Brian’s Comments

• Nov 9th, 2016 @ 3:44pm

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  on Colorado Voters Continue To Shoot Down Awful Comcast-Written Protectionist State Law

  "The lowest percentage of "yes" vote was Woodland Park in Teller County with 55 percent."

  That's probably because of a small, local ISP that services the area offering gigabit speeds.

• Jun 7th, 2016 @ 1:13pm

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  on FBI Sends Computer Information Collected By Its Hacking Tools In Unencrypted Form Over The Open Internet
  "Had the data been transmitted in an encrypted format the data stream would be of no evidentiary value as it could not be analyzed."
  
  Does this suggest that the NIT they used required this data to be transmitted in the open so that they could intercept it at another point?
• Jan 6th, 2016 @ 12:37pm

  Re: Better Idea

  on Pioneer In Internet Anonymity Hands FBI A Huge Gift In Building Dangerous Backdoored Encryption System
  Breaking the key apart is "security through obfuscation". Breaking it into more parts increases the level of obfuscation, but anything that relies on "security through obfuscation", no matter the level of obscurity, it can be reversed engineered.
• Dec 15th, 2015 @ 9:19am

  Re: need or want (repost)

  on Comcast CEO: It's Not A Broadband Cap, It's A 'Balanced Relationship'
  I work from home as software developer. My internet access is completely necessary so I would be unable to boycott without missing work.
  
  Try to think outside of your own viewpoint and realize that something that may be true for you is not true for someone else!
• Dec 4th, 2015 @ 11:10am

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  on DOJ Pretty Sure The Problem With The Criminal Justice System Is Everyone Else
  "It could mean they are choosing their battles carefully and efficiently as they should be."
  
  When their weapons for battle are overly broad, punitive, and numerous (double-jeopardy) laws, then they can efficiently "administer justice" by the letter of the law (but rarely the spirit).
• Nov 16th, 2015 @ 11:03am

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  on FCC Refuses To Force Websites To Adhere To 'Do Not Track,' And That's A Good Thing
  "...consumers can choose not to use Google or Facebook"
  
  I disagree. While we can explicitly not use their "direct" services, like going to Facebook.com, it's harder to not use their "indirect" services where many 3rd-party websites implement their code (ads, Google Analytics, FB Comments, etc).
• Nov 11th, 2015 @ 8:51am

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  on Colorado Residents Vote Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Municipal Broadband
  Anyone find it odd that Comcast is not rolling out it's "fairness" program in any Colorado locations? /s
• Sep 28th, 2015 @ 11:32am

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  on Rightscorp's Copyright Trolling Phone Script Tells Innocent People They Need To Give Their Computers To Police
  Call center employees are not the brightest. My guess is they believe what they are reading.
• Aug 25th, 2015 @ 3:17pm

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  on AT&T Injecting Ads Into Its Wi-Fi Hotspot Data Streams
  "[..] loads the page via the hotspot, then make three edits [..]"
  
  Maybe website owners should go after the ISPs for copyright violations.
• Aug 13th, 2015 @ 9:13am

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  on New Hampshire Law Banning Ballot Selfies Struck Down As Unconstitutional
  They could go the same way that they have with currencies. Ask manufactures of cameras to voluntary adhere to the EURion Constellation and have the software blur the ballot. Of course, I would be annoyed by this as a consumer, but it solves the issue of impeding on free speech because it becomes an issue between the user and the company selling the camera.
• Jul 16th, 2015 @ 1:40pm

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  on East Texas Court Finally Issues Newegg Order Two Years Late; Judge Upset About How Newegg Handled Things
  This clerical error could have easily been avoided with basic workflow technology where all parties to a case can see the current status of motions and rulings. Newegg would have been able to see that there was an order staying the case and could have made contact asking why and it would have been resolved right then-and-there.
• Jun 24th, 2015 @ 11:51am

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  on Google Was Gagged For Four Years From Talking About Fighting The Wikileaks Investigation
  What if Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc setup "profile canaries" for each user. That way, each user can see if the government is snooping around.
• May 6th, 2015 @ 4:15pm

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  on Appeals Court Rejects Labels' Collusion Scheme To Try To Force Pandora To Pay Higher Rates
  "Powerful corporate interests, like Pandora, are determined to stand in the way of meaningful music licensing reform so that they may continue to shortchange songwriters." --- ASCAP CEO Beth Matthews response (found on their website)
  
  Interesting that she's playing the "powerful corporate" card against Pandora... I guess I was wrong about the (weak!?) music labels being the ones that "shortchange songwriters"...
• Mar 9th, 2015 @ 2:35pm

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  on Blackburn Bill Attempts To Gut New Net Neutrality Rules. You Know, For Freedom.
  At least she left loop holes for national security and the police...
• Feb 13th, 2015 @ 1:11pm

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  on Megaupload Programmer Takes Plea Deal, Though It's Still Unclear What Criminal Law He Violated
  Should an engineer who designs a gun be put in prison because he knows that sometimes it will be used for criminal activity?
• Feb 11th, 2015 @ 8:37am

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  on Miami Cops Flood Waze With Bogus Speed Trap Data, Don't Understand How Crowd Sourcing Works
  Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 5A: Knowingly causes the transmission of a [...] command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
  
  I would like a prosecutor to get them for a CFAA violation, because we all know how it can be applied broadly... I would argue that the servers they sent their commands to were protected computers (need user account), they subsequently caused damage to the data (false reports), and all of that was unauthorized (Waze terms of service).