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• On the post: Huawei Busted Helping African Governments Spy On The Press, Political Opponents

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2019 @ 05:35am

  Re: you have been warned

  We need to get these chinese out of our countries for good all of them.

  What, even Chinese who happen to be citizens?

• On the post: Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2019 @ 12:29pm

  “Comply first, and, if warranted, complain later.”

  This only applies if you comply with an order. If you comply with a request, then by complying you've waived any right to complain about it later.

• On the post: Whining About Big Tech Doesn't Protect Journalism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2019 @ 12:35pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  ... that then goes back to the search engine.

  If the person wants to find something on the web, then yes, they'll go back from the news site from to the search engine, because search engines and news sites fulfill different purposes.

• On the post: Whining About Big Tech Doesn't Protect Journalism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2019 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  How are people who don't already visit a news site meant to find articles on that site, if not for search engines?

• On the post: As Germany Floats The Idea Of Encryption Backdoors, Facebook May Already Be Planning To Undermine Its Own Encryption

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2019 @ 06:58pm

  https *IS* end-to-end encryption

  The security issue with HTTPS is that if a certificate authority has their key stolen (or secretly cooperates with a third party) you can be tricked into establishing a connection with an impersonator, since the impersonator will have what appears to be a valid certificate. However, this is an issue with any end-to-end system which uses a certificate authority type scheme. The only way to avoid this is to personally validate the private key of the other party, like with key signing parties.

• On the post: Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2019 @ 11:10am

  Re: Yeah, WE KNOW the "evidence": it's your attack that was WRON

  By "attack", I'm assuming you mean the accusation that Shiva is a liar/fraud? If so, I don't think Shiva agrees with you. That is, I don't think that Shiva's attitude is:

  "I might be mistaken in my belief that I invented email, and if Mike Masnick merely said that I was mistaken in my belief I'd have no problem with him."

  That's not at all the impression I'm getting from him.

• On the post: Getting Worse Part 2: Intuit's CEO Informs Employees That Free To File Was Hidden For The Public's Own Good

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 May, 2019 @ 11:57am

  the video culminates with Goodarzi stating that the company has ceased hiding the free to file site

  Will it stay that way come next tax season?

• On the post: Canadian Committee Publishes Ludicrous Fantasy Pretending To Be Copyright Reform Analysis

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 May, 2019 @ 01:11pm

  Re: More eye-rolling won't help. Not after years promoting pirac

  If all creators are in favor of taking current copyrights and extending them, at what point will they be extended enough? Or are creators all in favor of perpetual copyrights?

• On the post: Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 May, 2019 @ 11:51am

  Re:

  I think his position is that calling Ayyadurai a liar doesn't legally count as opinion based on disclosed fact.

• On the post: Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 May, 2019 @ 11:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Millionaire MM now asks YOU to subsidize his lying!

  DE FACTO he's out some hefty sum

  If you defend yourself against a lawsuit and win, the fact that winning cost money doesn't make you wrong.

• On the post: Our Legal Dispute With Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 May, 2019 @ 11:47am

  Re: Millionaire MM now asks YOU to subsidize his lying!

  By the way, DE FACTO, he's wrong on defamation law too.

  What did he get wrong about it?

• On the post: DC Legislators Push FOIA Amendment That Would Shield Government Emails From FOIA Requesters [UPDATE]

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 02:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Polygraphs are used regularly because they can be used to apply psychological pressure to the questionee. Not because they have any sort of accuracy.

• On the post: FBI Tells The Governor Of Florida About Election Hacking, But Says He Can't Tell Anyone Else

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 May, 2019 @ 04:02am

  To play Devil's Advocate...

  Hypothetical: there's multiple groups of attackers, each acting against a single election machine vendor. If the particular vendor was disclosed, that particular group would be alerted that they have an information leak that they need to fix. But if the disclosure is kept to "some county in Florida", then there's so many counties with so many different vendors that it doesn't pin things down enough.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 01:09pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Also, I'm annoyed when you do things like claim that intelligent conservatives have been silenced but refuse to name those conservatives, or claim that something goes against common law but refuse to name what parts of common law, areas where not backing up your claims have nothing to do with maintaining your anonymity.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 01:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  So those reviews of lawyers you're talking about are reviews that you have written? Otherwise I don't see why citing those reviews would imperil your anonymity.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I know you don't answer to me. I'm merely expressing annoyance that you keep making claims without backing them up.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 12:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Non-disparagement agreements aren't going to help with that.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Re:

  Hopefully the laws barring these contracts are what will be thrown out. Otherwise, the white-collar professionals are sitting ducks for "reputation blackmail."

  Makers of false statements can already be sued under current defamation laws.

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

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2019 @ 12:20pm

  Re:

  Gee I should post

  Yes. Put up or shut up. Please.

• On the post: Higbee Tries To Shake Down Forum For Deep Linked Photograph

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 May, 2019 @ 02:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Why? I link to a page put up by the copyright holder wouldn't be in any way infringing.

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