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• On the post: Julian Assange Arrested On Behalf Of The US, For Trying To Help Manning Crack CIA Password

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 08:45am

  Re: Re: About the use of Linux

  All a BIOS password or tamper-resistant hardware would do is make it harder to hide what you're doing;

  A BIOS password would have prevented booting from a live CD. Putting a lock on the chassis would have prevented the BIOS password from being reset.

• On the post: Julian Assange Arrested On Behalf Of The US, For Trying To Help Manning Crack CIA Password

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 07:58am

  About the use of Linux

  Paragraph 9:

  The portion of the password Manning gave to Assange to crack was stored as a "hash value" in a computer file that was accessible only by users with administrative-level privileges. Manning did not have administrative-level privileges, and used special software, namely a Linux operating system, to access the computer file and obtain the portion of the password provided to Assange.

  So, assuming the allegation to be true, Manning booted a machine using a live CD to get around security restrictions on the harddrive within the machine. Meaning that though manning didn't have administrator/root access to the machine, she 1) had physical access to it, and 2) either the machine had no BIOS password, she knew the BIOS password, or she could open up the computer's chassis so as to reset the BIOS password.

  In other words: what kind of crappy security practices did they have in place?

• On the post: Be Careful What You Wish For: Twitter Temporarily Bans 'Get Out The Vote' Ads To Comply With 'Fake News' Law

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2019 @ 01:24pm

  Re: The burden of thinking here is on Twitter, BEFORE blocking.

  Throw a few Twitter execs into jail, they'll stop obstructing.

  I don't think you can throw someone into jail for following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law.

• On the post: German Publishing Giant Claims Blocking Ads Is Copyright Infringement, In Yet Another Lawsuit Against The Industry Leader

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2019 @ 12:39pm

  Re:

  If you're mainly concerned with the autoplayed sounds and you're using Chrome you can use the mute tabs by URL extension, switch it to whitelist mode, then whitelist the sites where you actually want to be able to play sounds.

• On the post: German Publishing Giant Claims Blocking Ads Is Copyright Infringement, In Yet Another Lawsuit Against The Industry Leader

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2019 @ 11:15am

  Re:

  ... assume liability for any viruses or malware rogue ads might deliver to users ...

  My Windows laptop once got bricked by malware served up through a compromised ad network on a blog I frequent. The first thing I did once I got my laptop reimaged was install an ad blocker.

• On the post: Legislator Irritated By A Journalist Decides State's Government Should Start Regulating Journalism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 05:18am

  An off-topic question for John Doe

  Elsewhere you've said that said that if Section 230 wasn't around that it would cost certain lawyers a lot of money. Could you explain what you mean by that?

• On the post: Former Police Chief Says Conviction Requirement For Forfeitures Makes It Too Hard To Take Cash From People

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 02:54am

  Re: Re:

  Normal people support law enforcement, respect and admire the police, and do everything in their power to help them in their service, not make their service impossible.

  The 4th amendment makes the job of cops harder. Should ordinary people support a rule making it so that the 4th doesn't apply to cops? If not, and normal people should support the 4th applying to cops, how is it somehow anti-cop to think that asset forfeiture without a conviction violates the 4th?

• On the post: Former Police Chief Says Conviction Requirement For Forfeitures Makes It Too Hard To Take Cash From People

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 12:15am

  Not the real John Smith?

  I think that this isn't the real John Smith. The comment feels a little too on the nose, and John hasn't previously shown any interest in asset forfeiture.

• On the post: EFF Fights For Redditor Targeted By Religious Organization For Forum Posts About Its Data Collection Policies

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 10:49am

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  SLAPP laws ... [are] a bonanza for attorneys that encourages litigation

  How do they encourage litigation?

• On the post: EFF Fights For Redditor Targeted By Religious Organization For Forum Posts About Its Data Collection Policies

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 10:47am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I... Yes? You said:

  They could have just removed the posting and reposted it without the allegedly infringing material.

  Just taking down the original post won't prevent the lawsuit, since the post is already down. The plaintiff is suing for (alleged) copyright infringement that already happened; taking down the post won't make it unhappen.

• On the post: EFF Fights For Redditor Targeted By Religious Organization For Forum Posts About Its Data Collection Policies

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2019 @ 10:09am

  Re:

  They could have just removed the posting and reposted it without the allegedly infringing material.

  I might be misunderstanding things, but I don't that'd work. The user in question hasn't filed a counter notice, since their identity is still being sought. Since they haven't filed a counter notice, the material they originally posted is still down (assuming that Reddit complies with the DMCA), yet despite the material still being down the plaintiff is still seeking their identity. Thus the user taking the material down isn't going to stop the lawsuit.

• On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 06:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  No problem, I've made the same mistake myself.

• On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 06:21am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Many who adopt foreign children do so because they are molesting the kids, btw.

  1) Why would molestation of adoptees be more common among international adoption vs domestic adoption? 2) Is this some sort of dig against Ken White (Popehat), since he's adopted three children from overseas?

• On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 05:12am

  Re:

  I wish that John Doe would get an account here, so that I could tell the difference between his genuine comments vs people pretending to be him.

• On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 03:52am

  I've read that the manifesto both names explicit targets (individual people) that he exhorts people to murder and contains explicit details on how to go about murdering people. I can understand wanting to prevent those things from being circulated, but the government could have narrowly stated that just those things couldn't be shared, with a redacted version of the manifesto being okay for sharing.

• On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 03:27pm

  Re: Re: The Golden Era of the Gatekeeper

  Article 13 is an attempt to rebuild the internet from the ground up, which will shake the foundation of those who relied on UGC

  Why would the EU want to get rid of user generated content?

• On the post: Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It's About Filters, Now Say It's About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don't Work

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 02:58pm

  Re: Re: Techdirt has written that SOPA/PIPA put in place by stea

  That's obvious to anyone who'll read through their comment histories. You cannot explain that "Scary Devil Monastery" made one comment and then was dormant for over five years, then took off at 400 per year rate. -- Similarly "Gary" took off from 6 a year, but are now among the most prolific here. It's a conclusion but firm.

  Alternate explanation: user signs up for an account to leave a comment on a single article because of interest in that topic. Other articles on TD at the time were of no interest to them, so they don't hang around to read it every day; just a drive by commenter who bothered to make an account. Years later, another article that interests them on TD. However, this time there's other articles on the site which interest them, which gets to to check TD every day for new articles, and thus they become a regular.

• On the post: EU Internet Companies Warn EU Parliament Not To Vote For Articles 11 & 13; Say They'll Hand The Internet To Google

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2019 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Knowledge = responsibility.

  Ah, so my question as to who you are is answered: the one who goes on and on about common law while ignoring all requests to clarify which portion of common law you're talking about and ignoring all requests to provide clarification as to what you mean by common law.

• On the post: EU Internet Companies Warn EU Parliament Not To Vote For Articles 11 & 13; Say They'll Hand The Internet To Google

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2019 @ 11:16am

  Re:

  If defamation is spread via a phone call, the phone company isn't held responsible for it. If a package delivery company delivers something which violates copyright, the package company isn't held responsible. Why should it be different for Internet companies?

• On the post: EU Internet Companies Warn EU Parliament Not To Vote For Articles 11 & 13; Say They'll Hand The Internet To Google

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2019 @ 11:46am

  and all the fanboys regard me with mixture of awe and fear

  Who are you?

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