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• On the post: FBI Dismisses Child Porn Prosecution After Refusing To Hand Over Details On Its Hacking Tool

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2017 @ 10:18am

  Useless tech for law enforcement

  As it happens, there's a reason law enforcement cannot use any tool as they see fit, at least within nations that uphold the rule of law.
  
  And apparently, what the FBI used there violates the rule of law, which is why the judge threw out the idiots for trying.
  
  But it's easy to guess what the FBI did: They infected the accused's computer with malware which also allowed the planting of (fabricated) evidence; like Hacking Team's "Galileo".
  
  As a hint for future cases: If it's technology meant for espionage or warfare, it's probably not usable for law enforcement. If the evidence it creates is not tamper-resistant but actually opens more options for tampering, it's not usable for law enforcement. If you don't want to talk about, it's NEVER useable for law enforcement. If it comes with an NDA, it's NEVER usable by law enforcement.

• On the post: Utterly Tone Deaf To Cord Cutting, Cable Contract Feuds And Blackouts Skyrocket

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2017 @ 09:24am

  Net Neutrality

  That is what happens if you don't have net neutrality.

• On the post: Our Unfortunate Annual Tradition: A Look At What Should Have Entered The Public Domain, But Didn't

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2017 @ 05:56am

  Re:

  wikimedia commons. Probably home of the most expansive knowledge on the subject.
  
  Use this as a starting point:
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules

• On the post: Now Italy Wants To Make 'Fake News' Illegal

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 08:20am

  Re: Re: Can we call this what it is?

  I actually call it propaganda.

• On the post: EU's Departing Internet Commissioner Leaves Behind Copyright Plan That Will Outlaw Basic Internet Functions

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 01:09am

  Re:

  Also on Youtube, so you can see the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HbJ4oZsck

• On the post: FBI Says It Has 487 Pages Of James Comey Talking Points, Refuses To Release Any Of Them

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 01:03am

  Re:

  Since they won't tell us what's in the document, we'll just assume the worst.
  
  Actually, you should assume the dumbest. Because that's probably what it is, they're afraid of being embarrassed.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2016 At Techdirt

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 12:55am

  Re: Nine Kings

  I can type that without worrying about copyright, right? It was written in 1957, copyright duration was 28 years then, so yes. [1] [1] reality and criminal lawmakers might contradict the constitution and the rule of law.

• On the post: City Passes Ordinance Mandating CCTV Surveillance By Businesses, Including Doctors And Lawyers Offices

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2016 @ 05:03am

  Re: Re: Re: This is a good thing folks...

  I would rather face down a Capitalist Monopoly than a Government Regulated Monopoly ANYDAY! Welcome to a world where capitalists have made the government give them monopolies.

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Carrying Trays On A Cart

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2016 @ 03:38am

  Since the patent offices can't be bothered to research prior art somewhere other than in patents themselves, ridicule ensues.
  
  Like this one here, where Apple managed to get a patent on (at least) 4000 year old technology.
  https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/patents-on-bronze-age-technology/

• On the post: Top US Surveillance Lawyer Argues That New Technology Makes The 4th Amendment Outdated

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 05:50am

  Re:

  It's not a double edged sword because of encryption, but because everything you do to foster surveillance will cut you, and everyone else, by jeopardizing security. Encryption is actually the scabbard.
  
  https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-biggest-threat-to-cyber-security-is-surveillance/

• On the post: Nintendo Opens Up New Front In War On Fans: ROM Mods

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2016 @ 05:34am

  Re: Re: Create new open source games

  As for point 4 that would be copyright infringement. No. Otherwise "Avatar" would infringe upon "Pocahontas".

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Wants To Charge Computer Purchasers $20 To Access Internet Porn

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2016 @ 10:45am

  Re:

  Does some key component become 'the computer' like we pretend a receiver == gun?)? Interesting question. What happens if your gun does not have a receiver, because it's a Flintlock?

• On the post: South Carolina Senator Wants To Charge Computer Purchasers $20 To Access Internet Porn

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2016 @ 10:41am

  Whereas, studies have shown that pornography is a public health hazard, leading to a broad spectrum of well documented individual impacts and societal harms

  Right. Studies like "The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs" by William Acton, 1857

  Wherein he also describes the health hazards of masturbation:

  "His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a drivelling idiot or a peevish valetudinarian".

• On the post: European Information Security Advisory Says Mandating Encryption Backdoors Will Just Make Everything Worse

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2016 @ 03:44am

  Surveillance is the biggest threat to security

  The question is simple:
  
  Do you really want to be responsible for terrorists taking down the electrical grid, using a backdoor you inserted, or a vulnerability you kept secret, because you wanted your surveillance capabilities?
  
  https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-biggest-threat-to-cyber-security-is-surveillance/

• On the post: Dunks And Drunks: Jagermeister Blocks Milwaukee Bucks Logo Trademark Application

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2016 @ 03:39am

  Re: Same question

  It doesn't even need an answer. Because, these are not the same trademarks, even if the have the same name.
  
  As it happens, trademarks are per category:
  http://www.oppedahl.com/trademarks/tmclasses.htm
  
  Company A has a trademark in class 10, company B in class 28. Or in the other example, Jägermeister has one in class 33, and the Bucks have trademarks in 28 and 41. And they don't ever clash.
  
  It just seems something like "category" is too complicated a concept for (trademark)-attorneys.

• On the post: Bad Info In Law Enforcement Database Turned Former Cop Into A 'Suspected Gang Member'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2016 @ 03:20am

  Australian Convicts

  Yes, convicted for:
  - theft and pickpocketing
  - trying to form a union
  - tolerating homosexuality
  - rebellion (particularly if you were Irish)
  - being catholic in Ireland and owning a gun
  - circulating the works of Thomas Paine
  - mutiny with intent to increase workplace conditions
  - demanding voting rights for everybody
  - being an orphan
  - illegal duelling
  - being a woman baring herself for "an immoral purpose"
  - being a servant accused of theft
  - bigamy
  - clandestine marriage
  - poaching (including plants and fish).

• On the post: The Intercept Publishes A Post From James Clapper's Classified Blog… the 'Intercept'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 02:35am

  Re: Re: The oath we took

  Yes, Edwards Snowden's effort to defend the Constitution wasn't well received either.

• On the post: The Intercept Publishes A Post From James Clapper's Classified Blog… the 'Intercept'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 02:29am

  Re: Re: "Act now, for a limited time only you can get one Safety for the low price of one Freedom!"

  No freedom should be exchanged for security.
  
  Good news: You can't. Because privacy is paramount to security.
  
  Bad news: Every time your freedom gets curtailed, you also get less secure, in spite of what your government tells you.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 02:18am

  Re: Unlimited copyright. ... for a price

  Right. See me how many works I can produce for the public domain, just so I don't have to pay taxes... Bad idea.

• On the post: Legacy Recording Industry To Trump: Please Tell Tech Companies To Nerd Harder To Censor The Internet

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2016 @ 02:08am

  Respect

  Thomas Babington Macaulay explains in 1841 why the proposed extension of copyright beyond the death of the artist will lead to people not respecting it anymore.
  
  http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyright/
  
  You should have listened.

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