office is liable because they didn't secure it. YES, it's trash. But unless it's on Public Property (PO's are Government Property), it's not considered "abandoned". That's why the cops can't search a trash can on the house side of a gate without a warrant, but can if it's on the street side of that gate. If you consider it as a liability to suit decision, it was a good one. The second decision broke the chain of liability, so you get to throw your personal information into collection bins at the PO in Ireland again...

• On the post: GDPR Concerns Temporarily Result In The Removal Of Trash Cans From Ireland Post Office

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 08:29am

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  Possibly. That said, I'm all for wildly bizarre but technically correct "interpretations" of idiotic laws which point out just how idiotic they are.

• On the post: GDPR Concerns Temporarily Result In The Removal Of Trash Cans From Ireland Post Office

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 07:10am

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  Does the GDPR specifically state "electronic" or "computer" data collection? It's data collection. A bit "old school", but still data collection. Law of Unintended Consequences biting them in the ass.

• On the post: GDPR Concerns Temporarily Result In The Removal Of Trash Cans From Ireland Post Office

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 06:07am

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  Pre-internet, "trashing" was a highly successful method of data collection. Still is.

• On the post: The Ultimate Bad Take: Bloomberg's Leonid Bershidsky Thinks A WhatsApp Vulnerability Proves End To End Encryption Is Useless

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 14 May, 2019 @ 12:38pm

  Reminds me....

  ...of a friend who discovered it was possible to open his fancy electronic safe if you had access to the battery compartment.

  YES, it can be done. On a bench, with several million dollars of gear and a lot of computing time.

  I told him that if he was worried about that level of "hacking", he's already so screwed he shouldn't worry about it.

• On the post: Miami Plastic Surgeon Sues Two Patients For Negative Reviews After He Had Them Sign Illegal Non Disparagement Agreements

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 01:30pm

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  If they're saying "I'm Fred Ishkabibble, and I wasn't satisfied with the job Dr Boob...." and it's a REAL patient, identifying them isn't a big deal. If it's "I'm not going to use my real name, but Dr Boob...", chances are it's just Jhon looking to cause trouble.

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 12:43pm

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  Easier to convict on conspiracy. Since it involved the a-bomb, it justified the death penalty. They were guilty of three major crimes - treason, espionage, and conspiracy to commit said espionage. They were all capitol crimes at that time. Are you suggesting the court go after the most difficult to prove crime when all have the same penalty?

• On the post: San Francisco PD Raids Journalist's Home To Find Out Which One Of Its Cops Leaked An Autopsy Report

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 11:50am

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  Obstruction rarely flies in this kind of thing. They should have claimed "receipt" or "possession" of stolen property, Judges don't have a problem signing warrants with those kind of charges. And it pretty much nullifies "source protection" when it's phrased as "who did you obtain the stolen items from?". As to autopsy reports, yes, they're generally public record, you need to file for a copy. And wait just about forever, since if there's no Subpoena attached, they don't give it a high priority. But that's been blurred a bit around the country, as they're performed (usually) by the County, and the hierarchy can get confusing. Do you want the Autopsy Report, the Forensic Report, the Coroner's Report, the Medical Examiner's Report, or the Attending Pathologist's Report? Just did a quick search for the generic "autopsy report"" "Autopsy reports are generally public records. There are exceptions for (1) deaths from natural causes not referred to the coroner and (2) reports pertaining to criminal litigation. others as directed by court order or subpoena." That's generic - it varies by state and county, but they all pretty much follow those guidelines.

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 10:14am

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  Which is why the Rosenbergs were tried, convicted, and executed on charges of "Conspiracy to Commit Espionage".

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 09:03am

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  I remember everyone standing in their front yard when that black Ford Galaxy slowly rolled through town, waiting to see what house it stopped at. So you're saying the US shouldn't have entered either of the World Wars? We should have stayed out of them, and by doing so "win" by not having all the items you discussed happen to us?

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 09:00am

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  Can't, blind in one eye. As to me being a bloodthirsty person, don't you ever get tired of religious nonsense? Let them kill each other and leave the rest of us alone.

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 08:13am

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  The "winners" in a war are the survivors of the side that didn't surrender.

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 08:11am

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  From the trailers, it appears we have a popular TV show now actually glorifying treason - "enemy within" or somesuch.

• On the post: US Government Rings Up Another Whistleblower On Espionage Charges

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 08:10am

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  You've obviously never held a Clearance. You agree by signature of the documents that you *will be charged with Treason" if you lose, disclose, leak, etc. anything at any level of Classified. THAT is why people still holding a TS can't comment on anything these "whistleblowers" have disclosed, even when it's available on the internet.

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