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by sjy 5y ago
The parts of the article quoted above suggest that the principle is a CFAA violation – someone who distributes an exploit tailored to destroy evidence captured by Cellebrite probably “knowingly causes the transmission of a program, informat
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by sjy 5y ago
Those transaction cost estimates are extremely volatile. I recently tried to pay 50 sat/vB (~$4) for a transaction on a Monday and it didn’t clear until Saturday. Unfortunately mempool.space doesn’t seem to publish historical data, but
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by sjy 5y ago
This doesn’t apply to mobile devices, since it’s not feasible to remove the internal storage device and take a bit-perfect image of it using another computer. You need to plug the device into a Cellebrite kiosk, trust Cellebrite to send rea
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by sjy 5y ago
Yes, and it’s not an uncommon defence in child pornography cases. Similarly, you can always claim that the police framed you by lying about the device being found in your possession, or not being tampered with between seizure and forensic a
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by sjy 5y ago
Copyright does not include an exclusive right to private performance. There is nothing to license here. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
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by sjy 5y ago
How does this work? Is it normal for university libraries to keep a huge secret backup collection of PDFs? What happens if the university chooses to discontinue its subscription, as opposed to the publisher going out of business?
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by sjy 5y ago
It’s not really ‘standard’ because instructing expert witnesses and going to trial is beyond the financial capacity of most criminal defendants, as well as the legal aid system which needs to carefully ration funds that could be allocated t
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by sjy 5y ago
See paras 82 to 90.
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by sjy 5y ago
Yes. You’ll find many results for the keyword ‘cellebrite’ on law.justia.com, canlii.org and austlii.edu.au. These free databases are far from comprehensive and most cases won’t go on appeal or end up in a legal research database at all, so
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by sjy 5y ago
> they would have made passwords a 4 digit pin if they had their way There’s a well-known bank in Australia that has been doing this for years [1]. It’s very convenient, and if there was a significant fraud risk associated with it, you’d
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by sjy 5y ago
What’s the experience of searching and editing your org-mode notes on your (presumably Android, since Syncthing doesn’t exist on iOS) phone like? I’ve been interested in org-mode for a while, but most advocates seem to spend all their time
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by sjy 5y ago
Deno uses ES6 modules, which are supported by modern browsers. There’s no node_modules. https://deno.land/manual/examples/import_export
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by sjy 6y ago
The part I quoted is clearly about photos, not drawings. I think arguing that possessing child pornography should be legal is “defending behavior a reasonable person would identify as Paedophilia.” Your reference to the formal definition of
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by sjy 6y ago
> He directly addressed child pornography by saying that “making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.” https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendi
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by sjy 6y ago
Some of RMS’s behaviour seems excusable, but I think a majority of the population would support the social norm by which anybody who publicly states that possession of child pornography should not be illegal [1] is disqualified from leaders
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by sjy 6y ago
I think that case [1] is largely based on bribery, a recognised form of honest services fraud [2] for which it’s not necessary to prove that the defendant ‘obtained money or property.’ [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma&#x2
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by sjy 6y ago
Thanks for prompting me to look a little further into this. Leaving aside the legal technicalities, I suppose there is a fundamental difficulty here in that academic cheating itself generally is not (and in my opinion shouldn’t be) dealt wi
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by sjy 6y ago
Why don’t these cheating services ever get investigated by the police? They are obvious, organised, profitable frauds. How is this any different to selling fake IDs or stolen usernames and passwords?
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by sjy 6y ago
From what I can tell, the system in the US is significantly more complicated for individuals (mortgage interest deductions, 43 different state income taxes, “alternative minimum tax,” gift tax, estate tax...)
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by sjy 6y ago
Why can’t you estimate the power consumption of the whole network and divide it by the number of transactions per second?
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by sjy 6y ago
The same reason anaesthesia doesn’t make it okay to kill humans. There’s lots more on this in chapter 4 (“What's Wrong with Killing?”) of Singer’s Practical Ethics , if you’re interested.
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by sjy 6y ago
This is ridiculous. Consciousness may be mysterious, but the fact that something emits sound when you break it doesn’t bring it into the same ethical domain as cows and other mammals with brains and an obvious desire and ability to avoid pa
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by sjy 6y ago
> The weakness of CSS is evident by how difficult it has been to properly center something within a container until relatively recently … you can't even really just target raw HTML+CSS+JS if you want to deploy something - you need a
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by sjy 6y ago
According to what theory? This sounds like the law of large numbers, which depends on the assumption that the averaged random variables are independent and identically distributed. The history of speculative bubbles contradicts the idea tha
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by sjy 6y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a working open wireless network (ie. no captive portal) in public, let alone been able to access one from my living room. Are they more common in other countries?
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by sjy 6y ago
The only quotes attributed to the judge are: – ‘Koh said she’s “disturbed” by Google’s data collection practices’ – ‘Koh said she finds it “unusual” that the company would make the “extra effort” of data collection if it doesn’t use the inf
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s strange that people are dismissing this judge as technically illiterate. > Koh, 45, has become the de facto face of law in Silicon Valley. "She has an almost peerless reputation for fairness and efficiency in judging the issues
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by sjy 6y ago
Freedom to modify is also not the same as a renewable 7-day licence to run up to 3 custom apps, as long as you maintain a $99/year subscription and a device that can run Xcode.
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by sjy 6y ago
You mention that the JavaScript console has been used maliciously – doesn’t its continued existence show that we can put up a fence that’s good enough? Even the most locked down corporate PCs still provide access to the console. I’ve also
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by sjy 6y ago
> should my oven manufacturer have to account for me wanting to turn it into a space heater if I feel like it? No, because their failure to do this has no structural consequences for the market in ovens or space heaters. Apple’s control

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