February 04, 2005 Deceased woman named in file-sharing suit
By Toby Coleman Staff writer
Gertrude Walton of Fayette County hated computers, her daughter said.
That did not stop the recording industry from accusing the now deceased 83-year-old Mount Hope woman of illegally trading music over the Internet.
More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the only defendant in a federal lawsuit. They claimed Walton made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten." - advertisement-
On Thursday, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America acknowledged that Walton was probably not the smittenedkitten it is searching for.
"Our evidence gathering and our subsequent legal actions all were initiated weeks and even months ago," said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. "We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case."
Walton's daughter, Robin Chianumba, lived with her mother for the last 17 years of her life and said her mother objected to having a computer in the house. Chianumba said she didn't know anything about the record company's claims. And she said she does not know anything about the screen name.
"My mother was computer illiterate. She hated a computer," Chianumba said. "My mother wouldn't know how to turn on a computer."
The case demonstrates the imperfections of the record industry's two-year old effort to hunt down and sue people who put hundreds, even thousands, of copyrighted songs onto file-sharing networks on the Internet.
The industry tracks down file-swappers using the Internet Protocol addresses attached to their relatively anonymous screen names.
The IP addresses are useful because they identify computers on the Internet. But investigators cannot use the numeric codes to figure out who is using a particular computer. Often, they can only use the IP address to learn who is getting billed for the computer's Internet service.
I was only replying to the somewhat offtopic comment. And I know what stenography is. I've used it myself through websites that let you use "avatars" or post pictures such as fark.com photoshop contests. It is fun, is it not?
actually this is a really good thing. not just on slashdot, but on other sites where you can search the documents for key words.
Heck, post as ac with a unique subject and post encrypted (gpg) ascii in multiple parts. the data will be here still next year or five (plausible) and you can retrieve it, and decrypt (assuming you have the public key or password if it's symmetric
What if we started taking development for 2.8 in the direction of microkernel functionality without making it a microkernel? Say we just coded in the difference, where modules are run in userspace instead of kernel space while keeping a "protected memory space" of the filesystem, hard drive, and other other driver modules (as an option of course). We can do this so that if hardware failure happens it can be restarted, we also can recover the hd/fs in case that goes and if a module decides to crash (as if a module has cognitive ability to do so) it won't take out the kernel.
I'm not a kernel programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but just how possible is this? Meaning, is it feasable to do this within the timeframe of any 2.8 or even 3.0 kernel development, and what would we have to do to make it this way?
I personally don't like any driver taking out my whole system, nor do I like having to reboot just because I upgraded or compiled and installed a newer driver/module. (sometimes it happens)
that can all be setup, meaning the password entry option, only on a triple authentication scheme.
username passcode1 (based on private criteria and revolving at an interval an as many intervals as you wish) passcode2 (the private-signed sub-key on your usb etc)
most users don't log in from elsewheres. at least, anyone that I know of doesn't *need* to. no one *needs* to.
Has anyone set up a Linux/Windows or other system so that you don't have to use passwords (only as a last resort of the admin howerver) but rather had a usb thumbdrive (keychain drive, whatever) so that when you plugged it in, it automatically mounted & authenticated you with a private "sub-key" that was signed by your private key with an "unlock" flag from your gpg keyring?
Or something similar. I'm looking to get rid of passwords altogether on my systems with something that's tested to work.
Any ideas if something like this works at all or anything like it that might be of some use?
1. buy keyboard. 2. take it apart. 3. insert your own programmed IC 4. write your own keyboard software (just one file, even on win/linux/mac) 5. hardware keyloggers get gibberish
the software (keymap) just deciphers the signals differently so all the logger would get is gibberish and not work at all.
works for me. heck, even including this file in the "Windows File System Protection" loop works to prevent keyloggers based on changing those files:)
I've been wondering how come OpenOffice.org doesn't include a save encrypted option in their menu's to be used with GnuPG for Windows or Linux. Adding such would be trivial wouldn't it? Just use the local GnuPG key-ring, require authentication (gpg does this by default to sign encrypted files) and it would add a pretty UI to the encryption to the CLI that people (that Windows users generally) are afraid of.
Heck, even AbiWORD could do this and MANY people would be in favor of it.
What would happen if MSFT did this as well? Would people use gnupg to encrypt their stuff? What would people say or do because they'd be using a PGP compliant or PGP itself to encrypt files?
Slashdot Mirror
goodness, it was a typo. I know what your and you are mean. good grief you grammar nazi!
not sure, look around for me since you seem to have a better (albiet vague) notion of what it is.
truely great indeed. I hope whoever had those two arrested and any involved in their unfortunate incarceration get fined and arrested as well.
NetNifty has the subject here
Here is the story as a coral cache. I could only get the first page to cache propery before the slashdotting. This Print link might work however.
February 04, 2005
Deceased woman named in file-sharing suit
By Toby Coleman
Staff writer
Gertrude Walton of Fayette County hated computers, her daughter said.
That did not stop the recording industry from accusing the now deceased 83-year-old Mount Hope woman of illegally trading music over the Internet.
More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the only defendant in a federal lawsuit. They claimed Walton made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten."
- advertisement-
On Thursday, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America acknowledged that Walton was probably not the smittenedkitten it is searching for.
"Our evidence gathering and our subsequent legal actions all were initiated weeks and even months ago," said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. "We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case."
Walton's daughter, Robin Chianumba, lived with her mother for the last 17 years of her life and said her mother objected to having a computer in the house. Chianumba said she didn't know anything about the record company's claims. And she said she does not know anything about the screen name.
"My mother was computer illiterate. She hated a computer," Chianumba said. "My mother wouldn't know how to turn on a computer."
The case demonstrates the imperfections of the record industry's two-year old effort to hunt down and sue people who put hundreds, even thousands, of copyrighted songs onto file-sharing networks on the Internet.
The industry tracks down file-swappers using the Internet Protocol addresses attached to their relatively anonymous screen names.
The IP addresses are useful because they identify computers on the Internet. But investigators cannot use the numeric codes to figure out who is using a particular computer. Often, they can only use the IP address to learn who is getting billed for the computer's Internet service.
They realised the lawsuit was dead long before she was.
At least the RIAA is better than a lawyer, here's the age old joke.
What's the difference between a hooker and a lawyer?
The hooker stops after your dead.
I was only replying to the somewhat offtopic comment. And I know what stenography is. I've used it myself through websites that let you use "avatars" or post pictures such as fark.com photoshop contests. It is fun, is it not?
*cheers*
actually this is a really good thing. not just on slashdot, but on other sites where you can search the documents for key words.
Heck, post as ac with a unique subject and post encrypted (gpg) ascii in multiple parts. the data will be here still next year or five (plausible) and you can retrieve it, and decrypt (assuming you have the public key or password if it's symmetric
set up a secured server then friend. the desktop should not be used as a server. they are two mutually exclusive things.
What if we started taking development for 2.8 in the direction of microkernel functionality without making it a microkernel? Say we just coded in the difference, where modules are run in userspace instead of kernel space while keeping a "protected memory space" of the filesystem, hard drive, and other other driver modules (as an option of course). We can do this so that if hardware failure happens it can be restarted, we also can recover the hd/fs in case that goes and if a module decides to crash (as if a module has cognitive ability to do so) it won't take out the kernel.
I'm not a kernel programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but just how possible is this? Meaning, is it feasable to do this within the timeframe of any 2.8 or even 3.0 kernel development, and what would we have to do to make it this way?
I personally don't like any driver taking out my whole system, nor do I like having to reboot just because I upgraded or compiled and installed a newer driver/module. (sometimes it happens)
Help me out here fellas
that can all be setup, meaning the password entry option, only on a triple authentication scheme.
username
passcode1 (based on private criteria and revolving at an interval an as many intervals as you wish)
passcode2 (the private-signed sub-key on your usb etc)
most users don't log in from elsewheres. at least, anyone that I know of doesn't *need* to. no one *needs* to.
besides, this is a specific need.
Has anyone set up a Linux/Windows or other system so that you don't have to use passwords (only as a last resort of the admin howerver) but rather had a usb thumbdrive (keychain drive, whatever) so that when you plugged it in, it automatically mounted & authenticated you with a private "sub-key" that was signed by your private key with an "unlock" flag from your gpg keyring?
Or something similar. I'm looking to get rid of passwords altogether on my systems with something that's tested to work.
Any ideas if something like this works at all or anything like it that might be of some use?
I usually design my own keyboards and here's how:
:)
1. buy keyboard.
2. take it apart.
3. insert your own programmed IC
4. write your own keyboard software (just one file, even on win/linux/mac)
5. hardware keyloggers get gibberish
the software (keymap) just deciphers the signals differently so all the logger would get is gibberish and not work at all.
works for me. heck, even including this file in the "Windows File System Protection" loop works to prevent keyloggers based on changing those files
try a coral cache. coral will cache the pages and thus going around their block or using a proxy... in a way, coral IS acting like a proxy.
of its attorneys claim legal professional privilege
Could you explain this in layman's terms for those who aren't lawyers
The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution?
Then SCO/Caldera/BS COMPANY doesn't know jack of the constitution. Did he take a civics class? Did he ever go to college?
Where do I have to go to slap this silly bitch because his claims are really starting to infuriate me!
The GPL is freedom!!
USA is freedom!!
WTF is he smoking?
Here it is:
2 9/picture_gallery.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net.nyud.net:8090/adamb
I've been wondering how come OpenOffice.org doesn't include a save encrypted option in their menu's to be used with GnuPG for Windows or Linux. Adding such would be trivial wouldn't it? Just use the local GnuPG key-ring, require authentication (gpg does this by default to sign encrypted files) and it would add a pretty UI to the encryption to the CLI that people (that Windows users generally) are afraid of.
Heck, even AbiWORD could do this and MANY people would be in favor of it.
What would happen if MSFT did this as well? Would people use gnupg to encrypt their stuff? What would people say or do because they'd be using a PGP compliant or PGP itself to encrypt files?
Thoughts?
What's wrong with posting a coral cache'd link to the main story? or even a mirrordot?
Phrack.org
Good quote
Best Fifth Element reference ever!
this is what I said when I ran an unpatched XP box on the internet after a few minutes...
Hypothetical situation...
3. I detonate a small EMP for a 5-10 mile radius (possible for short-term? ala Oceans11??)
2. take my "oldskool" gun and rob a number of places
1. Profit?
wtf gives making the new gun the only legal one you can own. this is utter foolishness.
thisis a really useful tool