But first, do you want to become a professional litigant? Sure, telemarketers are annoying scum, but it's not so
honourable to make a big habit out of suing people, either.
That said, I've sued people and been sued, in the NSW Residential Tribunal, which is like a local court except all the
rules and procedures are dumbed down, and the Magistrate has much less power. I have to say it was an awesomely fun
experience, but it does take a lot of time. The time spent in court is the least of it - I can understand the people
in long court cases where the court case basically becomes their whole life. So, a caveat: don't let it rule you.
My advice is:
Be in the right. Don't litigate stuff where you are in the wrong, instead work toward a settlement.
Develop a legal strategy. This is basically the algorithm for your victory.
Read the law. Lots of it. It's not that hard. Find the law which backs up your argument, and cases
where the facts were similar and the judgement was what you wanted, and remember them. Use them to refine
your argument. Quote them in court as needed.
Also read the law which doesn't back up your argument. Does it defeat your argument? Are you going
to lose? Don't go into court on a losing proposition.
When I won, the other party didn't pay up. So I learned all about how to have a court's judgement
enforced. I got the bulk of the money owed, and eventually settled on the remainder.
The Freedom, and the Principle, are important. If you voluntarily give up the Freedom by compromising your principles,
then whether it's practical or not becomes irrelevant.
I'm not talking about the GPL specifically, I'm talking about the Freedoms.
OSX is denying the user one of the fundamental Freedoms. Although it is not the worst offender (*cough microsoft cough*) it is moving in the same direction as Vista. The user is not fully in control of the computer system. There are parts of the computer system about which the user is not permitted to know.
Encrypted binaries subvert GNU's Freedom #1 "freedom to study the source code and modify it to do as you wish". Even though the source is not available, binaries can be reverse-engineered (and this is explicitly permitted by copyright law, for interoperability purposes)... but not if it's been encrypted.
Pointed out that it's possible to forge a boarding pass,
Made it easy to do
Outlined a technique to utilise the forged document.
The fact of #1 is self-evident. People have been forging documents for thousands of years, and boarding passes
are clearly not the most difficult to forge. So it should not be a crime that he has done so.
#2 is more problematic. Chris has put himself into the position of a forger, a person who supplies fake drivers
licenses and birth certificates. Supplying fake drivers licenses is illegal, even if the license isn't used, even
if no money is exchanged.
#3 is, hopefully, a charge which will be thrown out of court. This is the bane of every security researcher: the
possibility that describing the vulnerability will lead to civil or criminal liability. After all, the basic proof
that a vulnerability is real, is the documented method of exploiting it.
I met a guy with that condition once. Actually, I hired him to teach a course. Before I learned of his condition.
While teaching the course his voice was like a hoarse whisper. He characterised it as having "forgotten" how to speak. But while telling the class about his voice, he said he could sing. And suddenly as singing his voice was loud and strong.
Simple business controls would eliminate that risk. Like ensuring that the person with the ability to set or change the hard drive image cannot be the person who also checks its integrity.
But releasing the source code for a machine which can only run signed binaries is defeating one of the fundamental freedoms - the freedom to change the program, and run changed versions.
They're few and far between. I'm in AU and they probably don't work here. WWV from Colorado and Hawaii can be a bit faint here.
Our local WWV equivalent (VNG) stopped broadcasting a few years ago after running out of funding (even though private individuals were able to keep it paid up for a while) and the ancient equipment became unmaintainable.
I believe the official story is that VNG has been obsoleted by GPS. Certainly GPS can give an accurate time signal but the GPS watches are very bulky and expensive; it might be possible to cheaply build a watch which receives a single GPS signal without the expensive triangulation calculations, for a medium-accuracy time signal.
Caller-id over bluetooth is just a gimmick. But since it's a watch which can communicate with the outside world,
when are we going to get around to designing a watch which addresses the fundamentals - accuracy (+/- 0.1 second/day),
self-adjusting (using NTP or WWV or another time source), correct calendars (leap years) and summer time zone support?
Most watches with calendars understand leap years. Except for the really expensive Tissot T-touch (the watch with a touch screen, which has inbuilt altimeter, compass and barometer, and which Angelina Jolie wore on Mr & Mrs Smith).
The T-touch doesn't store the year and so requires manual adjustment on the 1st of March on the 3 out of every 4 years which are NOT leap years. How stupid is that?
Self-adjusting watches should be a doddle since we can build USB and/or bluetooth into the watch. Even a simple time signal receiver could mean that the watch could set itself (just configure the timezone yourself) and maintain accuracy for years.
The first scratch which causes the needle to jump the groove will kill this "phenomenon".
They might be buying vinyl for the "look", and listening to the music on MP3s. There must be
more useful artefacts they could purchase. Buying vinyl is like printing out the band's website.
Perhaps because the first bug you mentioned was posted 4 months ago, you can resolve it by upgrading your kernel, and almost nobody would run an application chrooted under an SMBFS network filesystem anyway.
The second bug is only a DOS, it won't give an attacker sweet r00t permissions. And it's also 4 months old news.
The third bug doesn't result in any privilege escalation because the kextload program isn't setuid, you'd need to find some other vulnerability in a program which uses kextload.
And the fourth bug is a month old already, hasn't been proven to be exploitable (more likely to simply crash firefox), and is easily resolved by upgrading firefox.
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The package pricing seems to include a full copy of one of several parts of the collection, and costs several thousand dollars.
Steve Irwin promoted tourism by demonstrating the "wild" part of "wildlife".
You'd have to agree that's a fitting way for a "crocodile dundee" to die - much
more respectable than, say, being run over in the street by a drunk driver, or choking to death on a peanut.
Probably a lot of people wish they'd lived a lifestyle like him, but he actually did it day in, day out. Just an accident, but I doubt he would have wanted to die in an aged nursing home.
Perhaps the courts consider evidence destruction is prima facie evidence of guilt.
From www.pacga.org... whether the evidence was destroyed in bad faith matters...
From www.ago.state.ne.us... "The rule applicable to evidence destruction cases is that a defendant need only show the disposed of evidence was clearly material to the issue of guilt or innocence."
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That said, I've sued people and been sued, in the NSW Residential Tribunal, which is like a local court except all the rules and procedures are dumbed down, and the Magistrate has much less power. I have to say it was an awesomely fun experience, but it does take a lot of time. The time spent in court is the least of it - I can understand the people in long court cases where the court case basically becomes their whole life. So, a caveat: don't let it rule you.
My advice is:
When I won, the other party didn't pay up. So I learned all about how to have a court's judgement enforced. I got the bulk of the money owed, and eventually settled on the remainder.
If you think it's so easy to do, go ahead and make up better definitions of freedom and submit them to the FSF.
OSX is denying the user one of the fundamental Freedoms. Although it is not the worst offender (*cough microsoft cough*) it is moving in the same direction as Vista. The user is not fully in control of the computer system. There are parts of the computer system about which the user is not permitted to know.
The fact of #1 is self-evident. People have been forging documents for thousands of years, and boarding passes are clearly not the most difficult to forge. So it should not be a crime that he has done so.
#2 is more problematic. Chris has put himself into the position of a forger, a person who supplies fake drivers licenses and birth certificates. Supplying fake drivers licenses is illegal, even if the license isn't used, even if no money is exchanged.
#3 is, hopefully, a charge which will be thrown out of court. This is the bane of every security researcher: the possibility that describing the vulnerability will lead to civil or criminal liability. After all, the basic proof that a vulnerability is real, is the documented method of exploiting it.
It's not a trademark, it's our culture that is being promoted.
While teaching the course his voice was like a hoarse whisper. He characterised it as having "forgotten" how to speak. But while telling the class about his voice, he said he could sing. And suddenly as singing his voice was loud and strong.
I wished he did that for the whole course.
It doesn't sound so difficult to get it right.
They're few and far between. I'm in AU and they probably don't work here. WWV from Colorado and Hawaii can be a bit faint here.
Our local WWV equivalent (VNG) stopped broadcasting a few years ago after running out of funding (even though private individuals were able to keep it paid up for a while) and the ancient equipment became unmaintainable.
I believe the official story is that VNG has been obsoleted by GPS. Certainly GPS can give an accurate time signal but the GPS watches are very bulky and expensive; it might be possible to cheaply build a watch which receives a single GPS signal without the expensive triangulation calculations, for a medium-accuracy time signal.
Caller-id over bluetooth is just a gimmick. But since it's a watch which can communicate with the outside world, when are we going to get around to designing a watch which addresses the fundamentals - accuracy (+/- 0.1 second/day), self-adjusting (using NTP or WWV or another time source), correct calendars (leap years) and summer time zone support?
Most watches with calendars understand leap years. Except for the really expensive Tissot T-touch (the watch with a touch screen, which has inbuilt altimeter, compass and barometer, and which Angelina Jolie wore on Mr & Mrs Smith). The T-touch doesn't store the year and so requires manual adjustment on the 1st of March on the 3 out of every 4 years which are NOT leap years. How stupid is that?
Self-adjusting watches should be a doddle since we can build USB and/or bluetooth into the watch. Even a simple time signal receiver could mean that the watch could set itself (just configure the timezone yourself) and maintain accuracy for years.
They might be buying vinyl for the "look", and listening to the music on MP3s. There must be more useful artefacts they could purchase. Buying vinyl is like printing out the band's website.
The second bug is only a DOS, it won't give an attacker sweet r00t permissions. And it's also 4 months old news.
The third bug doesn't result in any privilege escalation because the kextload program isn't setuid, you'd need to find some other vulnerability in a program which uses kextload.
And the fourth bug is a month old already, hasn't been proven to be exploitable (more likely to simply crash firefox), and is easily resolved by upgrading firefox.
The package pricing seems to include a full copy of one of several parts of the collection, and costs several thousand dollars.
Computers need to be secured too!
My HTML toolbox is otherwise empty.
When I posted, the "Steve Irwin is Dead" story didn't exist. Check the timestamps, my post was posted 1 minute before the Irwin story.
You'd have to agree that's a fitting way for a "crocodile dundee" to die - much more respectable than, say, being run over in the street by a drunk driver, or choking to death on a peanut.
Probably a lot of people wish they'd lived a lifestyle like him, but he actually did it day in, day out. Just an accident, but I doubt he would have wanted to die in an aged nursing home.
So now ICANN has legalised domain name extortion.
What the hell happened to the fundamentals of a domain name representing a company or organisation, or even an individual?
From www.ago.state.ne.us ... "The rule applicable to evidence destruction cases is that a defendant need only show the disposed of evidence was clearly material to the issue of guilt or innocence."