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by tjaerv 13y ago
Read up on homomorphic encryption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Excellent slides. thank you. Is the recording perchance available somewhere?
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Indeed. Copyright is ultimately an outgrowth of the privatization of government censorship in sixteenth-century England. For those interested, a readable summary of the history of copyright can be found at: http://questioncopyrig
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> Owning and asserting a copyright does not make you a monopolist [...] All property rights are monopolies. Copyright is not a property right, it is exactly a state-granted monopoly privilege, instituted on ostensibly utilitarian groun
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As of 2008: "For example, as of 2008, there were over 300 terrorists captured using intelligence generated from XKEYSCORE." Anyone have an idea why they'd give a 5-year-old figure? One would hope that the figure as of 2013 sh
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NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference(forbes.com)
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Exactly. Economic incentives trump legal mandates. Landley speaks to this in his Toybox presentation, noting that the forced source code contributions resulting from the Busybox lawsuits were absolutely worthless.
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Yes, because of licensing. See his recent presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The video of the presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Another such backlash is the Unlicense: http://unlicense.org/
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> Currently, anyone can create an account on GitHub and without proof-of-positive-ID can apply any license to any code they choose to upload. Whether they have the right to issue this license is unknown to the user other than by direct d
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Creative Commons for code would be CC0: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27081
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Yes, the conclusion feels like a letdown. With the title of his post ("post copyright") you might think he'd have something to say about releasing code into the public domain, yet there's no mention at all of this. How i
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The real counterweight is to release your code into the public domain, opting out of the copyright industry's game altogether. See http://unlicense.org/
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> I'm pretty sure that Stallman would love a post-copyright world... See http://rudd-o.com/monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-d... : "Richard is against abolishing copyrights because, to his view, wit
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Forget Stock Options, Bitcoin Becomes a Must-Have Startup Perk(youngentrepreneur.com)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|0 comments
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Looks like you're in good company, as well: https://github.com/search?q=Unlicense&type=Code&s=indexed
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Plenty of public domain software on GitHub, with more being created all the time: https://github.com/search?q=%22public+domain%22&type=Code&s=...
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Who's Afraid of the Public Domain? (2008)(stpeter.im)
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Nice catch about GitHub's Terms of Service. From https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service : > ...by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow > others to view your Con
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The notion that the NSA would deem it worth their while to go out of their way to honor GPL legalese seems not a little …optimistic.
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It may be a cultural difference. As I recall, Landley's examples are from the East (Sony, for example). Intellectual property as a sacred institution is somewhat less established there than in the West. The point is that users who woul
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by tjaerv 13y ago
On that note, Bernstein on Moen: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
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Slapping a copyleft license on your project doesn't mean that people magically won't use it where that use would be "infringing". It only means that you can sue, if you should learn of it. See this recent talk by Rob Lan
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London police spend over $16,000 per day to stake out Julian Assange(arstechnica.com)
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New study on how copyright makes books and music disappear(boingboing.net)
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GPLv3. Blech.
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Former Stasi officer: NSA spy program would've been 'a dream come true'(businessinsider.com)
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"This was done under secret agreements with commercial companies, described in one document as 'intercept partners'. […] some companies have been paid for the cost of their co-operation and GCHQ went to great lengths to keep
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Steve Wozniak speaks out against NSA spying: this is not my America(techdirt.com)
110 points by tjaerv 13y ago|17 comments

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