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• On the post: Lavabit Loses Its Appeal For Mucking Up Basic Procedural Issues Early On

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2014 @ 08:26am

  Re: Re:

  How could he get a lawyer when he wasn't even allowed to discuss the case at first? Or even that he had received anything.

• On the post: The Most Bizarre Response To The Pulitzers Yet, From The Guy Who Authorized CIA Torture

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2014 @ 04:11pm

  Re: Wasn't Bush a great president?

  You forgot Alberto "let's redefine torture so we can do it" Gonzalez.

• On the post: UPDATED: NSA Denies Claims That It Knew About Heartbleed And Did Nothing

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 01:25pm

  Re:

  Government agents are specifically exempt, don't you know?

• On the post: Once Again, File Sharing Tools Declared Legal In Spain Because They're Just Tools

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Re: If tools are legal

  Except in the one case where they were forbidden to by the US government...

• On the post: German Town Shoots Down Father's Plan To Name His Son 'Wikileaks'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 10:22am

  Re:

  Exactly. I wonder if they would have accepted the much more common-sounding Julian Assange Hamalaw.

• On the post: German Town Shoots Down Father's Plan To Name His Son 'Wikileaks'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 10:20am

  Re: Re: But...

  Yep. I just re-watched Roots with my kids and it came up.

• On the post: German Town Shoots Down Father's Plan To Name His Son 'Wikileaks'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 10:18am

  Re:

  He needs to move to the US, where he can have freedom?. Of course, as soon as he changes his name, he'll never fly again...

• On the post: Adding Condoleezza Rice To Dropbox's Board Seems Incredibly Tone Deaf Following NSA Concerns

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 12:56pm

  Re:

  I never had a DropBox account to begin with. Looks like I made the right choice.

• On the post: Indiana Supreme Court Declares An Officer's Testimony Is More Reliable Than Video Evidence

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 09:39am

  Re: Hypnotize cops for immunity to law!

  Slight problem. Your plan doesn't take into account high court vs low court.

• On the post: Court Says FTC Can Go After Companies Who Get Hacked For Their Weak Security Practices

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 09:08am

  Re:

  And yet, I have worked at numerous companies where not only were the passwords stored in plain text (and there were ridiculously bad passwords in the database), but they resisted all my attempts to change things because it didn't "drive business".

• On the post: MPAA's Lawsuit Against Megaupload Is Yet Another Broadside Attack On The Internet

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 10:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Not to mention that RapidShare wasn't setting up a new scheme to bypass the RIAA companies.

• On the post: MPAA's Lawsuit Against Megaupload Is Yet Another Broadside Attack On The Internet

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 10:16am

  Re: Re:

  You're totally in the wrong here!
  
  The unfulfilled demand isn't new.

• On the post: Heartbleed Bug In OpenSSL Makes It Worse Than No Encryption At All

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Yes, it's very serious, but...

  OK, I stand corrected. Disregard my previous post. I read it differently yesterday.

• On the post: Heartbleed Bug In OpenSSL Makes It Worse Than No Encryption At All

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Yes, it's very serious, but...

  Because you can make a legitimate, trusted website install malware for you.

• On the post: Former NSA/CIA Boss' Anger Issues: Claims Senate Staffers Are 'Sissies' And Wyden Isn't 'Acting Like A Man'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 10:36am

  Re: lack of understanding

  If you want them to be arrested, you're going to have to elect a president next time that is likely to appoint a DOJ that will do exactly that.
  
  Ron Wyden for President?

• On the post: Former NSA/CIA Boss' Anger Issues: Claims Senate Staffers Are 'Sissies' And Wyden Isn't 'Acting Like A Man'

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 10:34am

  Re: Re: how about a different word?

  I think "sissy" is a man that acts like your little sister, so maybe a little of both.

• On the post: Mike Rogers Still Pushing His 'Snowden Is A Russian Spy' Delusion, Citing Every Single 'Counterintelligence Official' In Support

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 10:24am

  Re:

  " no one that actually thinks is buying it."
  
  So, you're saying that half the population and 90% of Congress IS buying it?

• On the post: Sony And YouTube Take Down Sintel; Blender's Open Source, Creative Commons, Crowdfunded Masterpiece

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 07:42am

  Re: It's Sony

  Since they were using it to demo their 4K TVs, somebody at Sony probably figured that Sony made it, because why would Sony use open source? They hate open source.
  
  (Sony is still on my lifetime ban list.)

• On the post: Sony And YouTube Take Down Sintel; Blender's Open Source, Creative Commons, Crowdfunded Masterpiece

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 07:36am

  Re: Re: Re: The price of a favor...

  Are you being intentionally obtuse? Or do you really not understand simplicity?

• On the post: DOJ Continues To Obstruct Efforts For Megaupload Users To Get Their Files Back

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2014 @ 08:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Because they're still in New Zealand? New Zealand is going to refer people to a US state bar?

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