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• On the post: Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No Fifth Amendment Issue Here

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2021 @ 09:31am

  Re: Insanity to give you what you want

  And now my password is a multiplication problem. Battery Horse Staple Correct [5*7]

• On the post: Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No Fifth Amendment Issue Here

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2021 @ 09:31am

  Re: Insanity to give you what you want

  And now my password is a multiplication problem. Battery Horse Staple Correct [5*7]

• On the post: Def Leppard Claims Music Piracy Is Bringing Younger Audiences To Its Concerts

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2017 @ 06:08pm

  Re:

  what the Dead figured out was touring was the money maker that the labels couldn't siphon.
  
  It's different thing that what DL has done which is using the power the internet and the 'free' to drive fans to their shows.
  
  Both are significant.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends Popehat For Writing About Violent Threats He Received From Another Twitter User

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2017 @ 05:14pm

  Re:

  every email, his website, his business cards...

• On the post: Wyden Siren: Coats Is Answering A Different Question About Surveillance Of US Persons

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2017 @ 06:16pm

  Re: He already knows the answer

  What we need is to have the laws say that our intelligence services may not POSSESS, Collect or Receive, domestic communications.
  
  As it is now, the Five Eyes simply collect each others domestic comms and give them to each other.

• On the post: How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2017 @ 05:40pm

  Re: YNOT share infrastructure

  Indeed public infrastructure can be shared. The Cable and fiber currently deployed is NOT public infrastructure. Definitely should be but it isn't. As such, either a competitor has to put up their own poles over the entire area or run buried lines.
  
  Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
  
  We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
  
  The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.

• On the post: Could Firmware Expiration Dates Fix The Internet Of Broken Things…Before People Get Hurt?

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 31 May, 2017 @ 06:12pm

  Re: Re:

  Yes you're moving the attack point, but it's basically the same as your router firewall doing the heavy lifting while behind the firewall you can run without one in relative safety if you choose.
  
  I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.

• On the post: Daily Deal: Private Internet Access 2-Year Subscription

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2017 @ 07:22pm

  Re: Re:

  US based I believe. I use PIA and am pretty happy with it. Occasionally their servers get blocked by Waze routing servers (and other such vanilla sites) but likely that's normal with any decent volume VPN.
  
  Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
  
  If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.

• On the post: How A Little Metadata Made It Possible To Find FBI Director James Comey's Secret Twitter Account

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2017 @ 06:19pm

  Re: Re:

  "Well, I wouldn't go that far; lots of things get done with government money that aren't useful."
  
  aren't useful right now
  
  FTFY

• On the post: New Filings In Our Ongoing Lawsuit

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2017 @ 11:45am

  Re:

  Would love to donate to the defense fund but your vendor uses Stripe for CC processing. They're terrible and routinely block transactions for no valid reason.

• On the post: Just To Be Safe, We're Resetting All Techdirt Passwords In Response To Cloudbleed

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2017 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re:

  fuckton

• On the post: Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2017 @ 07:48pm

  Re: Re: CANT DONATE?????

  yeah it's Stripe. Bank hasn't seen any attempted transactions at all.

• On the post: Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2017 @ 05:24pm

  CANT DONATE?????

  your provider uses Stripe for CC transactions. I've had nothing but trouble with Stripe.
  
  Card is fine, data is fine. Stripe simply declines it. CC provider never even sees the transaction. 2 different cards.

• On the post: State Senator Wants To Turn First Amendment Activity Into 'Economic Terrorism'

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2016 @ 11:54am

  I support this

  If there's someone who would end up qualifying under this statute...it's Donald J Trump. Easy to impeach a 'terrorist' isn't it?

• On the post: Canada Copyright Troll Threatens Octogenarian Over Download Of A Zombie War Game

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2016 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Yet another story reinforcing my whole-house VPN

  I use PIA and while it works absolutely fabulous for my needs, it seemingly wouldn't work for full time usage as too many times their IPs get blocked by various mainstream sites, making those sites less than fully functional.
  
  The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
  
  Any suggestions for when the VPN IP gets blocked?

• On the post: Would You Be Tempted By This 'Grand Bargain' On Privacy?

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2016 @ 11:03pm

  You get what you pay for

  we PAY doctors, lawyers and accountants for their services.
  
  The data they collect is entirely separate from the services they provide to us.
  
  Unless this is proposing we pay Facebook/Google for the services they provide it doesn't fit the current reality

• On the post: This Is Huge: New Project Releases All Current (Non-Confidential) Congressional Research Service Reports

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2016 @ 09:48pm

  Re: Re: They'll Be Missed

  They study them along with other violent causes of death and injury...it's just the guns that politically they aren't allowed to study.
  
  More correctly the CDC is banned on spending any money on such gun violence research.

• On the post: California DMV Rejects 1NFOS3C Vanity Plate Because Of 'Sexual Connotation'

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2016 @ 06:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Eliminate License-Plates !

  perhaps unlicensed drivers are a bigger problem expressly BECAUSE of license plates significantly reducing the number of unregistered cars?

• On the post: Continued Disagreement And Confusion Over Yahoo Email Scanning

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2016 @ 08:58pm

  Why would they care about quality?

  The NSA Benefits from a sloppy install. Once they get the info having hackers come in and mess things up covers their tracks

• On the post: Comcast/NBC Ignores Lessons From The Cord Cutting Age, Buries Olympics Under An Ocean Of Annoying Advertising

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2016 @ 09:31pm

  Re: Re:

  Never fear even with a cable sub it's really hit or miss as to whether you can actually watch anything

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