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• On the post: Does The NYPD Really Think That Shooting Photos/Videos Of Protests Is 'Disorderly Conduct?'

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 01:04pm

  Re: extensive quotes used w/o permission/linkback

  wtf! Does she know that this is BestNetTech? This will probably get its own article...

• On the post: Man Facing 75 Years In Jail For Recording The Police; Illinois Assistant AG Says No Right To Record Police

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2011 @ 12:30pm

  The reason that you are seeing more and more of these cases is that you live in a police-state...you just haven't realized it.
  
  The moment the American people allowed their government to openly hold people without trial and commit torture, America became a police-state.
  
  Expect to see more of the same and worse...
  
  No right to carry a firearm...even if you actually do have the right (Connecticut):
  www.theagitator.com/2011/08/27/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse-unless-youre-in-law-enforcement-2/
  
  No right to resist criminal police action (Indiana):
  http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html

• On the post: Man Facing 75 Years In Jail For Recording The Police; Illinois Assistant AG Says No Right To Record Police

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2011 @ 11:56am

  When "the law" is the problem, the law cannot be the solution.

• On the post: Could New Zealand's Parliament Lose Its Internet Connection Under Its Own Three Strikes Law?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2011 @ 11:42am

  Politicians, like clever criminals, are above the law...EVERYONE knows that!

• On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2011 @ 04:44am

  Government love other people's money

  Apple has money in the bank...the US government doesn't...I would be concerned :)

• On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2011 @ 12:02am

  Tall poppy syndrome

  I am a cynic - I believe that governments targets companies that become too uppity. (Apple should be concerned as well).
  
  I love Google, and would happily pay for their products if I had to...it saddens me that they might be distracted by this sort of action. (like Microsoft and IBM before them).
  
  It also surprises me that the American people let their government subsidize and bail-out broken industries (banks, GM, etc), while at the same time undermining the businesses that are successful. Up until now America has been lucky that they have been able to come up with the "next big thing" - I am not sure that this will always be the case.

• On the post: Reports Claim That Pakistan Is Trying To Ban Encryption Under Telco Law

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Trying to ban encryption.

  As will some of the commentators on this blog!

• On the post: Potential Lulz: Security Experts Think UK Police Tricked Into Arresting The Wrong Person Over LulzSec Hacks

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 12:39pm

  They wanted to ride the pony...

• On the post: Potential Lulz: Security Experts Think UK Police Tricked Into Arresting The Wrong Person Over LulzSec Hacks

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 06:13am

  CSI is fiction!

  Script kiddies would NOT have been able to hack:
  ~HB Gary Federal (Internet Security experts ... lol)
  ~Italian Police (the cyber crime evidence server ... lol)
  
  While it is possible that certain intelligence agencies have tools and people at the their disposal which may allow them to "see where the tunnels lead", I very much doubt that the authorities would allow these tools (if they actually exist) to be used in garden variety criminal matters and certainly would not allow these techniques to be documented in court (such techniques would have to break a few laws).
  
  I suspect that many of the arrests that have been made over the last few months are related to the use of the LOIC software as it is not really feasible to stealth the identity of machines running a DDoS tool (proxy'ing DDoS scale traffic would be difficult).
  
  As for the identity of Topiary...maybe it is kid in Scotland, or maybe a kid in Sweden...or maybe this is all just disinformation (which is what I would expect from the spokesperson of a hacker group).

• On the post: Potential Lulz: Security Experts Think UK Police Tricked Into Arresting The Wrong Person Over LulzSec Hacks

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 04:58am

  The masterminds behind LulzSec and Anonymous have established that they are competent hackers.
  
  A competent hacker will access the internet from an open / hacked wifi connection / university internet lab, and route his / her handy-work through a network of rooted servers (spread around the world), with possibly a VPN (paid for with stolen credit card) and/ or TOR thrown in for good measure.
  
  If the authorities are able to trace an attack through this web to its origin (and this in itself is unlikely) the person that they will arrest will be a hapless idiot with an insecure wifi account / or rooted machine. Of course anyone of us could be that hapless idiot as the hackers have demonstrated that they are able to make "experts" from law enforcement and internet security companies look like infants.

• On the post: Homeland Security Finally Admits To Latest Domain Seizures; Arrests Guy For Selling Unauthorized 'Sons Of Anarchy' T-Shirts

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 11:25pm

  Breaking news: An American politician has called for your arrest (or worse) on the grounds of disseminating information considered vital to national security...

• On the post: Man Made Famous Over 2006 Arrest For Videotaping Police… Arrested Again While Videotaping Police

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2011 @ 05:52am

  Punishment for what exactly? Felony use of a camera?
  
  When the police are indistinguishable from criminals it becomes a case of he who has the most guns wins. In my country the poorly-paid police have learnt the hard way that the serious criminals have more money, faster cars and bigger guns. As a result crime is pretty rampant.
  
  When the bad guys expect the police to shoot first and ask questions later, they just get more guns and make sure that they shoot first instead.

• On the post: How The US Gov't's Bogus Extradition Attempt Of Richard O'Dwyer Is Destroying Lives For No Reason

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 09:18am

  The land of freedom and liberty

  I would not expect anything less from a country a where you can actually go to jail for growing your own veggies! [ http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/12/woman-faces-jail-tim.html ]

• On the post: Wikileaks Can Receive Visa & Mastercard Donations Again… But Visa Doesn't Understand Why

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 12:03am

  Both VISA and MASTERCARD have both had to pay out billions of dollars in anti-trust cases in the past...they should tread carefully. Maybe time time to start pushing for their break-up?

• On the post: Does A 27-Second Video Showing How To 'Hack' The NYT Paywall Violate The DMCA?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2011 @ 07:05am

  I don't click on NYT links...I don't think that their content is worth the effort it would take to disable javascript or fiddle with the URL.

• On the post: Priced Out Of Your Medication? Must Be All That 'Expensive' Big Pharma R&D

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2011 @ 05:53am

  If you think that there is easy money to be made in pharma...set up your own drug company...better yet setup a non-profit drug company. Or move to Cuba.

• On the post: So The FBI Can Just Take A Copy Of All Instapaper User Data With No Recourse?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2011 @ 06:31am

  The FBI will no doubt go unpunished for what is in essence theft.
  
  Ironically it is this sort of unpunished behavior that gave rise to groups like wikileaks, anonymous, lulsec in the first place.

• On the post: Is Pretending Your Domain Name Has Been Seized By ICE The New Rickroll?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 10:55am

  ..or one can just change the name servers?
  ns1.seizedservers.com
  ns2.seizedservers.com

• On the post: Is Pretending Your Domain Name Has Been Seized By ICE The New Rickroll?

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 10:45am

  I wonder are there any legal issues associated with use of the ICE imagery?
  
  Might make a cool holding page for any idle domains.

• On the post: Police Arrest A Bunch Of Folks In Europe For Linking To Infringing Content

  

  Michael Lockyear ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 03:23am

  If I link to a webpage (the actual content does not matter as most content is subject to copyright), how I am I to know whether or not it has been copied without the permission of the copyright holder?

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