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• On the post: Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue

  

  tqk ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 11:28am

  Re: Re: Re:

  ... but encryption can and will limit law enforcement's abilities. Why else would Techdirt and others encourage its use?

  
  Holy !@#$, what a twisted interpretation! You believe TD exists to foil law enforcement's attempts to subvert crypto?!? Hasn't it yet occurred to you that crypto is good in and of itself? It can protect you from predators. Is it not possible that's why TD defends crypto, not just to foil law enforcement?
  
  Holy !@#$. :-P

• On the post: Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue

  

  tqk ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 11:19am

  Re:

  Likely leaked by both the committee heads. This gives them a reason to contact potential donors for campaign contributions ("I'm doing something. Support me!"). Don't you know how this works yet?

• On the post: Court Monitor Finds NYPD Still Performing Unconstitutional Stops

  

  tqk ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 10:43am

  Re: Re: What constitutes an unconstitutional stop?

  Techdirt is an interesting site for me, but it's comically anti-cop and shockingly ill-informed about law enforcement in general. So, I do what I can to tell you people you suck at this, just to balance it out.

  
  TD is as anti-bad-cops as good cops are ignoring bad cops. TD's posted many articles lauding good cops using the law and tech smartly. Bad cops stories are big news though, so stand out. Cops aren't supposed to be bad, you know!
  
  You suck at this, insufferably so.

• On the post: Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue

  

  tqk ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2016 @ 11:14am

  Sturm und drang.

  I split that list into these two; public interests vs. gov't/law enforcement/NatSec. Of course, crypto's in both.
  
  Carrot:
  Cryptography
  Global commerce and economics
  Consumer-facing technology sector
  Enterprise technology sector
  Privacy and civil liberties community
  
  Stick:
  Cryptography
  Federal law enforcement
  State and local law enforcement
  Intelligence community
  
  And, they're off!

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 10:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Seems sexual to you because it was meant to

  The point is via artistry, one can be the other interchangeably. So, where to go then?
  
  First, understand art. Perhaps then you won't be shocked and then do silly things in reaction.

• On the post: Annotating The Letter Disney's CEO Sent To Disney Employees Asking Them To Fund Disney's Sketchy Lobbying Activities

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 09:01pm

  Re:

  or how 'bout: how come they call them elevators when half the time they're going down?

  
  Because elevating is going up, their primary value. I can do stairs down forever. Up, not so much. Hence, elevators.

• On the post: We Read Apple's 65 Page Filing Calling Bullshit On The Justice Department, So You Don't Have To

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 07:07pm

  Re: what?

  Or did people get stupid, and allow personal id information on a phone.

  
  They got stupid and trusted it to be stored in "the cloud." They no longer have any say as to how much PII it stores or sells to trusted partners.

• On the post: We Read Apple's 65 Page Filing Calling Bullshit On The Justice Department, So You Don't Have To

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 06:58pm

  Re: Re: don't forget the 13th

  You order me to write malicious code, and I'll decline to participate. I want to talk to a lawyer. I don't care how much you're offering.

• On the post: We Read Apple's 65 Page Filing Calling Bullshit On The Justice Department, So You Don't Have To

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 06:55pm

  Re: Re:

  But you see in china the Emperor wears a different set of cloths and the serfs there do not have the same freedoms as Americans ...

  
  Yeah, poor buggers don't have their own DHS, CIA, NSA, FBI, ...

• On the post: We Read Apple's 65 Page Filing Calling Bullshit On The Justice Department, So You Don't Have To

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 06:06pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I think the question is can the government force them to do something, even with 'reasonable' compensation, against their will?

  
  Apple should tell 'em to piss off on principle. What happens if Apple tries it, it fails and corrupts the data? What's to stop this psycho prosecutor from going after Apple for tampering with evidence/aiding and abetting ISIS?

• On the post: Rather Than Ending NSA's Key Surveillance Tool, White House To Now Let Other Agencies Use It

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 03:25pm

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  ... government has fully shifted into self-preservation mode.

  
  I'd call it attack mode.
  
  The NSA ran it in beta test on foreigners (accidentally on purpose snagging US citizens), now it's being rolled out to production handing it to FBI, IRS, DEA, and sundry PDs who come asking in order to attack residents on US soil.
  
  Your tax dollars at work.

• On the post: Annotating The Letter Disney's CEO Sent To Disney Employees Asking Them To Fund Disney's Sketchy Lobbying Activities

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 02:51pm

  Re: Re:

  Hope you don't like Marvel Comics characters, Star Wars, or any of the other numerous franchises they've bought up.

  
  They're very easy to avoid. I don't miss them. You overrate them.

• On the post: Court Says Cops Can't Testify In Case After Destroying Footage Of DUI Arrest

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Re:

  The fact that the defendant is the one that wants the camera footage and the cops want to hide it strongly suggests who's at fault here.

  
  Or, great technicality! You can get a DUI thrown out by losing footage of it. I thought it would be all about the breath test or roadside "eyes closed hands out to your sides, now touch your nose" test.
  
  How'd the camera even need to be involved?

• On the post: Court Monitor Finds NYPD Still Performing Unconstitutional Stops

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 08:56pm

  Who is your cell leader citizen?

  So are you people (US citizens) expected to show up for the weekly indoctrination meeting the party puts on yet, or is that still coming up? Just trying to keep the timetable straight.

• On the post: Bill Gates Is Confused About Apple FBI Fight, Makes Everyone More Confused

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 12:03pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Doubt it Dragon

  Yet some loser with a bomb is supposed to have the public quaking in it's collective shoes ...

  
  Worldwide! Bomb the Tube in London, and all Britain's "terrorized" by security overload. Twin Towers, NY, 15 years of war and counting. One nutbar rushes Canada's Parliament and we get C-51.
  
  We get to talk about this because the US is so fscked up it can tell Microsoft "hand it all over" and as a good corporate citizen, it does.
  
  Where to start to fix this mess? The Constitution or CALEA?

• On the post: What's At Stake In Apple/FBI Fight: Who Gets To Set The Rules That Govern Your Privacy & Security

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 11:38am

  Re: Re:

  The phone's owner is dead. I'm not so sure he gave them permission - where did you read this?

  
  I've read it's a company phone provided by his employer.

• On the post: Judge Wants To Know More About FBI's Secret Recordings Of Conversations Near Courthouse Steps

  

  tqk ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2016 @ 01:52pm

  I'm not sure this is wrong.

  You know how we all complain when cops freak out about cell phones videoing their actions in public?
  
  Well, on the court house steps is public, and they're surveilling a public place in order to police the activity.
  
  That "phone booth is private" decision is a gentlemens' agreement. Out here, we have directional mics and signal processing and bugs. You need privacy, go find a phone booth.

• On the post: Child-Monitoring Company Responds To Notification Of Security Breach By Publicly Disparaging Researcher Who Reported It

  

  tqk ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 11:10am

  Re: Nice people

  like the way they include the IP address of his "full-time employer", presumably in the hope of getting him fitted.

  
  I thought you were just using British instead of English.
  
  Head of law firm: "What do you do in your spare time?"
  
  You: "I break into child monitoring software databases."
  
  Aaron Swartz was only freeing scientific papers.

• On the post: Child-Monitoring Company Responds To Notification Of Security Breach By Publicly Disparaging Researcher Who Reported It

  

  tqk ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 10:58am

  Re: Re: Well...

  You forgot to mention we all now know how small their weewees are.

• On the post: Child-Monitoring Company Responds To Notification Of Security Breach By Publicly Disparaging Researcher Who Reported It

  

  tqk ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: When will they learn...

  But maybe if those white hat people started actually releasing stuff in the wild and real damages start happening ...

  
  Those damages would hit first those on the front line; researchers who find this stuff.
  
  It used to be when you found a small child wiping its eyes calling for its mother, you'd take it under your wing and help it find her. This encourages you to run away instead, lest you be accused of molesting a child.
  
  Stupid century.

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