I think a judge will see encryption as a container.
But hopefully the judge would be wise and experienced enough not to fall into the logical 'trap' and know that the reverse is not true true. So "Every X has a Y" does not enable you to conclude that "Because Z has a Y, then Z is an X".
three words: contempt of court. obstruction of justice.to the judge your laptop is just another lockbox: surrender the key or go to jail. If, rather than the files being stored on computer, they were on paper in filing cabinet but written in a code or cipher, would the judge be allowed to demand that the documents be decoded? Surely an encrypted document is much more like a paper document written in code than a locked safe? Encryption is not a container (to be opened) like a safe, but is like a code, cipher or a foreign (but not understood to the reader) language.
The article's author freely admints that her laptop was purchased by not her, possibly an employer. If it's not yours it's, well, not yours and anything no matter how personal you put on it is not yours. Why does that follow? Surely there is a distinction between the owner of the 'container' and the owner of the items stored in the container. In the same way that if you put your lunchbox in your desk drawer at work, you still own your own lunch and box. The location where an item (whether tangible or intangible) is stored (or located) does not affect its ownership.
Even word is not consistent with its rendering of documents. Selecting a different printer (without changing paper size etc) can change the pagination, the flowing of text around tables and diagrams, etc.
It is not selling it aftwerwards that is so bad, though it is not good. What is really bad is the plagiarism, copying someone else's work and then claiming it as your own.
Or could rap even be said have its roots in Gregorian Chant or the 'sing-song' voice that clergymen used when conducting services before microphones were used in churches?
Not even all download purchases. I suspect that only downloads purchased from sources in the UK count, and even then not all of them. So I doubt that the albums I have downloaded from Magnatune http://www.magnatune.com/ are counted towards the UK album chart even though I am in the UK. The internet is global, so ideally to generate a UK 'top N' they should count the tracks downloaded by people in the UK not just sales from UK download sources.
And why do PC vendors sell PCs which have not had the latest security updates applied? This can lead to a catch-22 situation for the purchaser - they have to connect to the internet to download the security patches but while they are doing so they are vulnerable to any exploits which are addressed by the updates they are downloading. So vendors should, at the very least, provide a CD containing up to date security patches for the pre-installed software so that the purchaser can secure the system before going online.
Even if Linux were to become more popular, I doubt that it would have as many security problems as Windows. For one thing, Linux is not the inbred monoculture that Windows is.
It will be when/if it attains the "popularity" of Windows.
So then, on the server front, why is Apache not subject to as many attacks as Windows IIS? Apache is running on at least as many, probably more, servers than IIS but still there are many more attacks on IIS than on Apache. Similarly attacks to MS SQL server (eg the slammer worm) have caused considerable disruption to the internet, but we do not hear of such attacks to Oracle, MySQL or Postgresql even though a lot of internet connected servers run these.
None of the links explain what the problem is with Window Scaling. Presumably Microsoft are doing something non-standard as Linux also sets Window Scaling for TCP, and we have not seen reports of this causing problems
This should be obvious from the stats for W2K, which was never offered or sold as an OS for the general consumer market. Derrr. At the place where I work, every PC that was purchased (from Dell) whilst W2K was the current (ie after NT4 and before XP) came with W2K installed and some PCs are still running it. I may not have remembered correctly, but was W2K not (at least initially) marketed as the convergence of the Win9X and NT streams?
I would guess they can't support GNU/Linux in a legal way because they can't offer the codecs. But they do not have to offer the codecs. Do Windows or Mac users download the codecs from their site, or are the codecs included with the player (or downloaded by the player from the player's site not the media provider's)?
Until there is an open-source way to watch said 'Streaming WMV' it seems to be the worst possible solution. What is wrong with mplayerplug-in and firefox? This will show streaming WMV using open-source.
I have often wished that stores would not get such a high google rank. Many a time I have used google to try and find information about a product only to find the first few pages of response to be filled with stores selling the product and (even worse) price comparison sites.
Though in art, the original nearly always has considerably more value than copies or reproductions (and often only becomes valuable after the artist's death). Music is a little different, often the copies (ie arrangements) become well known and therefore more valuable. Take for example Pictures from an Exhibition by Mussorgsky. Almost everyone knows it as an orchestral piece, as orchestrated by Ravel, many do not even know that in its original form it is for piano. In music, 'borrowing' themes from other composers, and adapting them, is very common and is an important part of how music evolves.
The material does not even have to be in the public domain for it to "water down" the argument for all content to be protected. Works released under licences such as Creative Commons, which allow (sometimes with restrictions) copying and sharing while still retaining copyright, also water down the argument. In fact they add something new to 'pot'. If DRM is mandated (such that players will only play DRM protected content) then the DRM 'system' will have to handle the situation where the rights owner does allow copying, sampling etc. This would, of course, include putting no restrictions on content which is in the public domain either because the copyright has expired or it has been deliberately placed in the public domain.
There is nothing actually wrong with Microsoft producing the tools. What is wrong is for Microsoft to use the tools. They should be producing the tools for use by law enforcement. Other companies and industries design and make tools for law enforcement to use, and do not use them themselves to enforce the law. So why should Microsoft not do the same rather than acting as vigilantes and taking the law into their own hands?
Anyone who's currently using Firefox will likely download IE7 as well. Only those people running Windows. I wonder what the proportions of the firefox 2 downloads were for the different operating systems.
What you do is make the user write down their password/phrase and seal it in an envelope. This envelope is then treated as being of at least as high (probably higher) security classification as the data it protects. It is then stored securely, eg in an always (apart from when items are being placed in it or accessed) locked safe whose key is kept in a key safe and require keys to signed for, for there to be 2 authorised people present when the key envelope is retrieved etc.
I started to become extremely paranoid. Some guys invent/implement a pure anarchic network like Tor or setup their own "internet" which can't be traced. Imagine the impact on those govt. types...
If I remember correctly, Tor was developed by the US Navy. So if other parts of government do not like it.....
I do not think that analogy is very good. It is more like finding the bits of paper (whether in the safe or a drawer etc) but then not being to understand what is written on them as they are written in cypher/code. In those circumstances, they would ask you to 'translate' the writing but would there be any legal comeback if you refused?
I am surprised that none of the Amstrad range are mentioned. I would have expected to see either the PCW integrated wordprocessor or the IBM compatible PCs which were the first ones at 'consumer' rather than 'business' prices and in effect introduced the PC to the home user.
These big bang corporations have all the pull and more on the laws involved.
Therein lies the problem. What the governments need to remember is that the vast majority of people (at least in the UK, I suspect it is the same in the USA and other countries) are employed by small and medium sized companies. So policies and laws which favour the large multi-national corporations to the detriment of the small companies and individuals, are against the interests of the nation as a whole.
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"To every lock there is a key..."
I think a judge will see encryption as a container.
But hopefully the judge would be wise and experienced enough not to fall into the logical 'trap' and know that the reverse is not true true. So "Every X has a Y" does not enable you to conclude that "Because Z has a Y, then Z is an X".Even word is not consistent with its rendering of documents. Selecting a different printer (without changing paper size etc) can change the pagination, the flowing of text around tables and diagrams, etc.
It is not selling it aftwerwards that is so bad, though it is not good. What is really bad is the plagiarism, copying someone else's work and then claiming it as your own.
Or could rap even be said have its roots in Gregorian Chant or the 'sing-song' voice that clergymen used when conducting services before microphones were used in churches?
Not even all download purchases. I suspect that only downloads purchased from sources in the UK count, and even then not all of them. So I doubt that the albums I have downloaded from Magnatune http://www.magnatune.com/ are counted towards the UK album chart even though I am in the UK. The internet is global, so ideally to generate a UK 'top N' they should count the tracks downloaded by people in the UK not just sales from UK download sources.
And why do PC vendors sell PCs which have not had the latest security updates applied? This can lead to a catch-22 situation for the purchaser - they have to connect to the internet to download the security patches but while they are doing so they are vulnerable to any exploits which are addressed by the updates they are downloading. So vendors should, at the very least, provide a CD containing up to date security patches for the pre-installed software so that the purchaser can secure the system before going online.
Even if Linux were to become more popular, I doubt that it would have as many security problems as Windows. For one thing, Linux is not the inbred monoculture that Windows is.
It will be when/if it attains the "popularity" of Windows.
So then, on the server front, why is Apache not subject to as many attacks as Windows IIS? Apache is running on at least as many, probably more, servers than IIS but still there are many more attacks on IIS than on Apache. Similarly attacks to MS SQL server (eg the slammer worm) have caused considerable disruption to the internet, but we do not hear of such attacks to Oracle, MySQL or Postgresql even though a lot of internet connected servers run these.None of the links explain what the problem is with Window Scaling. Presumably Microsoft are doing something non-standard as Linux also sets Window Scaling for TCP, and we have not seen reports of this causing problems
I have often wished that stores would not get such a high google rank. Many a time I have used google to try and find information about a product only to find the first few pages of response to be filled with stores selling the product and (even worse) price comparison sites.
Though in art, the original nearly always has considerably more value than copies or reproductions (and often only becomes valuable after the artist's death). Music is a little different, often the copies (ie arrangements) become well known and therefore more valuable. Take for example Pictures from an Exhibition by Mussorgsky. Almost everyone knows it as an orchestral piece, as orchestrated by Ravel, many do not even know that in its original form it is for piano. In music, 'borrowing' themes from other composers, and adapting them, is very common and is an important part of how music evolves.
The material does not even have to be in the public domain for it to "water down" the argument for all content to be protected. Works released under licences such as Creative Commons, which allow (sometimes with restrictions) copying and sharing while still retaining copyright, also water down the argument. In fact they add something new to 'pot'. If DRM is mandated (such that players will only play DRM protected content) then the DRM 'system' will have to handle the situation where the rights owner does allow copying, sampling etc. This would, of course, include putting no restrictions on content which is in the public domain either because the copyright has expired or it has been deliberately placed in the public domain.
There is nothing actually wrong with Microsoft producing the tools. What is wrong is for Microsoft to use the tools. They should be producing the tools for use by law enforcement. Other companies and industries design and make tools for law enforcement to use, and do not use them themselves to enforce the law. So why should Microsoft not do the same rather than acting as vigilantes and taking the law into their own hands?
Anyone who's currently using Firefox will likely download IE7 as well.
Only those people running Windows. I wonder what the proportions of the firefox 2 downloads were for the different operating systems.
What you do is make the user write down their password/phrase and seal it in an envelope. This envelope is then treated as being of at least as high (probably higher) security classification as the data it protects. It is then stored securely, eg in an always (apart from when items are being placed in it or accessed) locked safe whose key is kept in a key safe and require keys to signed for, for there to be 2 authorised people present when the key envelope is retrieved etc.
I started to become extremely paranoid. Some guys invent/implement a pure anarchic network like Tor or setup their own "internet" which can't be traced.
Imagine the impact on those govt. types...
If I remember correctly, Tor was developed by the US Navy. So if other parts of government do not like it.....
Also with the challenger disaster, where the engineers' concerns were overruled by management.
I do not think that analogy is very good. It is more like finding the bits of paper (whether in the safe or a drawer etc) but then not being to understand what is written on them as they are written in cypher/code. In those circumstances, they would ask you to 'translate' the writing but would there be any legal comeback if you refused?
I am surprised that none of the Amstrad range are mentioned. I would have expected to see either the PCW integrated wordprocessor or the IBM compatible PCs which were the first ones at 'consumer' rather than 'business' prices and in effect introduced the PC to the home user.
Firefox already has a "load images only from originating site" option.
These big bang corporations have all the pull and more on the laws involved.
Therein lies the problem. What the governments need to remember is that the vast majority of people (at least in the UK, I suspect it is the same in the USA and other countries) are employed by small and medium sized companies. So policies and laws which favour the large multi-national corporations to the detriment of the small companies and individuals, are against the interests of the nation as a whole.