bosconet’s Comments

• Oct 7th, 2015 @ 4:28pm

  Re:

  on Government Accountability Offices Finds Government Still Mostly Terrible When It Comes To Cybersecurity
  that was an unfinished comment.
  
  Let's consider this, it doesn't matter if they spend the $ for real security or just keep with the status quo. Breaches are now accepted so why bother really fixing anything in a meaningful way.
• Oct 7th, 2015 @ 4:21pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Government Accountability Offices Finds Government Still Mostly Terrible When It Comes To Cybersecurity
  Spend the money
• Dec 13th, 2014 @ 7:21am

  Re: Re: Character witnesses

  on Eric Holder Blinks: Won't Force Reporter James Risen To Reveal Source (Or Send Him To Jail)
  more likely they wanted to avoid bad PR that the only one being prosecuted for state sponsored torture carried out by the CIA was a journalist who blew the whistle.
• Jun 27th, 2014 @ 11:46am

  Deal!

  on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations To Get Out Of Transparency Requests
  SWAT teams claiming private corp status can have it PROVIDED they are also treated as private citizens in all other matters.
• Jun 19th, 2014 @ 6:16am

  Re: How does that work.

  on DC Court Confirms That Government Agents Can Abuse US Citizens' Rights With Impunity If They Leave The Country
  Funny thing, the US is a country that applies its laws to citizens even when on foreign soil. A prime example is the Foreign Corrupt Practices act. Grease a palm in a foreign county, come back home to US and the consequences (assuming you've been caught).
• Nov 25th, 2013 @ 10:09am

  Maybe.....

  on US Gov't Appears To Have Misled The Supreme Court About How The NSA Spied On Americans
  ...the next time US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli appears before the court one of the Justices can ask why they should believe ANYTHING he is saying as he has been proven to mislead the court on at least one previous occasion.
  
  This won't happen of course because apparently executive branch officials can lie to the legislative and judicial branches with no fear of consequences....
• Oct 28th, 2013 @ 9:14am

  Re: Compensation

  on Feds Took Reporter's Notes During Unrelated Search, After They Spotted Documents She Had Obtained Via FOIA
  You make a good point. Given that there is almost zero consequences (especially for individuals responsible) there is very little dis-incentive to not abuse laws.
  
  My dis-incentive to not break the law is I could go to jail, the government's is well.....very little in all too many cases.
• Oct 2nd, 2013 @ 8:02pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Lavabit Details Unsealed: Refused To Hand Over Private SSL Key Despite Court Order & Daily Fines
  the FBI doesn't have a backdoor, the NSA might but isn't sharing.......
• Sep 10th, 2013 @ 6:05am

  Hopkins, APL and contracts

  on Johns Hopkins Demand To Professor To Remove Blog Post Was Over Totally Bogus Concerns
  My guess over what happened is someone at APL saw the post and due to their contracts with NSA and the silly pretense than documents freely available to all are still considered classified contacted JHU to ask for the removal of the post to prevent NSA was accusing APL to leaking classified documents which would put them in breach of contract.
  
  All very dumb yes, but no conspiracy to suppress the post from the internet just from Johns Hopkins associated resources.
• Sep 6th, 2013 @ 6:44pm

  The real tragedy...

  on Fire Sale: TSA Now Offering You Your Civil Liberties For A Fee!
  is even if EVERYONE ponied up $85 it wouldn't reduce the TSA by 1 person......
• Jul 19th, 2013 @ 10:41am

  Re: Re:

  on Overcriminalization: Congressional Research Service Doesn't Have The Manpower To List All Federal Crimes
  EXACTLY!!!!
  
  I think someone needs to document "crimes" committed (innocently) by Federal judges to illustrate that the theory of "ignorance of the law is now excuse" is a hopelessly outdated concept.
• Jul 8th, 2013 @ 1:51pm

  Standing

  on A Secret Court Making Secret Laws? That's No Democracy
  I fear even if a case was was brought to address the constitutionality of the FISA court the courts would toss the action out on the grounds that the plaintiff lakes standing to challenge the statute. You know because plaintiff can't prove they were affected by court.
• Jun 28th, 2013 @ 11:52am

  maybe there is a secret dictionary....

  on Why The NSA's Surveillance Program Is Illegal And Unconstitutional
  that re-defines words like aquire, target and unlimited....it would explain a LOT.
• Jun 25th, 2013 @ 5:29am

  If he had courage.....

  on Rep. Alan Grayson: I've Seen The Details And There Is No Reason To Keep TPP Secret
  He'd read it into the Congressional Record on the floor.
• Dec 10th, 2012 @ 5:58am

  Re: Safety?

  on FCC Boss Tired Of Having To Put His iPad Away For Takeoff, Tells FAA To Fix It
  Using that standard, hardcover books should need to be stowed for take off and landing....oh and lap babies too, need to go under the seat or in the overheard bins for take off and landing.
  
  And honestly the 'I fear they will become projectiles' has to be one of the weakest arguments.
• May 4th, 2012 @ 2:37pm

  Re:

  on FBI Quietly Returns Anonymizing Server It Seized... Without Telling Anyone
  That is almost certainly what they did. However one wonders how much it will help them in my experience most 'forensics' people are clueless with anything but Windows.
• Apr 24th, 2012 @ 10:55am

  One of the big problems with DMCA takedowns....

  on Rush Limbaugh Issues DMCA Takedown To Censor Video Criticism
  is there are no consequences for bogus take down requests. With out any consequences the incentive is to abuse the statute for ones own gain.
• Apr 6th, 2012 @ 8:56am

  Re: Bombs?

  on Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones
  But your laptop is a bomb. Short out that lithium ion battery and BOOM!
• Jan 23rd, 2012 @ 4:32pm

  let's not forget TSA is part of the executive branch

  on TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC
  and by denying Senator Paul access to his flight is effectively preventing a sitting member of the legislative branch from attending to his official duties. This is effectively an abuse of the powers of the Executive branch which is EXACTLY what that section of the Constitution is seeking to restrict.
• Jun 15th, 2011 @ 2:52pm

  Pentagon Paper Insanity

  on ACLU Drags The State Department To Court For Its Failure To Declassify Publicly Available Documents
  Keeping documents classified LONG after they have become public knowledge is nothing new for the US Government. Take a look at the Pentagon Papers that were just declassified 40 years after Daniel Ellsberg leak to the NY Times was published.

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