If he works - on air - but NOT talking about his "unlawful" activities, he won't lose any earnings.
Other than the purported rapes, which of his activities are "unlawful?" Accepting and reporting on information from so-called "whistleblowers"? Would you include the Guardian, der Spiegel, and the New York Times in that charge?
We have evidence of data and programs being accessed from that computer up to the time we seized it and it was taken from your possession.
Prove it. Then prove it was me who accessed it. Then prove it wasn't you masquerading as me who accessed it.
It has been in legal custody since then and we have not tampered with it.
Prove it. I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.
It is not plausible that you do not know the real password.
Really?!? So, when's your third cousin's birthday? Or her dog's birthday? Or the first 4096 chars of her dog's genome? Can't remember?
You don't have to tell us the password you just need to provide an unencrypted copy of the contents as the subpoena requires.
That doesn't exist. Do you have any specific questions or charges I might help you with?
I actually like cops and can count on one hand negative interactions I've had with them, and they pretty much didn't matter. I do fear the overzealous, no matter what costume they wear.
Interesting. What are the laws on this issue in your country? Do you have the equivalent of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment
Considering pleading the fifth in the US is no longer valid, North Korea and the PRC would appear to have the equivalent of the US' Fifth Amendment protection, as in none.
Wasn't it the Soviet Union's ambition to make everyone equal by lowering them all down to the lowest level?
I really wish the US actually lived up to its stated PR (Of, For, By The People), but it's no longer the case. You live in a police state, approve of rent-a-cops groping you for the privilege of travel, and it's BIG NEWS when a judge says the cops can't stick a GPS transmitter on your vehicle and follow you everywhere for a month. Welcome to the new world, comrade citizen. You have a choice. Would you prefer your bullet in the front or the back of your head?
I think I've read and re-read that book more than any other. Why Harper Lee didn't write more astonishes me. Perhaps she just knew there was no way to top it. Quit while you're ahead, I guess.
I believe that was a reply relating to the scene in "To Kill a Mockingbird" where Atticus shoots a rabid dog walking down the street.
Perhaps it was a bit of a non sequitur. I have a bad habit of speaking/writing metaphorically, and lots of people (like yourself) take it literally. I can be pretty good at insane leaps of logic.:-(
My mistake. I don't really have a vigilante bone in my body and certainly am not advocating the Murdochs be hunted down like rabid dogs. I'd be satisfied seeing them pushing a shopping cart containing the last of their worldly possessions.
As naive as it may sound, why not just do less illegal stuff?
Where's the fun in that? People do illegal stuff for a reason, whether for lulz or profit, or simply not agreeing that activity should be illegal in the first place. "Illegal" is not necessarily and always "wrong" morally or ethically.
Back to the topic, I think the best solution to this criminal's conundrum is to crack into some utterly unrelated "sheeple's" computer and do your "nefarious activities" there. They'll never notice it happening. You can even add in all the other crypto-methods mentioned here if you're hyper-paranoid, but on an utterly unrelated computer. As long as you're careful to use an anonymizing proxy to get there, there'll be no trace of you going there or of you doing anything there. I wish the LEOs luck sorting that out.
And may I say to all you creeps out there, stay away from my Mom's computer, damnit. I'm watching you.
I Judge Robert Blackburn is stabbed repeatedly until he is dead. That scumbag is an enemy of the people.
I think you a word out.
I take it you're unaware that "judge" can be used as both a noun and a verb? Granted, it shouldn't have been capitalized, but it was used correctly if that's what he intended to say.
I judge your skill with the English language is somewhat deficient (but that's not a fatal condition).
I'm amazed that page actually exists. Shouldn't that be filed under "stating the blindingly obvious"? xkcd says pretty much the same thing, but with stick figures.
Shut the fuck up, you stupid crypto-nazi anarchist. Do you even know what this court case is about?
Er, actually no. This is/.; we're not expected to read TFAs, silly. Besides, what's that got to do with anything?
Crypto-nazi anarchist?!? No again, I think (whatever that is).
This has ZERO to do with copyright infringement.
Yeah, sorry, that was just me venting about current events (SOPA/PIPA coming to Canada).
Aside from your completely moronic statement... in my humble opinion, judging by the need for data security as evidenced by many high profile computer breakins, criminalizing encryption, or allowing government to force people to break their own encryption... would be a mistake.
?!?!?!? Uhhh, back at ya?:-)
That said however, in business transactions, a special case should be made that if you have business related material on a laptop you should not only be required to encrypt it -- but be required to disclose it to government investigators, as well.
Why? So, you don't approve of your having a constitutional right to privacy and the right to not self-incriminate yourself? Good to know, thanks. And, the FBI has copies of your private keys and your passphrase? It'd save time, not require a judge to hear your case, and might even go towards clearing you if you're actually innocent.
Expedite justice! Forward your private keys and passphrase to the DoJ today!
'the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents' of the defendant's computer.
What?!? It's okay to insist I provide you with the unencrypted contents of my encrypted filesystem? What? Why do you suppose I encrypted it in the first place, just for discussion purposes of course,... Like you never in a month of days have any damned right whatsoever to read it in the first place if it's my private encrypted data?
You people are insane to put up with this !@#$.... And I wish more people were tossing molotov cocktails into MafiAA offices, *BUT THAT'S JUST ME STATING AN OPINION, NOT ADVOCATING A COURSE OF ACTION, ffs!
Of course you're fortunate to have those options. Otherwise you'd have nothing good to eat!
You've never had my Mom's roast beef, or meatloaf, or roast chicken, or scalloped potatoes, or my chilli pepper stir-fried shrimp with bok choy and black bean sauce,...
I may not want to try whale blubber or raw seal liver anytime soon. Still, there's a lot of stuff that's done here that you've never heard of, and which you probably would like. For instance, rat and cat and dog and reindeer are generally not on the menu.
Everybody focuses so hard on the lowest forms of American Culture that they overlook all of the good stuff.
Yeah, you've got a point but still, the bad does vastly outnumber the good. And let me say I'm personally very sorry about Celine Dion and Margaret Atwood (though The Handmaid's Tale was good, I thought). Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and Tom Cochrane are much more preferred here (by me, at least). Buena Vista Social Club and Tananas even more, but I digress.
My Dad loved NFL football. I can't even stand CFL or NHL (hockey). I prefer Italian "Serie A" European football (soccer) and MLB. I have the four disk set of Firefly DVDs and Serenity sitting by my player right now, about to play them again for the second time this month. I used to drink beer, but prefer Irish whisky these days. Yes, Stella Artois is marketed as a fine European beer here, but nobody's really falling for it.
A lot of what's been said in this thread was written by kids, and what do they know about culture? Another lot was written by a bunch of fairly astute Canucks just trying to describe this goofy land North of you from their understanding and perspective. I've enjoyed reading a lot of it (thanks guys:-). I hope you don't take it as USA bashing (Lord knows, you get enough of that these days from all quarters). Some of us here enjoy the living daylights out of bashing our fellow Canucks (especially Torontonians! Gahd, I hated that place!:-). It keeps us warm during the long winters.
And I hope *we* can kill this SOPA/PIPA push up here as fast as you appeared to have killed yours ($DEITY willing) last week.
P.S. Detroit vs. Windsor.:-O [though that situation may have improved from your perspective in recent years].
We are not a dystopia! we in the USA are in a Oligrarcy [wikipedia.org] get it right.
Careful there, snowflake. Did you mean Oligarchy? And here I thought it was a Plutocracy or even Plutarchy. I stand corrected. As for the topic at hand (Canadian cultural sensitivities?): (20) infidel/home/keeling_ ping -c 1 wikipedia.ca PING wikipedia.ca (65.61.198.162) 56(84) bytes of data.
(1) infidel/home/keeling_ ping -c 1 google.ca PING google.ca (74.125.127.94) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pz-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.127.94): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=35.5 ms
--- google.ca ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.545/35.545/35.545/0.000 ms
We can't even cite Canadian Wikipedia articles, but we can get to google.ca. Go figger, eh? Guess what happens when we try to buy from hp.com? We waste half an hour clicking through forms, only to be dumped out and told to go to hp.ca, and the latter doesn't even sell the box we want that hp.com does sell. Thanks, NOT!
Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. This all goes to show why Canucks are better than US-ians; we can put up with this !@#$ and still function.
Diefenbaker (former Prime Minister) put it best: "Sharing a border with the USA is like sleeping with an elephant."
The difficulty that Canada has is in competing with the TV and movie juggernaut that is Hollywood, unfortunately.
I thought the difficulty was in making TV and movies look like they were shot in the US (cf. SG:SG1). Production's a lot cheaper up here and has been for a long time, but the RCMP don't look at all like your typical State Trooper.
At one point in history, of course, there wasn't even a Canadian culture at all.
That's an overstatement. There wasn't a single monolithic Canadian culture, but there was always plenty of smaller, distinctively regional cultures, from the East coast fishing culture to the West coast monarchists to the Plains Indians/Aboriginals and white homesteaders in sod huts to the Inuit in the North, and that's leaving out a lot! It is a pretty big country after all.
Why anyone thought we needed a single monolithic Canadian culture I've never understood, but that's what the Liberals were up to when they had a lock on Parliament when I was growing up (and the CRTC and CBC have kept up that fiction ever since, damn them to hell).
I've never even seen a Maple tree of the form emblazoned on our flag, and have always wondered about those red bars at both ends. That's not a flag that says anything about where I live. We've more in common with Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, and Idaho here.
Get rid of those red bars on the flag, and I wouldn't mind so much. To a Westerner, all they do is bring up unhappy memories of Pierre Trudeau riding a motorcycle wearing a Nazi Stormtrooper helmet.
No, that's not good enough for me, and it has nothing to do with mythical omnipotent ultra-beings.
Any predatory animal out there has no need for any of this stuff beyond knowing they need to eat and feed their progeny, and not get eaten themselves. Slower and weaker game is fair game to them.
Any human being who thinks that way is a psychopath, and every human being who's not a psychopath knows this. It comes from what we are, from our very nature. We wouldn't have survived as a species if we hadn't known it. Predatory humans cannot be allowed to prosper or no kid would live long enough to see his 'teens. Every civilized human knows and accepts this.
As for rape, how can you know rape when you see it? How do you know I'm not just pleasuring my girlfriend, and she's exceptionally vocal about expressing her approval? I thought we got over all that "shoot first and ask questions later" stuff. Be careful, or you could find yourself on Death Row and day now thinking like that.
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If he works - on air - but NOT talking about his "unlawful" activities, he won't lose any earnings.
Other than the purported rapes, which of his activities are "unlawful?" Accepting and reporting on information from so-called "whistleblowers"? Would you include the Guardian, der Spiegel, and the New York Times in that charge?
FWIW, I agree with the "Flamebait" mod.
I'm not sure I'd take anything I wrote back, though.
We have evidence of data and programs being accessed from that computer up to the time we seized it and it was taken from your possession.
Prove it. Then prove it was me who accessed it. Then prove it wasn't you masquerading as me who accessed it.
It has been in legal custody since then and we have not tampered with it.
Prove it. I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.
It is not plausible that you do not know the real password.
Really?!? So, when's your third cousin's birthday? Or her dog's birthday? Or the first 4096 chars of her dog's genome? Can't remember?
You don't have to tell us the password you just need to provide an unencrypted copy of the contents as the subpoena requires.
That doesn't exist. Do you have any specific questions or charges I might help you with?
I actually like cops and can count on one hand negative interactions I've had with them, and they pretty much didn't matter. I do fear the overzealous, no matter what costume they wear.
They never took that into account when they wrote the amendment and interpretation has to change to take that issue into account.
Cryptography predates the founding fathers.
In fact, George Washington was the US' first spymaster. Brad Melzor's "Decoded" did a show about it. It's how Benedict Arnold was outed.
Interesting. What are the laws on this issue in your country? Do you have the equivalent of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment
Considering pleading the fifth in the US is no longer valid, North Korea and the PRC would appear to have the equivalent of the US' Fifth Amendment protection, as in none.
Wasn't it the Soviet Union's ambition to make everyone equal by lowering them all down to the lowest level?
I really wish the US actually lived up to its stated PR (Of, For, By The People), but it's no longer the case. You live in a police state, approve of rent-a-cops groping you for the privilege of travel, and it's BIG NEWS when a judge says the cops can't stick a GPS transmitter on your vehicle and follow you everywhere for a month. Welcome to the new world, comrade citizen. You have a choice. Would you prefer your bullet in the front or the back of your head?
To Kill a Mockingbird was a great book(and a decent movie) by the way.
If you never have, I strongly recommend reading the Wikipedia article.
I think I've read and re-read that book more than any other. Why Harper Lee didn't write more astonishes me. Perhaps she just knew there was no way to top it. Quit while you're ahead, I guess.
WTF does a rabid canine have to do with this?
I believe that was a reply relating to the scene in "To Kill a Mockingbird" where Atticus shoots a rabid dog walking down the street.
Perhaps it was a bit of a non sequitur. I have a bad habit of speaking/writing metaphorically, and lots of people (like yourself) take it literally. I can be pretty good at insane leaps of logic. :-(
My mistake. I don't really have a vigilante bone in my body and certainly am not advocating the Murdochs be hunted down like rabid dogs. I'd be satisfied seeing them pushing a shopping cart containing the last of their worldly possessions.
As naive as it may sound, why not just do less illegal stuff?
Where's the fun in that? People do illegal stuff for a reason, whether for lulz or profit, or simply not agreeing that activity should be illegal in the first place. "Illegal" is not necessarily and always "wrong" morally or ethically.
Back to the topic, I think the best solution to this criminal's conundrum is to crack into some utterly unrelated "sheeple's" computer and do your "nefarious activities" there. They'll never notice it happening. You can even add in all the other crypto-methods mentioned here if you're hyper-paranoid, but on an utterly unrelated computer. As long as you're careful to use an anonymizing proxy to get there, there'll be no trace of you going there or of you doing anything there. I wish the LEOs luck sorting that out.
And may I say to all you creeps out there, stay away from my Mom's computer, damnit. I'm watching you.
I Judge Robert Blackburn is stabbed repeatedly until he is dead. That scumbag is an enemy of the people.
I think you a word out.
I take it you're unaware that "judge" can be used as both a noun and a verb? Granted, it shouldn't have been capitalized, but it was used correctly if that's what he intended to say.
I judge your skill with the English language is somewhat deficient (but that's not a fatal condition).
See also Rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
I'm amazed that page actually exists. Shouldn't that be filed under "stating the blindingly obvious"? xkcd says pretty much the same thing, but with stick figures.
Shut the fuck up, you stupid crypto-nazi anarchist. Do you even know what this court case is about?
Er, actually no. This is /.; we're not expected to read TFAs, silly. Besides, what's that got to do with anything?
Crypto-nazi anarchist?!? No again, I think (whatever that is).
This has ZERO to do with copyright infringement.
Yeah, sorry, that was just me venting about current events (SOPA/PIPA coming to Canada).
Aside from your completely moronic statement ... in my humble opinion, judging by the need for data security as evidenced by many high profile computer breakins, criminalizing encryption, or allowing government to force people to break their own encryption ... would be a mistake.
?!?!?!? Uhhh, back at ya? :-)
That said however, in business transactions, a special case should be made that if you have business related material on a laptop you should not only be required to encrypt it -- but be required to disclose it to government investigators, as well.
Why? So, you don't approve of your having a constitutional right to privacy and the right to not self-incriminate yourself? Good to know, thanks. And, the FBI has copies of your private keys and your passphrase? It'd save time, not require a judge to hear your case, and might even go towards clearing you if you're actually innocent.
Expedite justice! Forward your private keys and passphrase to the DoJ today!
WTF is a crypto-nazi anarchist?!?
'the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents' of the defendant's computer.
What?!? It's okay to insist I provide you with the unencrypted contents of my encrypted filesystem? What? Why do you suppose I encrypted it in the first place, just for discussion purposes of course, ... Like you never in a month of days have any damned right whatsoever to read it in the first place if it's my private encrypted data?
You people are insane to put up with this !@#$. ... And I wish more people were tossing molotov cocktails into MafiAA offices, *BUT THAT'S JUST ME STATING AN OPINION, NOT ADVOCATING A COURSE OF ACTION, ffs!
The only bit you forgot was the Starbucks coffee afterwards. No, I'm not kidding! I love their coffee. Beats Tim Hortons to hell and back.
Of course you're fortunate to have those options. Otherwise you'd have nothing good to eat!
You've never had my Mom's roast beef, or meatloaf, or roast chicken, or scalloped potatoes, or my chilli pepper stir-fried shrimp with bok choy and black bean sauce, ...
I may not want to try whale blubber or raw seal liver anytime soon. Still, there's a lot of stuff that's done here that you've never heard of, and which you probably would like. For instance, rat and cat and dog and reindeer are generally not on the menu.
Baaaaahhstan style baked beans (that would be boston, with a incomprehensible accent)
I think the correct spelling is Bwastun.
I love it that you guys can still play together without shooting each other.
the chinese go out for Meiguo Cai, American Food/Cuisine....
So, deep fried fat laden crap with sugar dusted fries on the side? A la McD's?
Proper Canadians go for Tim Hortons in the morning.
Morons park in multi-block long queues in their SUVs waiting to get to a Tim Horton's window to buy hot brown water.
Dumb. Seriously dumb.
Nobody says, "Hey lets go out for some Canadian tonight."
Didn't we sell that !@#$ to some brewery in Oregon? Suckers!
Everybody focuses so hard on the lowest forms of American Culture that they overlook all of the good stuff.
Yeah, you've got a point but still, the bad does vastly outnumber the good. And let me say I'm personally very sorry about Celine Dion and Margaret Atwood (though The Handmaid's Tale was good, I thought). Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and Tom Cochrane are much more preferred here (by me, at least). Buena Vista Social Club and Tananas even more, but I digress.
My Dad loved NFL football. I can't even stand CFL or NHL (hockey). I prefer Italian "Serie A" European football (soccer) and MLB. I have the four disk set of Firefly DVDs and Serenity sitting by my player right now, about to play them again for the second time this month. I used to drink beer, but prefer Irish whisky these days. Yes, Stella Artois is marketed as a fine European beer here, but nobody's really falling for it.
A lot of what's been said in this thread was written by kids, and what do they know about culture? Another lot was written by a bunch of fairly astute Canucks just trying to describe this goofy land North of you from their understanding and perspective. I've enjoyed reading a lot of it (thanks guys :-). I hope you don't take it as USA bashing (Lord knows, you get enough of that these days from all quarters). :-). It keeps us warm during the long winters.
Some of us here enjoy the living daylights out of bashing our fellow Canucks (especially Torontonians! Gahd, I hated that place!
And I hope *we* can kill this SOPA/PIPA push up here as fast as you appeared to have killed yours ($DEITY willing) last week.
P.S. Detroit vs. Windsor. :-O [though that situation may have improved from your perspective in recent years].
We are not a dystopia! we in the USA are in a Oligrarcy [wikipedia.org] get it right.
Careful there, snowflake. Did you mean Oligarchy? And here I thought it was a Plutocracy or even Plutarchy. I stand corrected. As for the topic at hand (Canadian cultural sensitivities?): /home/keeling_ ping -c 1 wikipedia.ca
(20) infidel
PING wikipedia.ca (65.61.198.162) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- wikipedia.ca ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
(1) infidel /home/keeling_ ping -c 1 google.ca
PING google.ca (74.125.127.94) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pz-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.127.94): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=35.5 ms
--- google.ca ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.545/35.545/35.545/0.000 ms
We can't even cite Canadian Wikipedia articles, but we can get to google.ca. Go figger, eh? Guess what happens when we try to buy from hp.com? We waste half an hour clicking through forms, only to be dumped out and told to go to hp.ca, and the latter doesn't even sell the box we want that hp.com does sell. Thanks, NOT!
Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. This all goes to show why Canucks are better than US-ians; we can put up with this !@#$ and still function.
Diefenbaker (former Prime Minister) put it best: "Sharing a border with the USA is like sleeping with an elephant."
Isn't that the conservative m.o.? To halt progress and keep things as they are?
No, that's always been the Canadian authorities' M.O. 1867 was just a few years after the US' Civil War, aka "Mobocracy In Action."
Canada's always been about, "Order And Good Government." Very British, don't you think?
The difficulty that Canada has is in competing with the TV and movie juggernaut that is Hollywood, unfortunately.
I thought the difficulty was in making TV and movies look like they were shot in the US (cf. SG:SG1). Production's a lot cheaper up here and has been for a long time, but the RCMP don't look at all like your typical State Trooper.
I never knew about 'Trailer Park Boys' until I found it on Netflix.
You lucky bastard. I'm sorry for your loss.
At one point in history, of course, there wasn't even a Canadian culture at all.
That's an overstatement. There wasn't a single monolithic Canadian culture, but there was always plenty of smaller, distinctively regional cultures, from the East coast fishing culture to the West coast monarchists to the Plains Indians/Aboriginals and white homesteaders in sod huts to the Inuit in the North, and that's leaving out a lot! It is a pretty big country after all.
Why anyone thought we needed a single monolithic Canadian culture I've never understood, but that's what the Liberals were up to when they had a lock on Parliament when I was growing up (and the CRTC and CBC have kept up that fiction ever since, damn them to hell).
I've never even seen a Maple tree of the form emblazoned on our flag, and have always wondered about those red bars at both ends. That's not a flag that says anything about where I live. We've more in common with Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, and Idaho here.
Get rid of those red bars on the flag, and I wouldn't mind so much. To a Westerner, all they do is bring up unhappy memories of Pierre Trudeau riding a motorcycle wearing a Nazi Stormtrooper helmet.
No, that's not good enough for me, and it has nothing to do with mythical omnipotent ultra-beings.
Any predatory animal out there has no need for any of this stuff beyond knowing they need to eat and feed their progeny, and not get eaten themselves. Slower and weaker game is fair game to them.
Any human being who thinks that way is a psychopath, and every human being who's not a psychopath knows this. It comes from what we are, from our very nature. We wouldn't have survived as a species if we hadn't known it. Predatory humans cannot be allowed to prosper or no kid would live long enough to see his 'teens. Every civilized human knows and accepts this.
As for rape, how can you know rape when you see it? How do you know I'm not just pleasuring my girlfriend, and she's exceptionally vocal about expressing her approval? I thought we got over all that "shoot first and ask questions later" stuff. Be careful, or you could find yourself on Death Row and day now thinking like that.