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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:58 am

panamint_patty wrote:It doesn't seem likely that Swartz committed suicide. That doesn't add up. The pedo conspiracy theory is way out in Lululand as far as I'm concerned, though. As for the Young Turks, they often go after straw men in a weak effort to make their point. For some reason Cenk is fixated on Ted Nugent. The cheap shots they resort to do nothing but lower my opinion of them.

Agreed. Currently the EFF has lots of information posted about Swartz. He was highly revered in the computer and hacking communities.
At EFF, Aaron's death created two imperatives on issues that are close to our hearts. The first is to continue his work to open up closed and entrenched systems that prevent ordinary people from having access to the world’s knowledge, especially the knowledge created with our tax dollars. More on that soon.

The second imperative is to attack the computer crime laws that were so horribly misused in the prosecution of Aaron. That is the focus of this post.

LINK: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/effs-initial-improvements-aarons-law-computer-crime-reform
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:46 am

State of the Union 2013: President Obama on Growing Cyber-Attack Threat
And here we have the president doing his best to exaggerate the threat of cyber-attack in order to persuade the good citizens of this country to accept further restrictions on freedoms and liberties!
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby cactuspete » Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:25 am

Massive cyber attack hits Internet :down:
Both companies are acting irresponsibly in this case. Spam should be eliminated and attacks utilizing flooding should not be allowed. But these tactics have been used for a long time. Not sure why this kind of thing is all of a sudden getting media attention... other than to hype the problem in order to persuade people to back legislation to limit internet freedoms...
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:08 am

How the Sentencing Guidelines Work Against Defendants in CFAA Cases
So, smart people who commit a computer crime deserve more prison time than dumb people who commit computer crime? Isn't that a form of discrimination? What's even more alarming is the overly broad definition of what constitutes a computer crime asserted by this ridiculous piece of legislation. The idiots in charge are at it again!
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BTW, CFAA stands for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Unfortunately, there's more. Section 2B1.1(b)(10) also calls for a two level increase for using "sophisticated means" to commit the crime. For Auernheimer, that was Spitler's act of running the script that simply modified a number in a public URL. It could easily be the same thing for Swartz, who also allegedly ran a script in order to bulk download the files from JSTOR, despite the fact he actually had permission to access the files, just not with a bulk downloader.

LINK: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-understanding-how-sentencing-guidelines-work-cfaa-cases-0
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby mrgreen » Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:10 pm

The Copyright Lobotomy: How Intellectual Property Makes Us Pretend To Be Stupid :up2:
Thanks A2Z for reminding me of this site. Haven't stopped by TechDirt for awhile. This article does a nice job of explaining the way I look at copyright.
In all the discussion about the various reasons people give for violating copyright, I think there's one that goes unmentioned: a lot of people just refuse to pretend to be stupid.

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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:49 am

Cyber Crime & Punishment: 5 hackers charged with biggest US card fraud ever
Long term credit card hacking scheme solved, but some of those involved still at large.
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:58 am

Famous Hacker, Barnaby Jack, Dies at Age 36
This guy was famous for exposing security flaws in medical devices and other automated gadgets including ATM machines.
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby desertrat » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:06 pm

Want to learn how to hack: Lessons available online
Hacking is not synonymous with computer crime, since most hackers never commit a crime. Hackers for the most part are just people who like to experiment with computers by programming code or tweaking hardware. The news media likes to dwell on the minority of hackers who commit crimes, but that's the news media for you. They'll do anything to sensationalize the everyday and the mundane!
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby pcslim » Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:40 am

Programmer Behind Heartbleed Bug Speaks Out :mad2:
Trivial, but severe, comparable to misspelling a word. The problem is that the NSA exploited this bug for two years before it was finally discovered. I think this goes to show that the NSA commits more crimes than it stops!
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Re: Computer Crime

Postby cactuspete » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:14 am

'Revenge Porn' Victims Are Right To Be Angry, But Perhaps Not Here
This story is really about two very different things. On the one hand you have a website that features revenge porn and on the other hand you have the question as to whether the service provider is in some way responsible for what users put on websites hosted by the service provider. In this case GoDaddy which hosts hundreds of thousands of websites is the service provider. They have no reasonable ability to monitor the content of the websites which they host, nor should they since that gets into censorship and first amendment issues. The judge in this case correctly realized that service providers are not liable for content on websites which they host and that's the important issue dealt with in this news clip.
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As for revenge porn...
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