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• On the post: How Existing Wiretapping Laws Could Save Apple From FBI's Broad Demands

  

  tqk ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 10:18am

  Re:

  This would appear on it's face to be related to forcing ALL of the company's products to be modified to this standard.

  
  You're just using an overbroad interpretation of "to be adopted". Changing a single phone would apply.

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

  

  tqk ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 09:55am

  A couple of points ...
  

  Increasingly, our reality will obey the rules encoded in software, not of Newtonian physics.

  
  Jennifer, as this piece sums up (correctly), it's about the rules encoded, not their implementation. Focus on the rules. Variables are defined at the start of the code so are easy to be changed, for better or worse.
  
  Secondly, when everything looks like a nail, all you need's a hammer. The DHS has redefined everyone to be potential domestic extremists. Sucks.

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

  

  tqk ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2016 @ 11:28am

  Re: Re: Truest Me, I know What's Best For All Of You

  I don't understand why so-called intelligent citizens everywhere have not called him out re: vaccines and population reduction ...

  
  Well, after creating the disaster that is Microsoft, all that pales in comparison.
  
  Sheesh.

• On the post: Australian Tribunal Says User's IP Address And URLs Visited Are Not Personal Information

  

  tqk ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2016 @ 10:47am

  Re:

  In other words, hoist on her own petard.

• On the post: CIA Head John Brennan Says CIA Failed To Prevent Terrorist Attacks Because Of Encrypted Communications

  

  tqk ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2016 @ 07:31pm

  Re: Re:

  Thus I believe the "encryption" used was actually Unicode.

  
  That is indescribably mean of you, you know? Have you no heart, no common decency?

• On the post: Once Again It's The US That Seems To Be The Most Aggressive With Cyberattacks

  

  tqk ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2016 @ 10:21pm

  ... but maybe we should be thinking about dealing with that fact and shoring up our defenses ...

  
  Costs money and you have to find the right people to do it, who don't exist at the rate you're willing to pay. Enjoy the ride.

• On the post: Our Further Response To Australian Lawyer Stuart Gibson, Who Continues To Threaten Us

  

  tqk ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2016 @ 01:14am

  Re: et tu Stuart Gibson?

  How can a lawyer manage a case ethically if he refuses to read the fundamental replies from the legal council of party he is threatening?

  
  What case? This's all just mano a mano threatening. Until something's filed in court, this's just bluster, not anything the authorities need concern themselves with.
  
  The Internet (web) says "Pics, or it didn't happen." Same thing.

• On the post: Our Further Response To Australian Lawyer Stuart Gibson, Who Continues To Threaten Us

  

  tqk ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 11:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Stay or Go?

  I'd first like to say, Mike, this's tongue in cheek. I'm just playing with this. Don't think I'm accusing you of cowardice or anything by not going with it. Anyone would wonder if you did.
  
  That said:
  

  If Mike were to travel to Australia for any reason, and Gibson still had the desire, he could probably force Mike into a courtroom.

  
  But Mike loves this !@#$! :-) It'd be fun. I am now foreseeing the TD Australian Nutbar Lawyer Junket that Mike's about to announce is selling to TD Insiders. Side trips to the Great Barrier Reef and a couple of NASA funded observatories in the outback are scheduled too. It'll be beamed straight to YouTube and TPB data storage CC-Y... licencing, James Comey's agreed to be MC at the closing night dance.

• On the post: CIA Head John Brennan Says CIA Failed To Prevent Terrorist Attacks Because Of Encrypted Communications

  

  tqk ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 10:46am

  Re: Re: Pardon My Encryption

  Given how many Americans couldn't find France on a map, why is that a surprise?

  
  It's in Louisiana, right, near "Red Stick?"

• On the post: Our Further Response To Australian Lawyer Stuart Gibson, Who Continues To Threaten Us

  

  tqk ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2016 @ 04:01pm

  Re: Stay or Go?

  I am flabbergasted by the fact that Gibson seriously thinks Mike might spend a few grand and actually travel to Australia in order to place himself within a jurisdiction that Gibson might control ...

  
  Where's your sense of adventure? I'd book a holiday for the whole family and write it off as a business expense. Think of the circus this Gibson's offering TD.

• On the post: How A Treasury Terror List Is Preventing Americans With 'Scary' Names From Using Online Services

  

  tqk ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2016 @ 01:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The fatal flaw...

  Just because there are corner cases don't change the common case.

  
  The corner cases cause the common solution to fail. Just because something looks like a duck doesn't mean it's a duck. It could even be a decoy; not even remotely comparable to a duck.

• On the post: NYPD Has Deployed Stingrays Over 1,000 Times Without Warrants

  

  tqk ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2016 @ 12:39pm

  Re: Re: detect and hack

  Like Kevin Mitnick?

• On the post: CIA Head John Brennan Says CIA Failed To Prevent Terrorist Attacks Because Of Encrypted Communications

  

  tqk ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2016 @ 10:53am

  Re: Pardon My Encryption

  So the CIA cannot decrypt plaintext French?

  
  No, silly, there was a haystack in the way. It's a very sophisticated system of cron jobs running searches using picklists and weighting factors, all of which find hits all the time, and it can fill up your inbox in no time. With all the meetings reporting on what it's doing or will do, who's got time to view the results? We're busy here.

• On the post: How A Treasury Terror List Is Preventing Americans With 'Scary' Names From Using Online Services

  

  tqk ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2016 @ 09:15am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gamasutra is poison

  Why am I getting the feeling that this all amounts to how terrifying women are?

  
  I'm suspecting marketroid at work. Troll creates buzz. The more controversial and obfuscated (suspense!), the better.

• On the post: Our Response To Yet Another Bogus Legal Threat From Australia: Go Learn Some Law

  

  tqk ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2016 @ 05:23pm

  Re: Network effects [was Re: ]

  I think blawgosphere is perfectly apropos for both Popehat and Greenfield. We here are part of it too.

• On the post: Ted Koppel Writes Entire Book About How Hackers Will Take Down Our Electric Grid… And Never Spoke To Any Experts

  

  tqk ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2016 @ 09:48am

  Re:

  If we don't worry and something DOES happen, will you save me?

  
  My information offered to you may save you.
  
  There's (at least) two things going on:
  - the sky may be falling.
  - there's wolves at the door wanting to eat you.
  
  Koppel's ignorantly and arrogantly focusing his Chicken Little energies when he should be thinking Three Little Pigs. A little bit of research, and less credulousness, would have saved him from this.

• On the post: Google Partially Caves To French Demands For More Global Censorship Of 'Forgotten' Links

  

  tqk ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2016 @ 09:16am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Companies who ignore the past are bound to repeat it

  Perhaps 10 years from now we will be looking at an internet that is often different depending on where you live or where you are at the time.

  
  That's a new thing, and I'd say we're already well along that path.
  

  The laws, the legal system, and the tax man are all catching up to the internet world.

  
  I don't believe that's possible. Start with the definition of Internet: "a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks", and it's not static.

• On the post: Our Response To Yet Another Bogus Legal Threat From Australia: Go Learn Some Law

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 06:17pm

  Re: Gangster

  So from what I understand from the article is that Milorad "Michael" Trkulja is a gangster.

  
  Gangster would be a step up for him. He's just a common fool.

• On the post: If The CIA Apologizes For Lying About Torture, But Doesn't Tell Anyone About The Apology, Does It Really Count?

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 05:59pm

  Re: Wrong

  Shouldn't they first apologize for torturing people, then apologize for lying about it.

  
  I'll settle for never doing anything even remotely like it ever again. Don't even consider it.

• On the post: Google Partially Caves To French Demands For More Global Censorship Of 'Forgotten' Links

  

  tqk ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 05:00pm

  Re: Use the Nuclear Right To Be Forgotten option

  Everyone happy including all of France.

  
  True, only if you forget about every single person on French territory will be paying the price of these bone headed officials' mis-belief system.

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