What if Apple complies after losing on appeal but ends up bricking the phone or destroying the contents? Is the government then going to accuse them of criminal contempt for the fail and if so, how could they prove it without threatening apple programmers with jail unless they testify against others to help the government get convictions? There's a whole other layer of evil lurking here depending on how this plays out.
I have an idea. If you initiate a takedown and it is wrong, you pay $500 the first time and double the amount each time after that. So, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000 and so on. For companies which automate these systems, they will soon be fined out of existence. This possibility will make them put all takedowns in front of a pair of eyeballs, where they should be going in the first place.
Apple should just ship them a product that wipes the phone and then say "Oh, I guess it didn't work." What is the government going to do? Fine Apple out of existence and destroy the company?
Please. Get head out of sand. This strikes you as "incredible?" Nobody bothered to read about HB Gary Federal's work in this area and connect the dots? There's a huge market for this sort of stuff. Of COURSE you can ASSUME the government and other players have tons of zero-day exploits that MS doesn't even know about! Use some common sense! Really about the only way to communicate securely may be to call your buddy via modem directly and use encryption over the link.
So, when recordings were not digital, but vinyl you're saying if 650,000 people each took a record from the store, the problem isn't the people's behavior? It's the shop owner's fault for putting a price on the record?
Who was this really targeted to? Are there enough Facebook users on satphones @ $8.00 a minute in Afghanistan to be able to influence anything? Or for that matter fake an identity when the other 49 users in the entire country know each other? Seems like some kind of very small elite was/is the target. Iraq makes more sense. Larger nations elsewhere makes even more sense, so maybe this procurement is a smokescreen. Speaking of which, the writing style is kind of amateurish. Has anybody confirmed that this is a valid bid and not a hoax?
But this wasn't a situation where the image was taken by the media and used without permission. It was handed to them by the family who, it turns out, didn't have the rights but that shouldn't be held against them or the media. It's a slippery slope when you start waiving rights, though. What if somebody makes a made for tv movie (tacky, yes, but it's just a hypothetical) and used the picture in promoting it? In that case, they should pay for that picture. It would be up to the shooter to decide what to do with the proceeds and from reading his statement its pretty clear he never intended to profit from it.
Unfortunately, I think Aaron Barr's trouncing was so utterly epic that it requires a new term, a kind of super-form of "pwned." I propose that the terms "ABd" (pronounced "ABdeed") and "AB" be defined to mean a digital attack of an overwhelming, all-encompassing, devastating nature compromising multiple professional and personal systems and likely to result in the end of a career (or extended neutralization) and/or the coining of a new term. Examples: "Billy got ABd totally." "Somebody should AB that company."
Now, of course there will be a need for another term if it turns out that instead of getting ABd, HBGary Federal actually setup an elaborate honey trap and was expecting this. Slim chance, given the fallout, but stranger things have happened.
Unfortunately, I think Aaron Barr's trouncing was so utterly epic that it requires a new term, a kind of super-form of "pwned." I propose that the terms "ABd" (pronounced "ABdeed") and "AB" be defined to mean a digital attack of an overwhelming, all-encompassing, devastating nature compromising multiple professional and personal systems and likely to result in the end of a career (or extended neutralization) and/or the coining of a new term. Examples: "Billy got ABd totally." "Somebody should AB that company."
Now, of course there will be a need for another term if it turns out that instead of getting ABd, HBGary Federal actually setup an elaborate honey trap and was expecting this. Slim chance, given the fallout, but stranger things have happened.
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What if Apple fails?
What if Apple complies after losing on appeal but ends up bricking the phone or destroying the contents? Is the government then going to accuse them of criminal contempt for the fail and if so, how could they prove it without threatening apple programmers with jail unless they testify against others to help the government get convictions? There's a whole other layer of evil lurking here depending on how this plays out.
How would fines alter this behavior?
I have an idea. If you initiate a takedown and it is wrong, you pay $500 the first time and double the amount each time after that. So, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000 and so on. For companies which automate these systems, they will soon be fined out of existence. This possibility will make them put all takedowns in front of a pair of eyeballs, where they should be going in the first place.
Oh-oh.
Apple should just ship them a product that wipes the phone and then say "Oh, I guess it didn't work." What is the government going to do? Fine Apple out of existence and destroy the company?
Get real
Please. Get head out of sand. This strikes you as "incredible?" Nobody bothered to read about HB Gary Federal's work in this area and connect the dots? There's a huge market for this sort of stuff. Of COURSE you can ASSUME the government and other players have tons of zero-day exploits that MS doesn't even know about! Use some common sense! Really about the only way to communicate securely may be to call your buddy via modem directly and use encryption over the link.
So, when recordings were not digital, but vinyl you're saying if 650,000 people each took a record from the store, the problem isn't the people's behavior? It's the shop owner's fault for putting a price on the record?
Are there 50 facebook users in Afghanistan?
Who was this really targeted to? Are there enough Facebook users on satphones @ $8.00 a minute in Afghanistan to be able to influence anything? Or for that matter fake an identity when the other 49 users in the entire country know each other? Seems like some kind of very small elite was/is the target. Iraq makes more sense. Larger nations elsewhere makes even more sense, so maybe this procurement is a smokescreen. Speaking of which, the writing style is kind of amateurish. Has anybody confirmed that this is a valid bid and not a hoax?
Normally, I'd support the photographer
But this wasn't a situation where the image was taken by the media and used without permission. It was handed to them by the family who, it turns out, didn't have the rights but that shouldn't be held against them or the media. It's a slippery slope when you start waiving rights, though. What if somebody makes a made for tv movie (tacky, yes, but it's just a hypothetical) and used the picture in promoting it? In that case, they should pay for that picture. It would be up to the shooter to decide what to do with the proceeds and from reading his statement its pretty clear he never intended to profit from it.
How the hell did that get up twice?
Is there a way to delete the repeat?
New term proposal: "ABd" or "AB" someone or thing
Unfortunately, I think Aaron Barr's trouncing was so utterly epic that it requires a new term, a kind of super-form of "pwned." I propose that the terms "ABd" (pronounced "ABdeed") and "AB" be defined to mean a digital attack of an overwhelming, all-encompassing, devastating nature compromising multiple professional and personal systems and likely to result in the end of a career (or extended neutralization) and/or the coining of a new term. Examples: "Billy got ABd totally." "Somebody should AB that company."
Now, of course there will be a need for another term if it turns out that instead of getting ABd, HBGary Federal actually setup an elaborate honey trap and was expecting this. Slim chance, given the fallout, but stranger things have happened.
New term proposal: "ABd" or "AB" someone or thing
Unfortunately, I think Aaron Barr's trouncing was so utterly epic that it requires a new term, a kind of super-form of "pwned." I propose that the terms "ABd" (pronounced "ABdeed") and "AB" be defined to mean a digital attack of an overwhelming, all-encompassing, devastating nature compromising multiple professional and personal systems and likely to result in the end of a career (or extended neutralization) and/or the coining of a new term. Examples: "Billy got ABd totally." "Somebody should AB that company."
Now, of course there will be a need for another term if it turns out that instead of getting ABd, HBGary Federal actually setup an elaborate honey trap and was expecting this. Slim chance, given the fallout, but stranger things have happened.