Both Scratch and App Inventor provide a visual programming environment. Whereas Scratch is self contained (you run your programs "in Scratch"), with App Inventor you create Android Applications which you can package and distribute as any other Android program.
-Jeff
Disclaimer: I am a member of the MIT App Inventor development team.
Another vote for Linode from me. I have been using them for years. I send mail from my linode and haven't had a problem with being on anyone's spam list.
I am someone who has responded to law enforcement requests. The process is pretty cumbersome. They deliver a piece of paper to you (since 9/11 they can fax it to you, before that it generally had to be delivered by hand).
You then do the search (after the attorneys tell you the request/demand is legit) and have to negotiate with them as to which format they can accept and you can produce. All very time consuming.
I believe what is being asked for here are two separate things:
Longer and standardized record retention. I'm not addressing that here.
An electronic way to send a subpoena and receive the results. Normally people might think "e-mail", but I suspect they (correctly) fear the lack of security of e-mail. So how about a website run by the ISP where the law enforcement types upload the subpoena (and perhaps answer some standard questions to help categorize the subpoena) and where the ISP can place the data once it is available.
This is very different then a web portal back door! Now I am sure that there are some folks who would want that, but that isn't what is being asked for here! Btw. I suspect that those who want the "spy" portal are not law enforcement. Law Enforcement wants to receive information that is squeaky clean. If they violate the law in their gathering of information, they can lose their case. They want information so they can prosecute someone, and they want that prosecution to be strong, not weakened by poor evidence gathering.
So please don't confuse a spying backdoor with a request for a better way to communicate. When you do, it weakens your argument and makes it easier to label you a crackpot!
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Both Scratch and App Inventor provide a visual programming environment. Whereas Scratch is self contained (you run your programs "in Scratch"), with App Inventor you create Android Applications which you can package and distribute as any other Android program.
-Jeff
Disclaimer: I am a member of the MIT App Inventor development team.
Another vote for Linode from me. I have been using them for years. I send mail from my linode and haven't had a problem with being on anyone's spam list.
I am someone who has responded to law enforcement requests. The process is pretty cumbersome. They deliver a piece of paper to you (since 9/11 they can fax it to you, before that it generally had to be delivered by hand).
You then do the search (after the attorneys tell you the request/demand is legit) and have to negotiate with them as to which format they can accept and you can produce. All very time consuming.
I believe what is being asked for here are two separate things:
This is very different then a web portal back door! Now I am sure that there are some folks who would want that, but that isn't what is being asked for here! Btw. I suspect that those who want the "spy" portal are not law enforcement. Law Enforcement wants to receive information that is squeaky clean. If they violate the law in their gathering of information, they can lose their case. They want information so they can prosecute someone, and they want that prosecution to be strong, not weakened by poor evidence gathering.
So please don't confuse a spying backdoor with a request for a better way to communicate. When you do, it weakens your argument and makes it easier to label you a crackpot!