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  • Mar 08, 2024 @ 06:23pm

    Congress could pass a comprehensive privacy bill. They just choose not to do so.
    This immediately made me think of a scene in Animal House: "He can't do that to our pledges. Only we can do that to our pledges."

  • Apr 09, 2014 @ 09:41pm

    Re:

    Screw it, I did it myself. I don't want this CA in my browser.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994478

  • Apr 09, 2014 @ 09:32pm

    Who wants to file the bug for removal from Mozilla?

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/policy/maintenance/

    Section 2, dot 2.

    CAs must revoke Certificates that they have issued upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

    The CA obtains reasonable evidence that the subscriber?s private key (corresponding to the public key in the certificate) has been compromised or is suspected of compromise (e.g. Debian weak keys), or that the certificate has otherwise been misused;

  • Mar 30, 2010 @ 10:21am

    PACMAN!

    Jack Valenti once compared Cable TV to Pac-man:

    "Now, I don't have to tell you, Mr. Chairman -- God, we have sweated blood together on the Cable Copyright Act -- but this subcommittee back in 1976 recognized the inequity of a new technology being unlicensed, cable television. You didn't want cable television fouling the airwaves and like Pac Man, gulping do everything in sight, and denying the copyright owner -- I say that as a throwaway line to Warner Bros. and Atari -- not only de copyright owner his rights, but stripping his other markets of their profit potential. "


    A few minutes later in the hearing was his famous Boston Strangler quote.

    http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm

  • Dec 05, 2006 @ 05:48am

    Michigan?

    Machines without a paper trail aren't allowed in Michigan, so they can strike that off their list of places to sell them to.