Quick! Patent India's idea of not allowing software patents and then sue them for patent infringement! Investor state dispute. Ditto for business method patents! Don't license this patent to anyone in order to prevent any nation from forbidding software patents. And similarly patent the forbidding of a business method patent. Maybe more generally a patent to cover passing legislation that disfavors a business that is or would like to be making money.
Even if AT&T owns the poles, aren't they on land as part of an arrangement that gives AT&T access to all of the properties those poles cross? And wouldn't that arrangement already include provisions to allow other utilities on those same poles?
After all, in general, we wouldn't want to have duplicate power distribution systems. Duplicate natural gas distribution systems. Duplicate water systems. Duplicate sewer systems.
If AT&T could provide adequate and competitive service, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
After all, why should the government be the only ones who can inspect all of your internet communications. It's for your own good.
Piracy is so important that we must circumvent national laws, and nations' legislative ability to pass their own copyright laws. So important that we must dismantle the internet and redesign it as a broadcast medium where the right people are the ones making the money.
If Apple's phones are too secure, then how can law enforcement routinely check for pirated content?
Encryption is obviously evil. It prevents blocklists and censorship by the government and private corporations. It allows people with incorrect thoughts to communicate with others in private.
Modern digital technology is a wonderful thing. If I understand the MPAA correctly, it is trivially easy for digital bits of video (unlike other digital bits?) to be copied to many servers quickly, easily and cheaply.
Now, supposing for a moment that this is indeed true, what if police video were uploaded to a server that distributed it to multiple servers. That way a copy of it ends up with multiple off site backups.
Police department video servers could serve as backups for other police department's video. The storage costs would be well worth it to the public.
This would also enable there to be a separate server under control of an independent review board, free from the tentacles of law enforcement, and available to the courts and defense attornies upon request.
Oh, but according to the MPAA, using a technology, say, like bittorrent to efficiently distribute video is pure evil. Nevermind.
It would seem that this would be a reason for cops to WANT cameras. To prove their POV. Their use of force against druggie enhanced super humans was justifiable.
* Firmware must be approved by the user. * That approval can only be done by unlocking the phone first in order to use it to give the approval. * Firmware updates to the phone OS should NOT be able to compromise security. * Firmware updates to the security apparatus should require destruction of all keys -- effectively wiping the phone. * Make sure customers are fully aware: if you lose your password you have lost all your family photos forever. Make backups of things like this.
That would allow you to test new security apparatus updates in your labs as many times as you want. But you would want the security apparatus firmware to be effectively 'baked in'. Or updating it must require at a minimum that you back up everything first, and be willing to completely wipe the phone for an update to the security apparatus.
Punch cards are machine readable much easier than a printout is. Even if you have to build a new punch card reader from scratch.
Optically reading the printout, while possible, is a much higher hurdle. Enough so that it makes the FBI consider whether it is cheaper to employ a bunch of humans to hand key in the printed information.
The article itself is about how to quickly get your chrome browser to use the same trick that Google's Web Crawler uses to access paywalled sites. You too can read those paywalled sites by making the paywalled sites think that you are the Google Web Crawler.
See the last sentence of the article:
Remember: Any time you introduce an access point for a trusted third party, you inevitably end up allowing access to anybody.
Do you suppose that would also apply to encryption backdoors?
If Copyright is about encouraging learning, then maybe the dreck that Hollywood puts on screen out should not even be eligible for copyright. Ditto for most of the so called music produced today.
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Re: Super fast connections... for about two days
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Re: Re:
One day the indian workers will recognize that they don't need US management. (if they haven't already)
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US Legislators !! Wake up!! Do something!!
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About AT&T's poles
After all, in general, we wouldn't want to have duplicate power distribution systems. Duplicate natural gas distribution systems. Duplicate water systems. Duplicate sewer systems.
If AT&T could provide adequate and competitive service, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
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Back doors. And golden keys.
After all, why should the government be the only ones who can inspect all of your internet communications. It's for your own good.
Piracy is so important that we must circumvent national laws, and nations' legislative ability to pass their own copyright laws. So important that we must dismantle the internet and redesign it as a broadcast medium where the right people are the ones making the money.
If Apple's phones are too secure, then how can law enforcement routinely check for pirated content?
Encryption is obviously evil. It prevents blocklists and censorship by the government and private corporations. It allows people with incorrect thoughts to communicate with others in private.
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Re:
Now, supposing for a moment that this is indeed true, what if police video were uploaded to a server that distributed it to multiple servers. That way a copy of it ends up with multiple off site backups.
Police department video servers could serve as backups for other police department's video. The storage costs would be well worth it to the public.
This would also enable there to be a separate server under control of an independent review board, free from the tentacles of law enforcement, and available to the courts and defense attornies upon request.
Oh, but according to the MPAA, using a technology, say, like bittorrent to efficiently distribute video is pure evil. Nevermind.
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Re: Isn't destroying evidence a crime?
Oh, wait. DMCA, penalty of perjury. Nevermind those meaningless words that only have meaning when the powers that be want it to.
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Re: Druggies not feeling pain
On the post: Alternate Titles: Apple Now Looking To Close The Backdoor The FBI Discovered
Re: I don't want Congress to decide...
Something about being secure in one's property, papers, effects. Search requiring a warrant. A warrant requiring actual suspicion.
The US is becoming the very thing its founders were trying to protect us from.
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Re: Re: Just when I thought I could have a reason to like Apple
Thanks goodness Microsoft no longer has time to copy Apple anymore.
They are too busy copying Google.
On the post: Alternate Titles: Apple Now Looking To Close The Backdoor The FBI Discovered
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* Firmware must be approved by the user.
* That approval can only be done by unlocking the phone first in order to use it to give the approval.
* Firmware updates to the phone OS should NOT be able to compromise security.
* Firmware updates to the security apparatus should require destruction of all keys -- effectively wiping the phone.
* Make sure customers are fully aware: if you lose your password you have lost all your family photos forever. Make backups of things like this.
That would allow you to test new security apparatus updates in your labs as many times as you want. But you would want the security apparatus firmware to be effectively 'baked in'. Or updating it must require at a minimum that you back up everything first, and be willing to completely wipe the phone for an update to the security apparatus.
On the post: Copyright Office Decides To Rewrite Copyright Law Itself, Blesses A 'Making Available' Right That Isn't There
Re: We don't care what the law actually says.
Any possibility of greasing the right palms here or there?
On the post: Copyright Office Decides To Rewrite Copyright Law Itself, Blesses A 'Making Available' Right That Isn't There
Re: Par for the course really
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It makes sense now
No wonder I never saw one of these on a Tech Dirt Daily Deal.
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Re: In the case of the government
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Re: Re: Just take a lesson from FOIA costs...
Punch cards are machine readable much easier than a printout is. Even if you have to build a new punch card reader from scratch.
Optically reading the printout, while possible, is a much higher hurdle. Enough so that it makes the FBI consider whether it is cheaper to employ a bunch of humans to hand key in the printed information.
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A note about Backdoors
http://elaineou.com/2016/02/19/how-to-use-chrome-extensions-to-bypass-paywalls/
The article itself is about how to quickly get your chrome browser to use the same trick that Google's Web Crawler uses to access paywalled sites. You too can read those paywalled sites by making the paywalled sites think that you are the Google Web Crawler.
See the last sentence of the article:Do you suppose that would also apply to encryption backdoors?
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Re: Now It Makes Sense
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An Act To Encourage Learning?
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