Technically, they are debating the legality of the past actions in the UK (there is some room to believe a former very broadly worded disaster is involved).
On the flip side, finding out they were doing all this cloak and dagger spying is quite a wake up call, no? It is rather telling they went to such lengths to obscure their actions because they knew there would be backlash, legal loopholes or not.
Also, as a curiosity, if all encryption for communications by telecoms (including ISPs I assume) done by businesses located in the UK have to be decryptable on warrant, what does this do to things like, say, Amazon.uk or any banking website using SSL?
Don't forget the server daemon programs in the Unix/Linux world... and it's not -that- uncommon for admins of some older form of online games to be labeled 'wizards'
Hold it. The mod chips themselves are not a piracy issue. they can be used to play copied games. Including, say, that one legitimately made backup copy you are allowed to make of software you own. they also allow you to play homebrew games, which honestly I used my consoles more for those then any of the legit commercial games I bought. this is the equivliant of saying because I put a CD-R burner into my laptop, that it is piracy. No, it isn't. it's an upgrade to equipment I supposedly own.
If you feel that you can't do it in the full view of the public, then you are feeling shame. Either because society thinks what you are doing is wierd...
or what you are doing is wrong. I think I know which this qualifies as.
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you really haven't seen the kind of stuff coming out of congress lately, have you?
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They only noticed after three weeks?
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Well...
On the flip side, finding out they were doing all this cloak and dagger spying is quite a wake up call, no? It is rather telling they went to such lengths to obscure their actions because they knew there would be backlash, legal loopholes or not.
Also, as a curiosity, if all encryption for communications by telecoms (including ISPs I assume) done by businesses located in the UK have to be decryptable on warrant, what does this do to things like, say, Amazon.uk or any banking website using SSL?
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Secret dealings:
If you feel that you can't do it in the full view of the public, then you are feeling shame. Either because society thinks what you are doing is wierd...
or what you are doing is wrong. I think I know which this qualifies as.
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