Posts by AMD

McCain begs for YouTube DMCA takedown immunity

Bitten By His Own Legislation

Nice to know that if the law was passed (even though DCMA should be taken off from the books) that one of the people that voted FOR it is caught for violating it. Besides the usual rumor mongering that his campaign engages in, being a music and video pirate shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

OMFG, what have you done?

Way to go RegGuys!

Finally getting into the XHTML stuff! (Nice since the standard came out in 1999).

Federal judge halts Defcon talk on subway card hacking

“whistleblower” protections

One of the problems with the current laws when it comes to security and computer research is that there is no “whistleblower” protections, unlike those that are in place for people that expose fraud and things in other systems.

The U.S. Government wants sides with companies that make products or produce software for the most part. The lawmakers are paranoid about the internet (mostly because they don't understand it) and believe anyone who uses it is involved in either child porn or downloading movies/music or software. Anyone who researches security and exposes the chinks in the armor is a person that is a "dangerous hacker" bent on destroying the system and costing a company money.

We are not allowed to tell people that "the emperor has no clothes".

San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail

Knowing the 'Rest of the Story'

There seem to be questions that are unanswered: 1) What the original conflict was about. What set him off in the first place. 2) How did he manage to lock it?

No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims

Time to encrypt

Email is in plain text, so one could argue as the government does that it is like sending a post card. Sealing it up with encryption would be like putting it in an envelope against curious postmen.