2024-10-08
Beyond its “told you so” relevance to the crypto wars, one point this story makes is that when your phone service provider gets pwned, normally they have to disclose that promptly, but the USG can suppress the disclosure if there's a natsec angle. Consumer (and shareholder) protection loses out. …
TechCrunch
Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors
Security professionals and technologists have for years been sounding the alarm about the security risks of backdoors … Riana / @riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org : “Blaze told TechCrunc...
2023-08-14
If libraries were invented now, they would be illegal. And make no mistake, that's the ultimate goal that the copyright cartels are working toward. — https://www.nytimes.com/... [embedded post]
New York Times
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs”
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.