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by rsingel 14y ago
Hey John, that's pretty much what I found when I did an explainer for Wired about them: “You have no obligation to obey the disclaimer if you decide to read a misdirected email, send it to your friends, or send it to a Wired reporter,” says
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by rsingel 14y ago
Please don't let the DoJ see this video. They will want a backdoor at the protocol layer.
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by rsingel 14y ago
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by rsingel 14y ago
Agreed. I stand corrected.
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by rsingel 14y ago
I'd look for an old Macbook that you can actually upgrade (many you cannot). I'm still loving my 2008 Macbook 4.1. It's got a 2.4 Ghz processor, upgraded to SSD and 6GB of RAM and new battery (~4hrs runtime). Check for refurbs and upgrade v
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by rsingel 14y ago
Well, in the PACER case, Carl talked to the FBI and offered to take the fall for Aaron if it came to that. That's even though Aaron used archive.org servers without Carl knowing what had transpired. https://public.resource.org/aaron/pub/ms
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by rsingel 14y ago
For those unfamiliar with Carl Malamud, he's a national treasure cataloging and open-sourcing the nation's legal codes, government videos, legal filings and other public documents. He had Aaron's back many times, including when the FBI was
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by rsingel 14y ago
Let me pose another scenario. Say you have a journalist who suspects a company is doing something not kosher or has a big acquisition coming. That company has a strict policy that employees may not talk to the press without permission. Desp
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by rsingel 14y ago
While I agree car culture is powerful, I've been persuaded that it'll be over 50% faster than you think. The cost saving of not owning a car will become apparent quickly. Cars that can be much smaller (since you no longer buy/rent a car for
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by rsingel 14y ago
Once again, he wasn't charged with blackmail and he never said squat about blackmailing. And if your intent is to sell the data, you don't use your real name when you get a media organization to write up the security hole.
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by rsingel 14y ago
He never contacted AT&T. There was no talk of blackmail. He embarrassed the company. The alleged crime was identity theft. The people he was accused of stealing the identity of were journalists whose emails and UCC-IDs were pulled out o
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by rsingel 14y ago
No. AT&T is willing to do anything the gov wants. Now, say it was a hole in Gmail? I bet there's government agencies, foreign and domestic, that would buy that for sure.
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by rsingel 14y ago
Not true. Lexis makes lots of money from providing services like docket tracking. Subsidize one kind of access? Public access is the only one that matters. And in actuality, there's no need to raise filing fees. The courts get paid lots of
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by rsingel 14y ago
New opinions are online and are now free to download (U.S. District Courts). The appellate courts lag. Lexis and West pay lots of money to track cases (though cheaper than a citizen pays) and then charges the government for the ability to t
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by rsingel 14y ago
Lexis and West pay the courts for these documents. They are happy to pay the fees. The courts are happy to get the fees. Do you honestly think Lexis and West would be happier if the docs were free? Who loses? The public. The proceedings of
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by rsingel 14y ago
There are legitimate complaints about access to court dockets as well. While you assume that the public isn't interested in court dockets, there are important segments of the population that do want that. Take for instance reporters. Say fo
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A word on cryptography(mega.co.nz)
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by rsingel 14y ago
If he found it and then sold it to a government agency, he'd be rich and not in jail. Selling exploits to the government is a lucrative business. Google "CIPAV", for one.
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by rsingel 14y ago
Weev direct marketing iPad accessories? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Go read the IRC transcripts. It's so clearly a joke.
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by rsingel 14y ago
Remind me never to file a bug report to any company you work for.
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by rsingel 14y ago
Where was he openly declaring unlawful intent? The court transcript is on the web.
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by rsingel 14y ago
So even though he didn't do anything illegal with the data, you think it is criminal that he didn't obey some unwritten rule about using an API in that way? If I wrote a script to scrape 10 million e-mail addresses from usenet, am I a fel
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by rsingel 14y ago
May we see some proof of the full story. There's nothing to that effect in the IRC logs other than some jokes about how the data is valuable and how they could sell iPad accessories. As if. What did he do? Wrote a bunch of journalists to
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by rsingel 14y ago
How does this differ from the Chrome to Phone plugin?
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by rsingel 14y ago
Orin is a good prosecutor (though retired). But let me drop two fine pieces of evidence to refute his statement that Aaron was going to put all of JSTOR into the public domain based on a manifesto. 1) Aaron's previous escapade was making PA
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by rsingel 14y ago
Yes, it does. Things that make you seem like you are being a criminal hurt. The hard thing is that sometimes either option looks bad. For instance, IIRC, Weev deleted the download script that pulled data from AT&T and the data itself,
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by rsingel 14y ago
Lexis-Nexis pays bulk rates to Pacer via contract. Attorneys pay to file documents. Those are set by the U.S. court system, not Congress. He's making the same argument the U.S. court system has made, sub-rosa, for years, as it's raised fe
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by rsingel 14y ago
This is such a load of self-serving bureaucratic nonsense. Pacer is an awful site that rips off the American people. Even if it is a cash cow, there's NO justification from keeping copyright free documents that are essential to democracy be
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by rsingel 14y ago
Are you kidding me? It's awful. I used it every week. Finding documents is a nightmare. There's no subscribe function. Trying to download a PDF is a ridiculous chore and even seeing a court docket costs money.
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by rsingel 14y ago
The person who pushed this prosecution was Steve Heymann, not Carmen Ortiz. Before you name and shame, make sure you have the right name.

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