So Mandiant published something?
What the frig is APT1?
This video is entertaining
AI and Voter Engagement
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Breaking Terms of Service should *NOT* be a federal crime!
This stream from the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law school is a speech from Jennifer Granick from EFF discussing the CFAA
The discussion gelled when Aaron Swartz committed suicide after being harassed by the Federal DA in Boston, illustrating prosecutorial misconduct against a citizen at its worst, and there are plenty more where this came from. Zoe Lofgren is introducing Aaron's Law to help fix this
CFAA states, among other things, "... exceeds authorized access is a federal crime" - does this make any sense any more? Even worse, the federal appeals courts are split on the broad vs narrow interpretation of this statement.
A generation of people who are under 18 and using GMAIL, anyone letting someone log into their facebook account, or on a dating site describing themselves as "tall, dark, and handsome", should not be federal criminals.
This is not an example from an extremist - it's from the 9th federal court of appeals. I think this is it
Support the EFF in their fight to fix the CFAA!
Update: Awesome - A bill to make cell phone unlocking legal
The discussion gelled when Aaron Swartz committed suicide after being harassed by the Federal DA in Boston, illustrating prosecutorial misconduct against a citizen at its worst, and there are plenty more where this came from. Zoe Lofgren is introducing Aaron's Law to help fix this
CFAA states, among other things, "... exceeds authorized access is a federal crime" - does this make any sense any more? Even worse, the federal appeals courts are split on the broad vs narrow interpretation of this statement.
A generation of people who are under 18 and using GMAIL, anyone letting someone log into their facebook account, or on a dating site describing themselves as "tall, dark, and handsome", should not be federal criminals.
This is not an example from an extremist - it's from the 9th federal court of appeals. I think this is it
Support the EFF in their fight to fix the CFAA!
Update: Awesome - A bill to make cell phone unlocking legal
Monday, February 4, 2013
Newegg Wins against the patent trolls!
Update May 2013
From Ars Technica - Newegg wins again against the trolls! Take that suckers!
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corporate-troll-alcatel-in-third-patent-appeal-win-this-year/
W00t!
This is really good, and important. Newegg won an important patent victory against Soverain Software, which said they owned the concept of the online shopping cart. Their claims said that anything that used online shopping carts needed to pay them 1%. This is exactly like someone stating that they owned the patent of a real shopping cart, and every store that used one needed to pay them one per cent of the value of its contents.
This is obviously completely bogus, since their earliest patent was filed in 1994, and I worked at Receptive before that. Not only did we have similar shopping carts, but there were tons of them at the time.
Amazon settled, Victoria's Secret settled, lots of the biggies, maybe all of them, but Newegg stood up.
There's a really good article at Ars Technica where they interview the Chief Legal Officer of Newegg, Lee Cheng, who explains what happened, and also that the founder of Newegg, Fred Chang, "an extremely principled guy, " and "We have always been willing to sacrifice tactical gain for strategic success."
I'm so happy there's still an American company who says that.
Hooray!
The software patent system is horribly broken, and companies that stand up for all of our rights can help expose this problem, get it in front of our legislators, and get it fixed.
There is something we all can do - support Newegg ( in spite of my previous problems, I'm giving them another chance ), and support the EFF.
From Ars Technica - Newegg wins again against the trolls! Take that suckers!
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corporate-troll-alcatel-in-third-patent-appeal-win-this-year/
W00t!
This is really good, and important. Newegg won an important patent victory against Soverain Software, which said they owned the concept of the online shopping cart. Their claims said that anything that used online shopping carts needed to pay them 1%. This is exactly like someone stating that they owned the patent of a real shopping cart, and every store that used one needed to pay them one per cent of the value of its contents.
This is obviously completely bogus, since their earliest patent was filed in 1994, and I worked at Receptive before that. Not only did we have similar shopping carts, but there were tons of them at the time.
Amazon settled, Victoria's Secret settled, lots of the biggies, maybe all of them, but Newegg stood up.
There's a really good article at Ars Technica where they interview the Chief Legal Officer of Newegg, Lee Cheng, who explains what happened, and also that the founder of Newegg, Fred Chang, "an extremely principled guy, " and "We have always been willing to sacrifice tactical gain for strategic success."
I'm so happy there's still an American company who says that.
Hooray!
The software patent system is horribly broken, and companies that stand up for all of our rights can help expose this problem, get it in front of our legislators, and get it fixed.
There is something we all can do - support Newegg ( in spite of my previous problems, I'm giving them another chance ), and support the EFF.
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