I'd be willing to bet that any laws mandating backdoors in encryption will have exemptions for law enforcement and government, so they won't be bothered a bit if the key to the backdoor is leaked.
A more effective solution might be to simply get the WTO to ban the USA from using the WTO dispute settlement system until such time as the USA has complied with all orders of that system.
"...Comcast will suffer significant, irreparable injury to its property, operations, and customer relationships."
For once Comcast might be telling the truth. After all, if Comcast is forced to compete there will ge irrepairable damage to the profit margins, Comcast would also be completely unable to maintain the current levels of customer service.
As with any totalitarian government and government wannabes, (I'm looking at you Mafiaa!) the entire goal is controlling everything. Guilt, innocence, truth, lies are all irrelevant to them. Open software cannot be controlled, so it must be stamped out, by any means necessary.
The law is narrowly crafted to only apply to internet postings, so all they have to do is keep using copyright on the laws as an excuse to take down any copy of the law that gets posted.
Just a clueless, ignorant city attorney who is trying to abuse copyright law to do something it doesn't do.
More likely it's a case of an experienced lawyer who has learned that the threat of a lawsuit is enough to get people to do what you want, even if the lawsuit itself is totally bogus.
The DOJ will take all this information and bury it in an archaic file system. It will be strangely unable to find any of this collected information, except when it's useful to the DOJ to have the information public.
Well, neither are most of the people who do it for a living, so you're in good company, Mr. Popick
That's only true if accuracy is a requierment for being a political commentator. From what I can tell, the main qualification required to be a commentator is the ability to spout off line after line of pure BS and still keep a straight face. Looking at the news today, I'd say there are a lot of VERY qualified political commentators out there.
The test is quick, cheap, and has a high probability of adding even more profit to the for-profit prison system. Why would the authorities want to change anything?
As I recall, the USA has tried this before. In the 1980s, encryption was covered under the same export laws as munitions, and export of high strength (>40 bit keys) encryption was banned. The result? Since importing full strength encryption was legal, almost all encryption development moved offshore. If the USA starts to require backdoored encryption, the exact same thing will happen again.
I'm surprised the police didn't just ask ICE to do the searching, considering that ICE is allowed to treat most of the country as a constitution free zone.
Until that end of the exchange is taken more seriously, there's nothing stopping DMCA takedown companies from solemnly swearing that every single bogus URL is correct to the best of their knowledge, even when the most cursory review shows otherwise.
Well, that only shows that the DMCA encourages the takedown companies to know as little as possible about the copyright status of a given page. If they can honestly say they know nothing at all about the page they want taken down, then they can also honestly say they have no information that would contradict the assertion that that page is infringing.
given the current state of facial recognition software, and the lack of any provable science behind what they are claiming. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict they will have an error rate approaching that of a coin flip.
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I'd be willing to bet that any laws mandating backdoors in encryption will have exemptions for law enforcement and government, so they won't be bothered a bit if the key to the backdoor is leaked.
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For once Comcast might be telling the truth. After all, if Comcast is forced to compete there will ge irrepairable damage to the profit margins, Comcast would also be completely unable to maintain the current levels of customer service.
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More likely it's a case of an experienced lawyer who has learned that the threat of a lawsuit is enough to get people to do what you want, even if the lawsuit itself is totally bogus.
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That won't do much. The government doesn't pay that, taxpayers do.
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That's only true if accuracy is a requierment for being a political commentator. From what I can tell, the main qualification required to be a commentator is the ability to spout off line after line of pure BS and still keep a straight face. Looking at the news today, I'd say there are a lot of VERY qualified political commentators out there.
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If the USA starts to require backdoored encryption, the exact same thing will happen again.
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Well, that only shows that the DMCA encourages the takedown companies to know as little as possible about the copyright status of a given page. If they can honestly say they know nothing at all about the page they want taken down, then they can also honestly say they have no information that would contradict the assertion that that page is infringing.
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