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• On the post: As Press Freedom Dies In Turkey, Twitter Is There To Help Dig Its Grave

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 08:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: They just following the USA's lead

  Amazing how some platform choosing what it hosts or not makes everyone else mindless sheep. In particular, those people who criticize these platforms with some nuance, somehow, are mindless. Most especially those who defend the right to speech they don't personally subscribe to. What a bunch of assholes.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Of Course Twitter Can Kick Racists Off Its Platform

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 11:17am

  Re:

  Privately owned public spaces on the internet and in meatspace are subject to laws, rights, and responsibilities which differ with your claims. Just like the inside of a private mall.

• On the post: DOJ Asking Court To Force Facebook To Break Encryption On Messenger Voice Calls

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 10:11am

  Re:

  Why

• On the post: Head Of Department Of Justice Bashes Justice System Because It Blocks Too Many Of Trump's Orders

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 01:53pm

  The most powerful and privileged are always the loudest "victims".

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Of Course Twitter Can Kick Racists Off Its Platform

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2018 @ 11:10am

  And then explains why the lower court was simply wrong to think that an unfair competition claim is pre-empted by CDA 230:

  Is it too early in the afternoon for me, or should this be the other way around?

• On the post: NJ Courts Impose Ridiculous Password Policy 'To Comply With NIST' That Does Exactly What NIST Says Not To Do

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:49am

  Re: Security Theater

  What is good too is that then yer potential bad actor knows passwords are changed like clockwork and when.

• On the post: NJ Courts Impose Ridiculous Password Policy 'To Comply With NIST' That Does Exactly What NIST Says Not To Do

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Same Policy

  And this is one of the dumbest things with passwords. A low character limit is bad enough, but it's even more fun when they do not tell you what the limit is...

• On the post: Google's Location Info Failure Might Interest The FTC

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:42am

  Re:

  Sure it's radical. You are asking the internet to go back to 1998 or pre-web, more or less, before businesses took everything over.
  
  Of course, you could be more radical and propose that actual human beings should be on equal footing any time they deal with a fictitious business person. Any form of contract may be negotiated, and data about you generated by yourself is yours to control (barter, offer, withdraw), which would be the relevant upshot here.

• On the post: Getting Worse: The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Jumps Into The Aloha Poke Situation As Chicago Chain Stonewalls

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:11am

  Re: Office of Hawaiian Affairs also problem

  Of course they will, they have been forced to do so. It's the exact opposite of appropriation, and know as colonialism.
  
  But nice try.

• On the post: Ajit Pai Opposes Effort To Update The Definition Of Broadband

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 01:06am

  This is the same country with fake 4G and wants to set the standards and technology for 5G, which will bring us antennae in quantity to rival the sun-blotting telegraph cables of yesteryear, but will be dumbed down to 4.5G tech (i.e., 3.7G) so our carriers will look competitive and innovative. Sometimes. On paper. Because we said so, dammit.

• On the post: NJ Courts Impose Ridiculous Password Policy 'To Comply With NIST' That Does Exactly What NIST Says Not To Do

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:57am

  I was actually very pleasantly surprised recently in receiving an email from my bank suggesting some actually good password practices. One item included something that i always do: Answer your "security questions" without any regard for the question. I was shocked, to say the least. What is your mother's maiden name? Wrenchgoingstravinskyxiexieburger.

• On the post: In-N-Out Sends Punny Cease And Desist Over Fairly Clear Trademark Infringement

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:28am

  They both look good and it didn't cost a lot of money.
  
  Are we sure these people are doing business in the general modern business climate and in the US, or have i slipped into another universe?

• On the post: Getting Worse: The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Jumps Into The Aloha Poke Situation As Chicago Chain Stonewalls

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2018 @ 12:19am

  but the better route to victory against Aloha Poke Co. is almost certainly legal arguments over its trademark more generally.

  While true, a) not everyone is, or can be, part of a trademark litigation, and b) like most anything else, the events have wider meaning outside your particular core focus, in this case some stupid business bullshit.

  I only mention this, since this point returns to mention itself. It's all pretty tautological anyway.

• On the post: Bitmovin Takes A Scorched Earth Approach To Patent Troll, Who Limps Away Quickly

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 09:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you see no possibility of abuse in the reverse?

  _those terms are used absolutely interchangeably. _
  
  Now i know you are just completely and fractally dishonest.

• On the post: Bitmovin Takes A Scorched Earth Approach To Patent Troll, Who Limps Away Quickly

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 09:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you see no possibility of abuse in the reverse?

  The current settlement system is not a low cost way to settle disputes, and is entirely skewed against the small inventor. You know, the ones that the troll farms attempt to extort by claiming the patents or actual products of others infringe on their overly-broad patents never used to produce an actual thing.
  
  How is it that you imagine the aggressor is always in the right, and somehow represents "small inventors".

• On the post: Court Says CBP Likely Violating First Amendment By Forbidding Photography Of Publicly-Viewable Border Crossings

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 06:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: MAGA = Godwin's Law

  We are the Nazi Socialist Anarchists. We are the NSA. We are not legion. We are tiny, aberrant scrutiny-avoiders. (We are also probably Communist-Papists, but we argue over the manifesto a lot. Will let you know how it shakes out.)

• On the post: Court Says CBP Likely Violating First Amendment By Forbidding Photography Of Publicly-Viewable Border Crossings

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 06:19pm

  Re: Re: The "don't wear a short skirt problem"

  Anarchists now believe giving governments more power is a thing to strive for. Film at 11. Now with more weird and contradictory assumptions pulled out of thin air.

• On the post: Court Says CBP Likely Violating First Amendment By Forbidding Photography Of Publicly-Viewable Border Crossings

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 06:14pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Considering that Canada does not share a border with Mexico, the answer would be no, CBP does not mean "Canadian Border Patrol".
  
  Even if Canada were involved in such an extreme case of overreach as to have checkpoints at the Mexican border, US court decisions regarding rights violations of particular individuals would not be what is happening. There would be something far, far more interesting afoot.
  
  Also, there is no "Canadian Border Patrol", unless you are referring to the entertainment industry, in which case ... well geez, just never mind.

• On the post: 'Oversight' Hearing Fails Utterly To Hold FCC Accountable For Lying To Congress About Fake DDOS Attack

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 03:10pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Checks and Balances

  What, like more than once? Coordinate with people years in advance and move to a district you might help win in the future based on guesses?
  
  One person cannot "vote in a way that works in the electoral college", and said college affects two offices only.
  
  In what "way" can one vote which accomplishes what you suggest? And just where do you think you are going with those goalposts?

• On the post: AT&T Sued After SIM Hijacker Steals $24 Million in Customer's Cryptocurrency

  

  orbitalinsertion ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2018 @ 08:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The results, and how people use their phone number, wittingly or not, is irrelevant to a service provider failing to properly secure and maintain customer accounts. Beyond that, many of these powers created or adopted (and force upon the user) the system whereby the goddamned mobile phone is required for multifactor authentication. (Just like the convenience of using things like fingerprint/face recognition/retina scan as a flippin' password, when they are actually equivalent to a username.)
  
  I think people are kind of dumb to trust these appliances and services, and frequently don't bother to do minimal securing of anything themselves, even when tools are provided or available. But the entire system, corporate-wise and code-wise, is based on the "(barely (or not really)) good enough" philosophy.
  
  But at the core of this matter, the issue is: Service providers not following the protocol already in place, which is plenty good enough to stop numbers from being incorrectly ported by actors who have not managed to gain access to any credentials prior to the port.
  
  Having 24m in cryptocurrency, yeah, i would do a bit more to secure that. It doesn't change the fact the the mobile providers are full-on fail here. The porting issue still exists for those of us who have absolutely nothing of value connected to our devices.

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