Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 02:28 PM EDT |
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You can't make this stuff up.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 02:51 PM EDT |
This is gold. One of the defendants in a criminal trial for an armed robbery in
which a guard was shot and killed, may be able to force the government to
produce phone records that the NSA collected under one of those blanket FISA
warrants we've recently been reading about. The government previously said they
went to the phone provider and asked for the records and the provider didn't
have them anymore, but the Court seems sympathetic to his argument that they are
exculpatory and that the NSA apparently has collected them, so the government
might be forced to produce them.
Story at techdirt. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Ed L. on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 03:39 PM EDT |
Does anyone recall ten years ago our gracious hostess
declined a cherished
para-position at PubPat out of (not all
would say well-founded) fear of
conflict of interest with her
work here at Groklaw?
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/index.html
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 04:30 PM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 07:07 PM EDT |
CBS News
When perusing
her twitter, Scorchy Barrington
noticed some people complaining that mastectomy
pictures
from non-profit organization The SCAR Project, which
features
inspiring photos of amputees, had been taken down
from Facebook. In addition,
she found out that the
photographer behind the project, David Jay, had been
banned
from the social network for 30 days for putting up
questionable
material./
When she went to bed after the first day
of the
petition's posting, there were 6,000 signatures. When she
woke up, more
than 20,000 people were supporting her cause.
Here's a link to
the petition:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 07:32 PM EDT |
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Brilliant!
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 08:02 PM EDT |
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Ok, so it was Ed, with the thumb drive,
by the computer.
Or so they say. But...
Officials said
they still don’t know how Snowden got access to an order marked "Top Secret"
from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or a highly-classified
directive from President Obama authorizing a military target list for cyber
attacks. Neither document would be widely shared, or normally available to a
low-level NSA employee.
Well, perhaps he stumbled upon them
because others higher up in the food chain were secretly collecting them.
Or
perhaps because they use Windows? Maybe he discovered
a trojan network and/or
bot command and control already
in place inside that was already collecting
files.
Perhaps everything now known to the public has already
been
exfiltrated by other parties but they are keeping it
secret so as to continue to
exfiltrate more data.
Maybe it really is the
tip of the
iceberg.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 11:04 PM EDT |
f-secure.com and
followup
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:02 AM EDT |
Edward Snowden has a lot to say, does anyone want to do a
transcript ...
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v=9988C0C07C1CF71E9ADE598760F70DA2">link<
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:14 AM EDT |
"Stop reporting your online activities to the American
government with these
free alternatives to proprietary
software."
Link list:
http://prism-break.org/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:27 AM EDT |
Copyright scholars have long been pretty certain
that "Happy
Birthday to You" is in the public domain, despite the fact
that
Warner/Chappell claims copyright on it and charges
impressive licensing fees to
use it in public performances.
Those fees, however, are much lower than a
copyright lawsuit
would be, so everyone shrugs and pays them. Until now.
A
documentary film company working on a movie about "Happy
Birthday" has
assembled a huge body of evidence showing that
the song has been in the public
domain since the 1920s, and
is suing Warner to get them to return the hundreds
of
millions they've improperly charged in licensing since. This
is gonna be
great.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:36 AM EDT |
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing
companies are
working closely with U.S. national security
agencies, providing sensitive
information and in return
receiving benefits that include access to classified
intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
Michael Riley, Bloomberg[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 06:22 AM EDT |
G8 'Tax Haven'
remarks. We've commented plenty on some aspects of Delaware's attitude to
business here, but not this one AFAIK. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 10:23 AM EDT |
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article about an alleged video of Toronto
mayor Rob Ford supposedly smoking crack. He denied there ever was such a video.
However, in the course of a recent drug bust, it appears the wire taps revealed
discussion of the video, including the mayor's involment, weeks before news of
it hit the media.
‘I don't answer to the mayor,’ says Bill Blair as Rob Ford
scandal deepens with police raids
Grilled about Rob Ford, Toronto's top
cop refuses to rule out the possibility of raid evidence related to the
mayor.
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Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: DannyB on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
Microsoft
Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches
Them
Bloomberg came out with quite a bombshell last night,
discussing how lots of tech companies apparently work with the NSA and other
government agencies, not to pass data on users over to the government, but to share exploit information, sometimes before
it's public or patched -- in some cases so it can be useful for the US
government to use proactively. Last month, we had written about how the feds
were certainly collecting hacks and
vulnerabilities for offensive purposes, but it wasn't clear at the time that
some of these exploits were coming directly from the companies
themselves.
[ . . . omitted text . . . ]
That's fairly
incredible. You'd expect Microsoft and other tech companies to be focused on
fixing the bugs first, not letting the NSA exploit the vulnerabilities on
foreign computers.
Wow. I feel more secure
already.
I'm sure foreign governments are glad that when they pay
monopoly prices to a foreign convicted monopolist that they can rest assured
that the US government won't have back doors into their
computers.
Nevermind that story about NSA Key in Microsoft code from
more than a decade ago.
Nothing to see here. Move
along.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 12:20 PM EDT |
Investor focus will now shift from the court case to a competitive landscape
that already appears to be growing more intense, said Jefferies analyst Brandon
Couillard. He noted that competitors like Bio-Reference Laboratories and Quest
Diagnostics Inc. plan to provide alternative BRCA tests.
Ahead of the Bell: Myriad shares continue slide [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:08 PM EDT |
Claim 19 in the re-exam 90/012,304 of U.S. Patent 7,469,381 has now been allowed
(as of June 12) and the re-exam has been terminated.
So, don't get all excited and carried away the next time you read about a
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:33 PM EDT |
Is this the last word on gene patenting?
Stanford University lawyers
apparently don't think so. The human body doesn't naturally make cDNA like the
synthetic BRCA1 and BRCA2 that Myriad makes—but viruses are able to make cDNA.
The Supreme Court ruling addressed this by saying that it's a rare phenomenon.
But how rare is rare enough? This issue may make its way to courts in the
future, Stanford law fellow Jake Sherkow wrote in a blog post.
In addition,
cDNA may not hold up to patent challenges in the future because the methods for
making cDNA are well known and commonly used...
W
hat's Next For Gene Patenting? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: designerfx on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:35 PM EDT |
Phandro
id: 4th amendment/fisa
surprising to be on Phandroid, but it's well
written. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:46 PM EDT |
When I first joined Carleton, just three out of thirty professors in
the economics department were female. Then one retired, one moved to Montreal,
and I was the only female professor around on a regular basis.
For the most
part, I didn't mind. If I was the kind of person who objected to being in a
male-dominated profession, I wouldn't have gone into economics in the first
place. But the absence of women meant I had to socialize with male colleagues,
or not socialize at all. I had to work out what kinds of interactions with my
male colleagues were socially or otherwise acceptable. It wasn't obvious, at
first, where to draw the line.
Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 08:57 PM EDT |
terrorist labeling
Who gets to pass out the
"terrorist" label? Non-violent activists are labeled as possible terrorists.
Gosh, privatizing so many functions of the government these
days!
--
Bondfire "its not terrorism if the government does it"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 01:08 AM EDT |
June 14, 2013
By Ted Ullyot, Facebook General Counsel
https://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-
Including-All-National
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 01:23 AM EDT |
Here's what a Google spokesperson said to The
Verge
(emphasis ours):
We have always believed that it's important to
differentiate between different types of government
requests. We already
publish criminal requests separately
from National Security Letters. Lumping
the two
categories
together would be a step back for users. Our request to
the
government is clear: to be able to publish aggregate numbers
of national
security requests, including FISA disclosures,
separately.
Dieter Bohn, The
Verge
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Twitter agrees - Benjamin Lee, Legal Director at Twitter:
"We
agree with @Google: It's important to be able to publish
numbers of national
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disclosures—separately" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 01:48 AM EDT |
An interesting thing happened in the Zimmerman trial jury selection this week. A
crazy ( if the attempt to get on the jury wasn't proof enough, the subsequent
trespass of the juror is ) person tried to become a stealth to get on the jury,
but got caught due to a facebook posting.
In some subsequent discussions people were suggesting that the man should have
made his account private.
An interesting question then pops up, can a judge require that potential jurors
give attorneys access to their social media accounts?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 02:25 AM EDT |
Where will the madness end?
Google begins world-first balloon-borne
broadband trial in Canterbury
National Business Review
Google's 'internet
balloons' offer remote areas web access
The Telegraph
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 02:31 AM EDT |
from the you-have-to-be-kidding-me
dept
The
government has been passing around some
"talking points" to politicians and the
press trying to spin
the NSA surveillance story. We've got the talking points
about scooping up business records (i.e., all data on all
phone calls) and on
the internet program known as PRISM.
Mike Masnick, TechDirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 03:33 PM EDT |
"Anthony M. Malabehar finished a sumptuous meal that
included crab, lobsters
and dessert and then announced that
he had no money to pay the $69.27
tab.
He was arrested, pleaded guilty and earlier this month was
sentenced to three years in prison.
In delivering the prison term, the
judge took into
consideration that Malabehar, 47, of Mattoon, Ill., had 70
prior arrests. He also had been released from jail the day
before his meal for
not paying at another restaurant."
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