it's like if they stopped a bunch of trucks on the highway, and scanned every single one of them for nuclear weapons, drugs, and bombs, even though they had no probable cause whatsoever.
the communist government can call it a 'trade secret', i call it a photograph of a prototype. parroting whatever comes out of a govrenment mouthpiece is not the way to maintain 'accuracy' in a news article. case in point, thomas drake indictment said repeatedly he 'gave classified information to a reporter'. he never did, there was no evidence he did, they didnt criminally charge him with doing it, the judge ruled that he didnt do it in any way the government said he did. they just wrote a bunch of shit in the indictment to make him look bad. thats the 'accuracy' you get from following government printouts.
"18 Months In Prison For Selling iPad2 Case Design Secrets"
i like that one, but it still wouldn't fit in the slashdot title editor thing.
"18 months in jail for selling ipad2 case schematics"
i would love to have someone to bash around headlines with everytime i write a story but unfortunately this is not kuro5hin.org, and we get only one opportunity to write the thing.
so you write a headline that sums up the story, then you put the specific charges in quotes. just like the WSJ did.
oh, why didnt i call it a 'leak' case? because there is no legal definition of the term 'leak'. it is a biased and misleading term, that presupposes some sort of criminal activity and has a negative connotation in the reader's mind.
this case is not a whistleblower case, but whistleblower cases are where this bias of the word 'leak' becomes most apparent. a very good description of the problem is in Jesselyn Radack's book (former DOJ lawyer and whistleblower) Canary in the Coalmine. Another example is the Thomas Drake case... . . he was not even charged with disclosure of information, but so many headlines claimed it was a 'leak' case as to bias the public against him. It encouraged what was basically defamatory statements.
Technically, you could call these cases 'spy' cases. We don't usually use that term any more... but 'leak' has been so intermingled that the two are becoming messily intertwined.
I try to avoid using 'leak' in any headline, i try to avoid using it at all really.
What could i have titled this story?
18 months in prison for disclosing image files about the ipad2
18 months in prison for photographing the ipad2
18 months in prison for selling ipad2 info
What were these people doing, though, exactly? They were trying to make ipad2 cases. Those headlines imply stuff that is not there.
I would like to contrast my article with the Agence France Presse article. It said that these people were jailed for giving out information that would enable someone to create a rip-off ipad2. To clone it. This is an utterly ridiculous statement, and yet, there it is, sprayed all over the entire planet, by AFP and its professional reporters and editors.
But look at those alternative headlines I have given up there. If I wrote '18 months in prison for selling ipad2 info', then that is what automatically leaps to the readers mind. They got some sensitive information about the secret chips inside the thing, or they got the crypto keys to it, or they did something that would allow unlocking or jailbreaking.
Those are wrong. Those implications are wrong. You have to have the 'cases' thing in there, otherwise you are misleading people about what actually happened.
Jim - call center worker Boss - the boss Irate caller - you
Jim: "OK sir, i just need to verify your ID with some recent transactions..."
Irate caller: "Wtf is this, security theatre?"
Jim: "OK, sir, you have a great point. I'll be sure to take that complaint to the proper authorities!"
Jim: "Hi boss, we got a caller... he says that our identity verification process is just security theatre!!!'
Boss: "Wait, what the fuck is your name again?"
Jim: "Uh... Jim.. sir... "
Boss: "Well, Jim, Sir, get your fat ass back in there, back in your fucking seat, and take some fucking calls. "
Jim: "Yes uhm.. yes sir.. u"
Boss: "Hold on. Let me look at your fucking numbers. Jim. jim. What the fuck Jim? Your job is to answer calls, not chitty chat with the users. Resolve them, and get to the next one. Understand? How.. fuck it. youre fired. "
if i was caught using 'zip' on anything at work, i would be fired for 'hacking'.
let alone encryption, sftp, and p2p tunnels.
my boss literally has sent out memos saying that training is to be avoided because it takes away from 'producitivty'. my coworkers do not know the difference between https and http, they plug in their phones into their computers, nobody cares, why? IT staff is continually cut because it 'doesnt make money'.
yes, most banks have horrible security, because bank managers are fucking idiots at anything that doesnt involve moving piles of cash around.
however.
they are like autistic masters at what they are good at, and one of those things is politics and dealing with the court system. and they will royally destroy Lulzsec and everyone within 10 city blocks (cyberverbally speaking) with various threats, suits, etc.
and it won't be piss ant state law, it will be Federal Department of Justice, starring Eric Holder, who is best known for standing up for the rights of Chiqita Banana to funnel money to right-wing terrorist groups who murdered union activists in latin america.
i mean, people keep saying there could be 'peace' between those states, but it was only a short time ago, 150 years, that those to 'peaceful' states were killing each other.
someone above is talking about a Cray being the fastest
A few decades back, Cray was kept in business solely because the NSA funded him. He had no other customer to support his stuff.
These 'private companies' with their 'general purpose computers' are often linked to secret government projects in ways we will not understand or know about for decades.
i mean, thats why i voted against John McCain, he told us the Iraq War would only be short and he got outraged when anyone suggested it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
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it's like if they stopped a bunch of trucks on the highway, and scanned every single one of them for nuclear weapons, drugs, and bombs, even though they had no probable cause whatsoever.
oh wait. they already do that.
( google VIPR )
i quoted two-word phrases, which is all that the WSJ had.
i dont read chinese either.
the communist government can call it a 'trade secret', i call it a photograph of a prototype. parroting whatever comes out of a govrenment mouthpiece is not the way to maintain 'accuracy' in a news article. case in point, thomas drake indictment said repeatedly he 'gave classified information to a reporter'. he never did, there was no evidence he did, they didnt criminally charge him with doing it, the judge ruled that he didnt do it in any way the government said he did. they just wrote a bunch of shit in the indictment to make him look bad. thats the 'accuracy' you get from following government printouts.
"18 Months In Prison For Selling iPad2 Case Design Secrets"
i like that one, but it still wouldn't fit in the slashdot title editor thing.
"18 months in jail for selling ipad2 case schematics"
i would love to have someone to bash around headlines with everytime i write a story but unfortunately this is not kuro5hin.org, and we get only one opportunity to write the thing.
so you write a headline that sums up the story, then you put the specific charges in quotes. just like the WSJ did.
oh, why didnt i call it a 'leak' case? because there is no legal definition of the term 'leak'. it is a biased and misleading term, that presupposes some sort of criminal activity and has a negative connotation in the reader's mind.
this case is not a whistleblower case, but whistleblower cases are where this bias of the word 'leak' becomes most apparent. a very good description of the problem is in Jesselyn Radack's book (former DOJ lawyer and whistleblower) Canary in the Coalmine. Another example is the Thomas Drake case. .. . . he was not even charged with disclosure of information, but so many headlines claimed it was a 'leak' case as to bias the public against him. It encouraged what was basically defamatory statements.
Technically, you could call these cases 'spy' cases. We don't usually use that term any more... but 'leak' has been so intermingled that the two are becoming messily intertwined.
I try to avoid using 'leak' in any headline, i try to avoid using it at all really.
What could i have titled this story?
18 months in prison for disclosing image files about the ipad2
18 months in prison for photographing the ipad2
18 months in prison for selling ipad2 info
What were these people doing, though, exactly? They were trying to make ipad2 cases. Those headlines imply stuff that is not there.
I would like to contrast my article with the Agence France Presse article. It said that these people were jailed for giving out information that would enable someone to create a rip-off ipad2. To clone it. This is an utterly ridiculous statement, and yet, there it is, sprayed all over the entire planet, by AFP and its professional reporters and editors.
But look at those alternative headlines I have given up there. If I wrote '18 months in prison for selling ipad2 info', then that is what automatically leaps to the readers mind. They got some sensitive information about the secret chips inside the thing, or they got the crypto keys to it, or they did something that would allow unlocking or jailbreaking.
Those are wrong. Those implications are wrong. You have to have the 'cases' thing in there, otherwise you are misleading people about what actually happened.
What would have been a better headline?
AFP is not the associated press, its Agence France Presse.
and the two articles (WSJ vs AFP) are completely different, so one of them is wrong.
the wall street journal used quotes, i used quotes. they are quoting the chinese court ruling.
thats what you do when you are quoting someone else. you use quote marks.
that man just told you his family members got killed, not the best time to nitpick.
would make your network go bankrupt?
im not sure if there are any 'tomato developers' or 'cucumber developers'
Obama has prosecuted 6 non-spy Espionage Act cases, people who give information to journalists.
more than any modern president.
3 of those involve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Drake, Manning, and Wikileaks.
the 'anti-hacking' laws are really expansions of the Espionage Act, if you dig into the language.
and the Espionage Act is really a backdoor way to kill freedom of speech / press
theres a book. The Shadow Factory. read it.
who the fuck knows any more man. its mirrors inside of mirrors inside of mirrors.
Jim - call center worker
Boss - the boss
Irate caller - you
Jim: "OK sir, i just need to verify your ID with some recent transactions..."
Irate caller: "Wtf is this, security theatre?"
Jim: "OK, sir, you have a great point. I'll be sure to take that complaint to the proper authorities!"
Jim: "Hi boss, we got a caller... he says that our identity verification process is just security theatre!!!'
Boss: "Wait, what the fuck is your name again?"
Jim: "Uh... Jim.. sir... "
Boss: "Well, Jim, Sir, get your fat ass back in there, back in your fucking seat, and take some fucking calls. "
Jim: "Yes uhm.. yes sir.. u"
Boss: "Hold on. Let me look at your fucking numbers. Jim. jim. What the fuck Jim? Your job is to answer calls, not chitty chat with the users. Resolve them, and get to the next one. Understand? How .. fuck it. youre fired. "
Jim: "..... "
if i was caught using 'zip' on anything at work, i would be fired for 'hacking'.
let alone encryption, sftp, and p2p tunnels.
my boss literally has sent out memos saying that training is to be avoided because it takes away from 'producitivty'. my coworkers do not know the difference between https and http, they plug in their phones into their computers, nobody cares, why? IT staff is continually cut because it 'doesnt make money'.
you just dont get the mentality out there man.
to alleged right alleged wing alleged terrorist alleged death alleged squads in alleged latin alleged america.
yes, most banks have horrible security, because bank managers are fucking idiots at anything that doesnt involve moving piles of cash around.
however.
they are like autistic masters at what they are good at, and one of those things is politics and dealing with the court system. and they will royally destroy Lulzsec and everyone within 10 city blocks (cyberverbally speaking) with various threats, suits, etc.
and it won't be piss ant state law, it will be Federal Department of Justice, starring Eric Holder, who is best known for standing up for the rights of Chiqita Banana to funnel money to right-wing terrorist groups who murdered union activists in latin america.
then why did hitler kill all of them?
why waste the time?
i mean in the world. sorry.
every nation practically has a peace movement sooner or later.
it's endemic to the human species to have anti-war movements.
so which is really the 'steady state'... the desire for war or the desire for peace, which is behind just about every major religion?
i mean, people keep saying there could be 'peace' between those states, but it was only a short time ago, 150 years, that those to 'peaceful' states were killing each other.
the NSA has been on the forefront of computer technology for it's whole existence practically.
almost nobody had ever heard of it before the mid 1970s.
there was no book about it until circa 1980, and only a handful of books since then
and yet, it singlehandedly is responsible for a large amount of supercomputer development in the US.
and it is part of the Department of Defense
someone above is talking about a Cray being the fastest
A few decades back, Cray was kept in business solely because the NSA funded him. He had no other customer to support his stuff.
These 'private companies' with their 'general purpose computers' are often linked to secret government projects in ways we will not understand or know about for decades.
the NSA has it's own chip fab
jesus man, where do you get all that stuff?
i mean, thats why i voted against John McCain, he told us the Iraq War would only be short and he got outraged when anyone suggested it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.