Hunter S. Thompson once imagined he could see the crest of hippie culture along the Rocky Mountains before its eventual recession
Actually it was in the mountains to the west of Vegas:
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
The Rockys pass through Utah into Colorado much further East. Thompson was probably looking at the Spring Mountains.
Is it? So the paper doesn't have an official editorial stance but allows its writers to express their own opinions; is that really a bad thing for journalism?
Anyone who ever says "To protect our intellectual property"...
...should be forced to explain exactly what they are protecting it from, and how the measure that they are proposing is related to and will achieve that end.
It appears that may well have been the case. ElReg has a slightly less confused (TrueCrypt account, lol) take on the story, which mentions:
While detained ahead of his trial, Glenn made a phone call to his mother in which he asked her to relay a request to tell his housemate in Honduras "to disconnect the black box with the blinking lights on top of the batteries."
The prosecution states that this "black box" was the Synology storage device containing the TrueCrypt compartment with the stolen documents. It also alleges that "the reason [he] tried to send a message to [the housemate] to disconnect the black box is because he wanted to prevent law enforcement from discovering what the Synology contained."
Re: Re: Re: Re: This would never happen in America, because....
For more recent information about this never happening in America, google what the DoJ have been doing to James Risen of the NYT for the past seven years.
If you look at other complaints from NBC / Universal in that list, you'll see lots of URLs similar to (e.g.) "http://127.0.0.1:4001/?f=155981622851235502f234201111b20d".
These are the format of file-download URLs used by the Cacaoweb collaboration / file-sharing software, which runs a local webserver to provide access to content hosted on its overlay network. So I think somebody's been searching for pirated content on that while being completely clueless about how it works.
All Craigslist or Backpage need is a quick tweak to their terms-of-service to make clear that law enforcement may not use their site for the purpose of identifying prostitutes, and presto! Dart is committing criminal 'unauthorised access' and can be jailed.
(He could work around that by getting a search warrant, but he'd have to do it individually for every advertiser he wanted to investigate, and does anyone really think he's likely to do that?)
Based on tortious interference with Backpage's business relationships, that's what.
The government shouldn't be allowed to go around "just suggesting" that people don't do business with you, because every governmental "suggestion" comes with the implied threat of force (legal or otherwise) to back it up.
Schloegel's actions after the deletion should be considered.
Ok, even if you do accidentally scroll through the menus to the messages, and accidentally scroll down to the delete read messages option, and accidentally select delete all, and accidentally select OK when it asks if you're sure, ...
... well even if all that happened, surely if it was an accident, you'd take your phone to the office IT guy and ask if he could do anything to recover your deleted messages? That would clearly demonstrate your bona fides. Whereas if you just shut up and said nothing about this terrible unfortunate accident to anyone until it was dragged out of you months later, that might imply dishonesty.
I wonder what Schloegel did in the immediate aftermath of his 'accident'?
Funny how his declaration says nothing about that.
When I was a kid in the '70s, loads of paperbacks in the UK had a warning on the frontispiece saying that the book was not for sale or resale in the USA, which I was given to understand was something to do with your excessively-lax copyright regime.
Wow! Seriously? The CIA has a serious problem with the First Amendment.
DUDE! The CIA has a problem with democracy.
John Brennan did not "[make] a complete fool of himself". He let the mask slip. He has the mindset of a totalitarian - and he is seeking the tools and power to implement his vision of how things should be run.
... the first footage showing government ministers or assemblymen patronising a massage parlour is leaked. Then they'll suddenly discover that it was a terrible invasion of privacy all along.
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You misremembered that Thompson quote.
Actually it was in the mountains to the west of Vegas:
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
The Rockys pass through Utah into Colorado much further East. Thompson was probably looking at the Spring Mountains.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22)
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God, what a stupid, worthless idea in the first place.
Whadda maroon!
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*The* Larry Klayman?
Damn. That's bad news.
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>"this is not about protecting intellectual-property rights"
Infosec researchers are not reversing Oracle's software in order to pirate it.
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>"a little difficult to take it seriously"
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Anyone who ever says "To protect our intellectual property"...
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> "If the hidden volume was still mounted"
While detained ahead of his trial, Glenn made a phone call to his mother in which he asked her to relay a request to tell his housemate in Honduras "to disconnect the black box with the blinking lights on top of the batteries."
The prosecution states that this "black box" was the Synology storage device containing the TrueCrypt compartment with the stolen documents. It also alleges that "the reason [he] tried to send a message to [the housemate] to disconnect the black box is because he wanted to prevent law enforcement from discovering what the Synology contained."
That sounds to me like he tried and failed to dismount it. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/04/truecrypt_decrypted_by_fbi/ for details.
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A modest proposal.
Preferably just when its senior executives are visiting the country, so that they can be seized and interned in a PoW camp.
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>" If you work for the WSJ, your editorial independence just got shot down."
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This would never happen in America, because....
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Probably not malware
These are the format of file-download URLs used by the Cacaoweb collaboration / file-sharing software, which runs a local webserver to provide access to content hosted on its overlay network. So I think somebody's been searching for pirated content on that while being completely clueless about how it works.
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Those who do not remember Usenet are doomed to repeat it.
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Spotted a typo.
There's no hyphen in the word "inaction"!
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At last, a valid use for the CFAA!
(He could work around that by getting a search warrant, but he'd have to do it individually for every advertiser he wanted to investigate, and does anyone really think he's likely to do that?)
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Re: Re: A lawsuit based on what?
The government shouldn't be allowed to go around "just suggesting" that people don't do business with you, because every governmental "suggestion" comes with the implied threat of force (legal or otherwise) to back it up.
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Schloegel's actions after the deletion should be considered.
... well even if all that happened, surely if it was an accident, you'd take your phone to the office IT guy and ask if he could do anything to recover your deleted messages? That would clearly demonstrate your bona fides. Whereas if you just shut up and said nothing about this terrible unfortunate accident to anyone until it was dragged out of you months later, that might imply dishonesty.
I wonder what Schloegel did in the immediate aftermath of his 'accident'?
Funny how his declaration says nothing about that.
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The name is Bond, ...
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How times change.
The mind fair boggles at the thought of it now!
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It's not just the First Amendment.
John Brennan did not "[make] a complete fool of himself". He let the mask slip. He has the mindset of a totalitarian - and he is seeking the tools and power to implement his vision of how things should be run.
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This law will last precisely until...
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