well, imho open source was a way for people who *had* some jobs to release their work to the world so that others would not block out their creative source and profit from it.. I think one of the weakness of this is that it does not prevent others from profiting from it as long as the source is bundled. So people like libranet are justified in their extra work in collecting latest sources and charging for it..
Now what could happen is that people could just
accept the certificates and then SUE verisign for
not providing what they were supposed to...
could that be possible?
Normal 'speech' = Person Vs. Person. Code 'speech' = Person Vs. Computer. Code IS a lingual thing. But the algorithm is TOTALLY different thing. It is kind of difficult to separate 'code' and 'algorithm'.
The thing that this was done by a former employee is what makes this stuff, something more helpful for the legal guys. dont you think? i mean if this was done by some outsider, then it would be a case similar to the stolen 30K cc's. But i dunno how they could classify l0phtcrack as a theft tool. does it make the nic go into promiscuous mode, or some similar restricted methods. but even if this was done by an outsider, i think it would be difficult to prosecute just bcos of the tools he is using. i mean cant it easily be overthrown, as a software 'feature'. and just look at the legal guys comparing it with the real world.. "These crimes were the high-tech equivalent of physically breaking into a business and stealing valuable documents from a locked file cabinet," well, not EXACTlY, except that the cabinet is made of paper, and it gives u the secrets if u ask 'open sesame'.
somone mentioned www.loveusa.com as one of the possible places.. in www.loveusa.com, checkout the link called "The Recipe For LOVE!" in the front page. maybe the kid thought of recipes as the best option.., and it has a couple hugging, so maybe... who knows what the kid figured out...
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well, imho open source was a way for people who *had* some jobs to release their work to the world so that others would not block out their creative source and profit from it.. I think one of the weakness of this is that it does not prevent others from profiting from it as long as the source is bundled. So people like libranet are justified in their extra work in collecting latest sources and charging for it..
Now what could happen is that people could just accept the certificates and then SUE verisign for not providing what they were supposed to... could that be possible?
Normal 'speech' = Person Vs. Person. Code 'speech' = Person Vs. Computer. Code IS a lingual thing. But the algorithm is TOTALLY different thing. It is kind of difficult to separate 'code' and 'algorithm'.
The thing that this was done by a former employee is what makes this stuff, something more helpful for the legal guys. dont you think? i mean if this was done by some outsider, then it would be a case similar to the stolen 30K cc's. But i dunno how they could classify l0phtcrack as a theft tool. does it make the nic go into promiscuous mode, or some similar restricted methods. but even if this was done by an outsider, i think it would be difficult to prosecute just bcos of the tools he is using. i mean cant it easily be overthrown, as a software 'feature'. and just look at the legal guys comparing it with the real world.. "These crimes were the high-tech equivalent of physically breaking into a business and stealing valuable documents from a locked file cabinet," well, not EXACTlY, except that the cabinet is made of paper, and it gives u the secrets if u ask 'open sesame'.
somone mentioned www.loveusa.com as one of the possible places.. in www.loveusa.com, checkout the link called "The Recipe For LOVE!" in the front page. maybe the kid thought of recipes as the best option.., and it has a couple hugging, so maybe... who knows what the kid figured out...
just my $.02. guess bills photo can now be split with the laser side, of bills, and the other side of balmers... i dunno how the morph will result..