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by declan 12y ago
Well, there is no U.S. law requiring key escrow. There are a very few laws that impose escrow-like requirements on some sectors. If you're a financial services firm you may be required to monitor employees' email, which makes some
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by declan 12y ago
The history here is non-intuitive; I'll try to explain it. I was living in DC during the Crypto Wars of the late 1990s and covering them as a reporter (I've since shifted to working on http://recent.io/ , of course
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by declan 12y ago
The first statute you're quoting, 47 USC 1002, was part of the 1994 CALEA legislation. A basic principle of legal interpretation is that newer laws trump old ones if that is clearly the legislative intent. So if the 1997 ban-strong-cry
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“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997)(thomas.loc.gov)
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So DEA has a secret database of some significant subset of American's phone records compiled with zero court oversight. Lovely. But the first question that springs to mind is: Wy would DEA not try to vacuum up email and other metadat
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Whether auto-face recognition is a good idea or not, it's going to happen as the trends we all know and love continue. Even if major tech companies don't build this in to their camera-enabled products, open source projects will
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by declan 12y ago
Well put. Also as <abalone> suggested nearby, the author of the linked article, Max Christian, fumbled the exchange and instead of a million-dollar exit ended up with... what? Instead of the claim of "I can easily get to twice £X
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British Prime Minister Wants to Ban Encryption(businessinsider.com)
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When I worked at CNET, we were (and still are) indexed by Google News despite not having three-digit numbers in URLs. That's because your excerpt from Google News' guidelines left off a very important addendum: "Please note t
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by declan 12y ago
There's been a long-running effort by the copyright lobby to muzzle Chilling Effects. Participants in that effort include Sony, Disney, NBCUniversal, Viacom, BSA, Universal Music, the Entertainment Software Association, and two of my p
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by declan 12y ago
>What's the source for your 20% figure and have you read any of Paul Campos It's NALP data; they post it on their site. I like what Paul Campos has written, at least what I've read of it, and agree with many of his points,
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by declan 12y ago
I think I largely agree with you; one major difference is the opportunity cost of science postdocs vs. other careers. Philip Greenspun's linked article elsewhere in the discussion is probably the best treatment I've ever read. But
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by declan 12y ago
<crucini>, thanks for your kind words. I may not have been as clear as I should have been, so let me try again. Let's look at what JSTOR itself said: "The case is one that we ourselves had regretted being drawn into from the
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by declan 12y ago
>Replace science with medicine, or law, and the same still applies. I don't think that's true with law. The linked essay talks about "the 20 years of your adult life that a scientist typically spends proving they deserve a
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House to Take Another Stab at Terrible CISPA Internet Bill(consumerist.com)
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From 'WarGames' to Aaron Swartz: How U.S. anti-hacking law went astray (2013)(cnet.com)
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The White House's non-response on the two-year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death shows why these petitions are not only flawed, but should be avoided by people who actually care about political or policy change. Look at the near
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by declan 12y ago
Isn't one big difference that Google doesn't attempt to prohibit you from installing apps from other sources, which EFF also pointed out? I just took a quick look at the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement, the Google Pla
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by declan 12y ago
As <pm> points out nearby, the GAE pricing issue was in 2011. It's now 2015. I use GAE for http://recent.io/ (which I left CBS last year to found), and have found that prices have been gradually falling for the l
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by declan 12y ago
>Probably the same way as the old USA cryptography export restrictions. Actually it would be much worse. Even in the 1990s, you could release any crypto code (or ship any crypto product) you wanted as long as you took some fig-leaf steps
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by declan 12y ago
This is not the first time such a law has been proposed. In 1997, a House of Representatives committee approved a ban on domestic encryption without backdoors for .gov access. Here's an excerpt from the SAFE Act, as it was called back
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Renovo Coupe: “the first all-electric American supercar”(renovomotors.com)
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New York Prosecutor Calls for Law to Fight Apple Data Encryption(bloomberg.com)
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If you send bogus DMCA takedown notices, and this qualifies as one, there can be legal consequences. The DMCA requires: "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complain
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by declan 12y ago
But there's no evidence that either of your assumptions is true. Gogo has said publicly[1] that they're trying to "shape bandwidth" to YouTube and other streaming sites. Let's not spread conspiracy theories about &q
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GoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube(reed.com)
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>Don't they do peer reviews before publishing articles to the eyes of millions ? No. The closest journalism gets to peer review is fact-checking. I know of no newspaper or website that does formal fact-checking; the only times I rec
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by declan 12y ago
> I've seen a lot of claims that it's obvious that every one of us is being monitored. I've yet to see any evidence backing it up. Huh? That was the first Snowden leak. I summarized it in this article for CNET at the time:
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This is a good place to reference cypherpunk co-founder Tim May's email from 1992: http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html Took the world long enough to catch up.
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I posted some thoughts on the law here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8789302 Service provider liability isn't exactly a new topic; it goes back to at least Cubby v. CompuServe in 1991 (note this is not necessar

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