Arrested spy Brian Regan has initiated legal proceedings against the FBI under the DMCA ruling.
"While it is legal in special circumstances to reverse engineer my private messages to Libya - it was clearly illegal in this case. If the FBI start decrypting all messages from spies, then there is nothing to stop them posting them on the Internet for other countries to download for free. How do they expect spies to make a living then? There claim that they had a right to access these photos and that it was only for their private use just doesn't cut it..."
He's worked in a high-security job, and he's been a sysadmin, yet he can't work out how to encrypt a message properly? Not clever.
Perhaps that's the solution to national security - instead of trying to stop people using encryption, just employ people too stupid to cover their tracks properly:-)
The trouble with using a 3G network (apart from the delay until it really gets going) is the cost - in the UK it cost each network operator about 5 billion UK pounds to buy the license, so they're unlikely to provide really cheap access.
Is it really possible to browser the website using a voice browser if IBM add a few ALT tags? Given the use made of frames and javascript I would have thought it would be close to impossible to navigate around the site without a 'standard' browser.
In fact, the one item in the 'Help/FAQ' section explicitly states that the site was designed for the latest versions of Netscape & IE - so they are explicitly ignoring any non-standard access of their site!
It would have been nice to see a bit more support for alternative browsing methods (e.g. is there an official WAP site? Latest sports results are just the sort of thing that i'd like on my phone), but it's a bit late telling IBM to change their site a fortnight before the games start...
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Arrested spy Brian Regan has initiated legal proceedings against the FBI under the DMCA ruling.
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"While it is legal in special circumstances to reverse engineer my private messages to Libya - it was clearly illegal in this case. If the FBI start decrypting all messages from spies, then there is nothing to stop them posting them on the Internet for other countries to download for free. How do they expect spies to make a living then? There claim that they had a right to access these photos and that it was only for their private use just doesn't cut it
Hmmm ....
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He's worked in a high-security job, and he's been a sysadmin, yet he can't work out how to encrypt a message properly? Not clever.
Perhaps that's the solution to national security - instead of trying to stop people using encryption, just employ people too stupid to cover their tracks properly
The trouble with using a 3G network (apart from the delay until it really gets going) is the cost - in the UK it cost each network operator about 5 billion UK pounds to buy the license, so they're unlikely to provide really cheap access.
It would have been nice to see a bit more support for alternative browsing methods (e.g. is there an official WAP site? Latest sports results are just the sort of thing that i'd like on my phone), but it's a bit late telling IBM to change their site a fortnight before the games start ...