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Destruction of natural environment

dimanche 15 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Businesses that destroy the natural environment often use slaves to do it.

Giving money to stop refugees

dimanche 15 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Giving Money to Eritrea and Sudan to Stop Refugees is Almost Satire. The corrupt repression of those countries is what drives the people to flee.

Personal data in remote storage

samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Microsoft offers European users services that keep their data in a European computer run by a European trustee company, so that the US government has no jurisdiction over them.

This is a sensible solution for that one specific problem. It does not alter the point that it's unwise to entrust your personal data to any remote storage.

It also does not make Microsoft's proprietary software acceptable, or excuse its malicious functionalities.

UK Snooper's Charter would endanger security researchers

samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 01:00

The Snooper's Charter would endanger computer security researchers in the UK.

There might be one way around this. If you publish info about the back door you found, encrypted, on a foreign site, and send the key to another foreign site that will publish the information in several months no matter what you subsequently say or do, you might then be safe discussing the matter with some foreign colleagues with a view to publishing it in a better way with better checking.

Of course, it's nuts to make security researchers go through these steps to protect themselves from state repression.

14-year-olds charged over sex video

samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Two 14-year-olds in New York State face felony charges for making a video in which one of them has sex with someone else. Other students they sent the video to are being punished as well.

Provided the other star was involved voluntarily (information not available), then I think it is wrong to punish any of them.

It is even more clearly wrong to punish students for receiving a message containing the video. And parents that examine their children's phones to see if they have been sent sexts are held by this twisted law to have committed the same "felony".

Any law making it a crime to possess a copy of some text, photo or video is injustice, pure and simple.