Isn't it obvious? Shouldn't we actually encourage platforms destined for sex buying and selling that leave trails and provide more security to the ones selling their works and the ones buying as well? You know, to avoid the sex workers from falling into predatory hands and customers from being leaded into a trap, robbed and even killed?
The problem with idiotic moral policing without fact based reasoning is that it ignores that there are other morals (ie: people that engage in sex trading and want their partners to be safe and work safely and don't see any moral issue there). We should be legalizing this shit and giving the girls plenty of support just like your average businessman. This would help balancing supply and demand and make it much harder for traffickers to do their jobs because demand would be satisfied. Then the resources not spent battling something accepted and as ancient as humanity could be allocated to fight actual crime.
I won't hold my breath though. We may need 1 or 2 more generations to get rid of the moralist idiocy in a level big enough to bring change. Just look at marijuana.
I come to techdirt daily without touching Google, Facebook or whatever and I give them money even though the site is completely free (and doesn't whine if you block ads in the process of using it for free). What are all these news outfits doing to secure a loyal readership? If you only rely on a 3rd party for most of your revenue you can't really complain. Specially because Google and Facebook are far from the only option and Facebook is actually losing ground as far as I can grasp.
Even if it actually IS impossible to solve a crime we shouldn't be screwing everybody else's rights and privacy because of the very few cases where the criminal was a mastermind that never erred and left no breadcrumbs.
Having 3rd parties discover flaws in some service/software is pretty common and would not mean loss of trust per se. How the company handles the disclosure of the flaw however can be damaging. Unfortunately Keeper is far from the exception. The proper response would be to solve the problem as quickly as possible even requesting details from the researcher who discovered the flaw and provide plenty of transparency and information to their customers on what's being done and how to proceed to secure their passwords and prevent damage as much as possible.
So, yeah, Keeper can die a fiery, Streisand death.
On the Republican dictionar the translation to common English is: Closed Internet Promotion Act. Also warmly nicknamed the "Make our Pockets Great Again Act".
In other words, we either don't want to or forgot how to do our jobs and we will whine incessantly until things are done the way we want. Petulant kids are better than law enforcement.
We should organize a Black Manifesto reading and discussion in that moron's yard. Then when he rightfully feels annoyed, tell him it's first amendment an all and point to this lawsuit.
Why the heck do people have so much difficulty to understand the 1st is valid for the goddamn government, not private entities?
Re: 9th Circuit notoriously "liberal"; don't rely on it. -- Then all hinges on "good faith" and "objectionable". But in NO event did Congress authorize corporations to become Censors and determine what ideas are acceptable.
*slow clap*
You managed to hit Godwin in the first comment. Color me amazed.
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10. Do you believe we are a bunch of sleazy, greedy, pathological liars that greatly harmed progress of science, culture and arts by locking everything up behind virtually infinite copyright terms?
"Given that even the anti-internet Wall Street Journal understands the many problems of the bill, why is it that so many in Congress refuse to deal with it? "
I assume you haven't been reading the comments here, have you? (j/k)
It's not about facts and evidence, it's all about perception. I perceive it as being good and generally aligned to my opinions/voters, thus it's a good thing. Cognitive dissonance be damned.
"Companies ought to be concerned with the reputational harm that comes from terrorists and criminals using their encryption and social media platforms for illicit ends,"
I'd infer that the reputational harm that will come with the unavoidable breach of the golden key will be much, much worse than some half dozen terrorist posts.
It will keep climbing down until the mandated removal interval is "instantly". Some platforms folded to the whining because of the money involved but they should've expected that once they gave their hands it would not stop until the whiners got the entire body.
The whiners will keep whining or pushing for laws to the eternity. And everybody will lose, including those platforms.
Hmm, if anything these security problems are the sole responsibility of the industry itself to the point that only custom made software or DIY hardware changes will ever fix those problems because said manufacturers couldn't care less. And I'd further argue that software and hardware should be completely free for whoever wants to pop it open and scrutinize it because we can't trust the industry to do their job properly.
Careful with this piece of argument dear companies. I hope somebody uses it to show the industry can't be trusted with repairs and patches by itself and thus we need strong rights to repair and no circumvention restrictions of drm and whatsoever.
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The problem with idiotic moral policing without fact based reasoning is that it ignores that there are other morals (ie: people that engage in sex trading and want their partners to be safe and work safely and don't see any moral issue there). We should be legalizing this shit and giving the girls plenty of support just like your average businessman. This would help balancing supply and demand and make it much harder for traffickers to do their jobs because demand would be satisfied. Then the resources not spent battling something accepted and as ancient as humanity could be allocated to fight actual crime.
I won't hold my breath though. We may need 1 or 2 more generations to get rid of the moralist idiocy in a level big enough to bring change. Just look at marijuana.
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Re:
On the post: FBI Director Says It's 'Not Impossible' To Create Compromised Encryption That's Still Secure
Re: Wrong from start to finish
Great, let them build that awesome encryption. We will then break it and prove your goal is not achievable.
Pretty simple.
On the post: Keeper Security Reminds Everyone Why You Shouldn't Use It; Doubles Down On Suing Journalist
So, yeah, Keeper can die a fiery, Streisand death.
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On the post: More People Realizing That SESTA Will Do A Lot More Harm Than Good
"We are adults, we know what we are doing, we don't need to listen to lowly kids..."
Yeah.
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Why the heck do people have so much difficulty to understand the 1st is valid for the goddamn government, not private entities?
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Re: The Origins of Man
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Re: 9th Circuit notoriously "liberal"; don't rely on it. -- Then all hinges on "good faith" and "objectionable". But in NO event did Congress authorize corporations to become Censors and determine what ideas are acceptable.
You managed to hit Godwin in the first comment. Color me amazed.
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Re:
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Re: Re: If the ".XXX" domain is ever put in place, this'd be trivial "technologically", as you over-syllabalize it?
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- Yes
- Hell yes
- Absolutely yes
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I assume you haven't been reading the comments here, have you? (j/k)
It's not about facts and evidence, it's all about perception. I perceive it as being good and generally aligned to my opinions/voters, thus it's a good thing. Cognitive dissonance be damned.
On the post: Australian Government Continues To Push Encryption Backdoors It Refuses To Call Encryption Backdoors
I'd infer that the reputational harm that will come with the unavoidable breach of the golden key will be much, much worse than some half dozen terrorist posts.
On the post: EU Commission Says Social Media Companies Must Take Down 'Terrorist Content' Within One Hour
The whiners will keep whining or pushing for laws to the eternity. And everybody will lose, including those platforms.
On the post: Wireless Carriers, Hardware Companies Use Flimsy IOT Security To Justify Attacks On Right To Repair Laws
Careful with this piece of argument dear companies. I hope somebody uses it to show the industry can't be trusted with repairs and patches by itself and thus we need strong rights to repair and no circumvention restrictions of drm and whatsoever.
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