This. Aside from the good/human/kind sentiment this would show, imo, DC should issue a special superman issue mentioning this poor boy in some way, profits go to some charity that prevents evil jerks from doing horrible shit to kids.
Swartz was spoofing MAC addresses at a single location to gain connections he would have been denied without spoofing. Apple is rotating MAC addresses on a mobile device to make it harder for any person or company with a wifi router to track the mobile device user.
Nope, disagree completely. Network admins were tracking and blocking Aaron by MAC address.
Apple rotates MAC addresses to prevent tracking, a PREREQUISITE to blocking.
Re: Re: Re: Obviously, Timothy Geigner has never been the victim of a crime
Yes because 2000 years ago was a lovely, peaceable time, where children wore rainbow smiles and danced in gumdrop hats, laughing and playing.
It wasn't at all a time of desperation and darkness wherein people starved and murdered and were executed in the most heinous ways imaginable.
Let's rely on a moldy old book for our morales, and claim that it's the word of God, eventhough it's been revised more times than that Star Wars scene with Han and Greedo.
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I think this is more about surreptitiously recording customers being considered a Bad Thing™.
I know up here in Canuckistan it's one-party consent (your interpretation of this is wrong as pointed out by AC), and we don't do the wacky american criminal code per state/region/neighbourhood, and most customer service lines still have this.
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Aww yeah!
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Sure this is air canada?
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Prima facie
...which is why this investigative technique is so often referred to in criminal court cases.
Seriously, the above plus this:
implies the feds have lied/withheld evidence in a court of law.
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Re: Correction
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Re: "All traffic" ≠"all public traffic"
FTFY.
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Totally within the law
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Paid off by Raytheon? That's ridiculous
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Re: Proper response...
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Re: The citizen have caused their own problems
If I called you an asshole, would you get mad?
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Re: The context is different
Nope, disagree completely. Network admins were tracking and blocking Aaron by MAC address.
Apple rotates MAC addresses to prevent tracking, a PREREQUISITE to blocking.
It's exactly the same thing.
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Bad url for this article in RSS
https://www.techdirt.comarticles/20140522/14013827337/journalist-argues-ny-times-that-publishing- decisions-should-ultimately-be-made-government.shtml
(note the missing slash after techdirt.com)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Obviously, Timothy Geigner has never been the victim of a crime
So which is it?
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Re: Re: Re: Obviously, Timothy Geigner has never been the victim of a crime
It wasn't at all a time of desperation and darkness wherein people starved and murdered and were executed in the most heinous ways imaginable.
Let's rely on a moldy old book for our morales, and claim that it's the word of God, eventhough it's been revised more times than that Star Wars scene with Han and Greedo.
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Re: Re: Re:
I think this is more about surreptitiously recording customers being considered a Bad Thing™.
I know up here in Canuckistan it's one-party consent (your interpretation of this is wrong as pointed out by AC), and we don't do the wacky american criminal code per state/region/neighbourhood, and most customer service lines still have this.
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Newt
Amirite?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Stretching it much?
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