It was too specific to be an accident... unless lawyers treat "I am dumb and do not deserve my JD degree" as "accidents". Lawyers pull this shit ALL THE TIME with the intentions of scaring or scamming people. If they are saying it was an accident, then they are pulling their pants back up in a hurry.
The ISP threat contains the wording "PLEASE NOTIFY US WITHIN 24 HOURS WITH TAKEN ACTIONS". They did NOT say what actions need to be taken, other than to notify them. So notify them of exactly what actions were taken. Say "We have removed each piece of content listed in the referenced complaint. Since there were no items listed in the referenced complaint (see the referenced complaint yourself and you will see there there are none), there were no items removed and we have asked the complainant to provide us with the list. We will provide you with a copy of that list when we receive it. If you receive the list before we do, please send a copy of it to us as quickly as possible so we may act on it. For now, our actions are therefore complete.".
If they do that, then they must not charge the customer any more money. Many ISPs, however, have reacted to customers abandoning them due to invalid takedowns by charging them with the remainder of the contract, and sending that out to debt collectors. These are ISPs that need to be boycotted when they do things like this as a result of invalid takedowns.
I agree that DMCA takedowns need teeth, and harsh penalties for abusing it. However, personal experience tells me we need takedowns of infringing material.
Yes, we need both. But we also need DMCA takedowns that make sense (this one did not since it lacked detail), and we also need DMCA takedowns that are not abused. Add to that, we need DMCA takedowns that can be verified (there must be a real person that can be immediately contacted about it).
If someone posts my book on a commercial site I'll be issuing more (noncommercial use, including torrents, will be free). But bullshit like Comcast is pulling should result in someone's incarceration.
So do we have your support in making a law that counter balances the highly abusable DMCA?
If YOU could read the guy's post, then that would be the WRONG place for him to put the details about how to reproduce it. Facebook engineers should have contacted HIM, directly, by a secure means, to get those details. If Facebook engineers expect exploits to be posted in a public forum, then it is THEY who are doing this wrong.
Computers cannot understand anything. Nothing can understand people. And someone expected computers to somehow understand people? Now that's a corner case for ya.
You have proof of that? How often do the guns make the decision to shoot? The reality is, the people who choose to shoot other people with guns, or otherwise hurt them with other tools, are where the evil comes from. And no, I am not a Republican.
They are not US government employees. Most are contractors (e.g. via Booz Allen Hamilton, like Mr. Snowden was). Some might be military. IMHO that might be part of the problem, there.
They have 1000. So they want to downscale to 100. Of course that means they either have to downscale their data, too (won't happen) or upscale how much each sysadmin has access to.
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... any browser in BSD and Linux? Or will the government be forcing me to buy another computer since I want things to be secure?
It was too specific to be an accident ... unless lawyers treat "I am dumb and do not deserve my JD degree" as "accidents". Lawyers pull this shit ALL THE TIME with the intentions of scaring or scamming people. If they are saying it was an accident, then they are pulling their pants back up in a hurry.
The ISP threat contains the wording "PLEASE NOTIFY US WITHIN 24 HOURS WITH TAKEN ACTIONS". They did NOT say what actions need to be taken, other than to notify them. So notify them of exactly what actions were taken. Say "We have removed each piece of content listed in the referenced complaint. Since there were no items listed in the referenced complaint (see the referenced complaint yourself and you will see there there are none), there were no items removed and we have asked the complainant to provide us with the list. We will provide you with a copy of that list when we receive it. If you receive the list before we do, please send a copy of it to us as quickly as possible so we may act on it. For now, our actions are therefore complete.".
If they do that, then they must not charge the customer any more money. Many ISPs, however, have reacted to customers abandoning them due to invalid takedowns by charging them with the remainder of the contract, and sending that out to debt collectors. These are ISPs that need to be boycotted when they do things like this as a result of invalid takedowns.
I agree that DMCA takedowns need teeth, and harsh penalties for abusing it. However, personal experience tells me we need takedowns of infringing material.
Yes, we need both. But we also need DMCA takedowns that make sense (this one did not since it lacked detail), and we also need DMCA takedowns that are not abused. Add to that, we need DMCA takedowns that can be verified (there must be a real person that can be immediately contacted about it).
If someone posts my book on a commercial site I'll be issuing more (noncommercial use, including torrents, will be free). But bullshit like Comcast is pulling should result in someone's incarceration.
So do we have your support in making a law that counter balances the highly abusable DMCA?
... and keep it forever and nothing you can do about it. I can post it on the internet and nothing you can do about it.
And then they will get away with it because cops don't care about enforcing laws that apply to cops.
#4 fire whoever is responsible for him being ignored.
If YOU could read the guy's post, then that would be the WRONG place for him to put the details about how to reproduce it. Facebook engineers should have contacted HIM, directly, by a secure means, to get those details. If Facebook engineers expect exploits to be posted in a public forum, then it is THEY who are doing this wrong.
Computers cannot understand anything. Nothing can understand people. And someone expected computers to somehow understand people? Now that's a corner case for ya.
I'll take it and host his pages.
Actually, Yahoo is trying to commit suicide. I suggest we encourage that.
It was shit a lot more than just a few years ago.
You have proof of that? How often do the guns make the decision to shoot? The reality is, the people who choose to shoot other people with guns, or otherwise hurt them with other tools, are where the evil comes from. And no, I am not a Republican.
... you would want to work for.
They are not US government employees. Most are contractors (e.g. via Booz Allen Hamilton, like Mr. Snowden was). Some might be military. IMHO that might be part of the problem, there.
They have 1000. So they want to downscale to 100. Of course that means they either have to downscale their data, too (won't happen) or upscale how much each sysadmin has access to.
Maybe they should be cutting the contractors they hire, and limit themselves to in-house staff.
Booz Allen Hamilton
... all solid state in my laptop. I hate hybrids.
... the rate of use of HTTPS and VPNs is going up.
Make sure you use encryption.
I want you to have one. You obviously need a new caps lock key.
Or maybe add in an ability to use sunlight as the display back lighting.
May I recommend voting for anything but Democrat or Republican? You'll get screwed either way with one of those two.