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• On the post: FBI Decides To Ruin A Man's Life Over Nude Photos Of His Legal Girlfriend He Took Seven Years Ago

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2018 @ 11:22pm

  Re: Re: Seriously?!

  anyone who does not yet by now know that **any sexually explicit picture of someone under 18 is illegal ** You do know that this was 7 years ago... before most of the prosecutions and misuse of our judicial system to go after people doing non-crimes had occurred. Now if only he had a time machine, he could go back and stop himself from taking a picture that he probably didn't think would be a problem 7 years later. You know if doing stupid things were illegal, this statement should probably get you about 3 years.

• On the post: Latest Text Of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected: Must Be Stopped

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2018 @ 11:31pm

  Re: In this one piece are TWO zombie "accounts" with SIX YEAR GAPS!

  I knew you'd make a comment about me once you got started. Hmm... what if I told you one set of comments is on my laptop and another on my phone. I sign all of my writing, I just don't always sign in. But I'll never be able to disprove your theory so whatevs.
  
  The fun thing about humans is we like to see patterns even when there are none. And those who see patterns where they think they are nefarious and sneaky turn them into conspiracies. You are a conspiracist of the most inane kind.

• On the post: EU Parliament's Own Website Violates The GDPR

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 29 May, 2018 @ 06:27pm

  Re:

  Call me a little daft or even a bit uninformed, but please explain to me your statement of "The data harvesting free-for-all that the big players depend on is in flagrant violation of basic human rights principles."
  
  I'm just not sure what you mean because that is a very bold statement but you don't explain it or back it up in any way.

• On the post: The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It's Hard To Celebrate

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 28 May, 2018 @ 07:55pm

  Re: Re: Unauthorized Access To US Computers [was Re: ]

  Go look up Weev and see his story. No passwords involved.

• On the post: Verizon Begins 'Testing' DSL Usage Caps It Refuses To Call Usage Caps

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 22 May, 2018 @ 10:05am

  Re: Re:

  But 500 and 1000 are really big numbers! It has to be HIGH SPEED with numbers that big.

• On the post: Verizon Begins 'Testing' DSL Usage Caps It Refuses To Call Usage Caps

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 22 May, 2018 @ 10:03am

  Re: Re: Verizon can do what it wants

  The problem is: what consequences?
  
  We've seen almost zero consequences for any of the telecom/ISP antics since the Ma Bell split 30+ years ago.

• On the post: Researchers Find Breathalyzers To Be Just More Faulty Cop Tech Capable Of Putting Innocent People In Jail

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 14 May, 2018 @ 07:28pm

  Re: Re: Advocating that alcoholics be let behind wheel to endanger all.

  Welcome to Club Zombie(tm)
  
  The fact you took the time to sign in will just make the tin hats spin on their heads.

• On the post: How Microsoft Convinced Clueless Judges To Send A Man To Jail For Copying Software It Gives Out For Free

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2018 @ 07:59am

  Re:

  This is possibly the best analogy I've seen in this discussion.
  
  He's supplementing something already paid for once and containing a legal license so it gets reused instead of recycled/trashed by providing the "supposedly free" reinstall CD portion of the equation that many non-technical people can't or won't do. The biggest thing he tried to do, having it made in China, was use mass generation techniques to reduce costs.

• On the post: Marsha Blackburn Wants ISPs To Sell 'Fast Lanes' Like 'TSA Pre-Check'

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2018 @ 08:47am

  Re: Anonymous Threat

  No, it's more like saying 'Go Fuck Yourself' but with the requirement that the receiver actually understands the simple cause and effect of a stated action.

• On the post: DOJ Investigating AT&T, Verizon for Making It Harder To Switch Wireless Carriers

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2018 @ 04:00am

  Re: Re: I know I'm just playing to the trolls

  In the upper right hand corner there is a search box. Search for 'TripMN'. I'll wait.
  
  If you just did that, you will see that my posting history is almost continuous every few weeks over the last 3 years... its just that I used the same name but wasn't signed in for a whole bunch of it.
  
  You can put down the tin foil buddy. I'm just a regular software developer who follows technical blogs because its useful in my line of work.

• On the post: DOJ Investigating AT&T, Verizon for Making It Harder To Switch Wireless Carriers

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2018 @ 01:03pm

  I know I'm just playing to the trolls

  I haven't read the article and I don't have anything to add (yet), I just wanted to comment early to see if that person who keeps following me around and calling me out on being an astro-turf account comes out of the woodwork again.
  
  Let's just say it is for science.

• On the post: The Washington Post Thinks Overpaying For Broadband Bundles Is A Hoot

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2018 @ 06:34am

  Better Analogy

  It's like having only one or two restaurants allowed in a city and no other sources of food. People are going to eat there no matter how bad the prices, food, or service are... but the writer wants us to be happy that we don't have to bring our own tables and chairs to the restaurant.
  
  So does her SO work for Big Cable or did they just make a generous donation to her bank account?

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2018 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Oh, MISSED "TripMN" or "Trip W" as began, now

  Only because I'm not always signed in. The cookie goes stale and auto-signin stops working... and I'm too lazy to re-login.
  
  Of course if you go look for TripMN (not logged in to my user) you will find out I have a lot more comments where I just type in my name instead of signing in... but as I said, I'm a tad bit lazy.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2018 @ 03:33pm

  Re: Re:

  He's never won before... and thinks he was robbed...

• On the post: 19-Year-Old Canadian Facing Criminal Charges For Downloading Publicly-Accessible Documents

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2018 @ 11:27am

  Re: Re:

  It was Weev.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

• On the post: 19-Year-Old Canadian Facing Criminal Charges For Downloading Publicly-Accessible Documents

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2018 @ 11:41am

  This is the epitome of insecure "security". If people working for the government don't think people can count to the next number, they are dumber than advertised. The least they could have done is used a pseudo-random hash value instead of an incremented numeric id (add some randomness to the values)... but then again the people doing this possibly don't understand that putting files on a web-server means the server will serve them even if they aren't redacted.
  
  This computer stuff isn't that hard if people stop thinking its magic and anyone who does something they don't want is a hacker.

• On the post: Another Company Blows Off Breach Notification For Months, Lies About Affected Customers When It's Exposed

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2018 @ 08:11am

  Re:

  I thought this was a joke... but holy hell.
  
  His LinkedIn says he worked information security at both places.

• On the post: Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 10:21am

  Re: If this stays a win, it's good for security

  That's not how it usually works in practice. Have to write it all yourself usually means more vulnerabilities because less eyes on the code/libraries, fewer reports of errors, and no large movement for fixing deficiencies once caught. The fact that everyone is working together on security of libraries means there are fewer security holes. Having Alice the Jr. Dev implement a one-off version of security with all of the errors a junior dev often does will make things worse, not better... and there aren't enough good senior engineers to go around.

• On the post: SESTA's First Victim: Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2018 @ 10:29am

  Re:

  Wouldn't that mean Tinder, Match.com, Plenty of Fish... etc. are all illegal as well?

• On the post: Appeals Court Says It's Okay To Copyright An Entire Style Of Music

  

  TripMN ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2018 @ 02:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Well, there goes my musical career.

  And then you won't be able to bang two rocks together without having to pay someone cause Thag owns the copyright on that shit.

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