Kurt Opsahl
Kurt Opsahl
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There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.
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The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.
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Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective digital rights management technologies. We hope that other record labels will learn from Sony's hard experience and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the stick of copy protection.
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Creativity and innovation will end up moving offshore where programmers outside the U.S. can develop technologies that are not required to address the onerous CALEA requirements. The U.S. companies will face competition from foreign providers who will enjoy an advantage.
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What you search for indicates a lot about you: what you're worried about, what you're interested in. It's a window into your personality that people consider to be very private information.
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I believe that the FBI and DOJ want to extend CALEA as far as possible.
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One of the key issues in this case is protecting the rights of journalists
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Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996 made clear that interactive computer services could not be held liable as publishers or speakers of content posted by third parties. It also provides that no cause of action may be brought, and no liability may be imposed under any state or local law that is inconsistent with the section. And what he proposes is a state law that is inconsistent with that section.
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While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.
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We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony.
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It's a privileged escalation attack. On Windows you can have users with different privileges, and because of security weakness in the permissions of a folder, it allows a low-ranked user to act as a high-ranked user.
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We're asking that the system allow people to surf and to post and read things anonymously. Because the system requires people to sign on, it creates the opportunity for persistent tracking.
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What they have done so far is a start, but it does not resolve all issues. Sony has fixed the immediate security flaw but there are other flaws. It is critical for Sony to do a robust notice campaign to make people aware of this.
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What you want to do is to teach students to use liberty responsibly, not take it away because you don't trust what they'll do with it. One thing you can do to guarantee that everyone in the school will want to see a site is to suspend someone over it.