"I would have thought that if I commission an artist to produce a particular work, and I pay that artist the agreed fee, then I am the sole owner of the said work with all rights attached, including copyright."
In the US, this would not be true. You would have to have the creator of the work explicitly sign the rights over to you.
This most commonly burns people who get their family photos taken at a professional studio -- they assume that they own the pictures they paid for. But they don't, the photographer does.
"This isn't a new problem, it's just newly uncovered."
True, but in a very particular way: it's only relatively recently that white-bread middle Americans have been in the crosshairs in a systematic way, so it's only relatively recently that they have discovered there's a problem.
Re: Looks like the legislators want Encryption for Me not for Thee
Not a problem, really, since you don't need a device manufacturer to provide the encryption built in. You can add it yourself after purchase, and (if done properly) there is nothing the government or manufacturer can do about it.
All of this just underscores an important point: built in encryption is a good thing, but you have to be able to trust whoever it is that put the crypto system in. Legislation like this just means that you can trust manufacturers even less than you could before. And trusting manufacturers or service providers has always been a pretty bad security practice.
"I don't think "everyone knew this" prior to the advent of so much smartphone video evidence."
Maybe not a lot of middle America really believed it, but they certainly had heard the news. But everyone in the judicial and criminal justice system has known that cops are liars for longer than I've been alive.
The reason that law enforcement is so allergic to getting warrants is not because they find the process difficult. It's because getting a warrant results in a paper trail.
Although giving the cops permission to perform any search whatsoever is a much bigger risk, in my opinion, than refusing. The search is happening no matter what anyway, but if you give them permission to do it then you have reduced the amount of possible recourse in court available to you later.
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"Your comments show a general ignorance of the legal system"
I think his comments show a general mistrust of the ability of the legal system to make proper decisions rather than an ignorance of how the system works.
But that's not the software generating random numbers (something that is impossible with the sorts of computers we use). It's just the software reading a number from a device.
If that's what the TSA was paying for, then one would think that they would have said so. Also, I don't see any hardware plugged into those tablets.
Not only is decapping the processor within the budget of multinational corporations, it's also within the capabilities and budget of hobbyists. You can find several youtube videos of people doing this.
But, as That One Guy said, the feds have clearly lied their asses off one way or another on this matter.
I think the most remarkable accomplishment from the FBI is that they managed to take their already terrible reputation and make it even worse.
Literally nothing about plea deals serve justice. Plea deals let the guilty get of with a lighter punishment than they should, and railroad the innocent into being punished for things they didn't do.
They are as clear of a corruption of the notion of justice as you can get.
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Re: Who's the copyright holder?
In the US, this would not be true. You would have to have the creator of the work explicitly sign the rights over to you.
This most commonly burns people who get their family photos taken at a professional studio -- they assume that they own the pictures they paid for. But they don't, the photographer does.
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The amount of computing power that is wasted for no good reason is stupendously mindblowing. I don't see any sign that this will change anytime soon.
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Toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe.
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Re: The state residents have the key to this issue in their hands...
It's a sad comment on the state of American democracy that there are so few alternatives to voting for those representatives.
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True, but in a very particular way: it's only relatively recently that white-bread middle Americans have been in the crosshairs in a systematic way, so it's only relatively recently that they have discovered there's a problem.
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This is precisely what I do, and have done since my very first smartphone.
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Re: Looks like the legislators want Encryption for Me not for Thee
All of this just underscores an important point: built in encryption is a good thing, but you have to be able to trust whoever it is that put the crypto system in. Legislation like this just means that you can trust manufacturers even less than you could before. And trusting manufacturers or service providers has always been a pretty bad security practice.
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Re: Re: Your word against ours
Maybe not a lot of middle America really believed it, but they certainly had heard the news. But everyone in the judicial and criminal justice system has known that cops are liars for longer than I've been alive.
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They are part of the online advertising industry's ongoing and evolving efforts to be the most obnoxious companies on the internet.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Improper raids aren't a bug, they're a feature....
I think his comments show a general mistrust of the ability of the legal system to make proper decisions rather than an ignorance of how the system works.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Price Is Right-ish.
If that's what the TSA was paying for, then one would think that they would have said so. Also, I don't see any hardware plugged into those tablets.
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But, as That One Guy said, the feds have clearly lied their asses off one way or another on this matter.
I think the most remarkable accomplishment from the FBI is that they managed to take their already terrible reputation and make it even worse.
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Literally nothing about plea deals serve justice. Plea deals let the guilty get of with a lighter punishment than they should, and railroad the innocent into being punished for things they didn't do.
They are as clear of a corruption of the notion of justice as you can get.
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