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Thursday, January 24, 2013

postheadericon The War On Computing: What Happens When Authorities Don't Understand Technology

Course, I was covering a large portion of Aaron Swartz lately, but his case is actually one of many similar cases involving people in positions of authority who do not understand the basic technology, but feel

that something should be illegal because they are trying to superimpose a vision analog in a digital world. For Swartz, used the famous Carmen Ortiz incredibly false and misleading "stealing is stealing" concept. However, as Cory Doctorow has recently been fond of pointing out, we are entering a war in general purpose computing, and it is just a front.
recent clashes Two others show the same kind of things that happen in slightly different contexts. A few months ago, we wrote about the case of Andrew Auernheimer, the security researcher who was convicted and is likely to face a long period of time in jail for exposing a security flaw in flagrant AT & T helped (and nobody


) to collect personal data of the owners of iOS devices. Remember, AT & T has created some stupid security, making this information public through its own API. Now, on the verge of being condemned, Auernheimer asked to write a "statement of responsibility" of the court, and decided to make a blog in which you say aloud what a farce the whole situation is as follows:
Facts
: AT & T admitted at trial that "publish" data. His words. Public offering, the programmatic API access spend more than a billion times a day. Twitter erupted 13 billion of its API ages ago. This is something that happens more than the entire population of the Earth every day. The government has no problem with this until I turn the result into something offensive to important people. People with "disruptive" start-up, this is your warning: They're coming for you next.
Another of my pursuers, Zach Intrater said a remark I made about Goatse Security, my workgroup security information from a certification process for systems stating "tight Goatse" was a proof of my intention to profit personally. For those who do not joke Goatse is a meme Internet refers to a man's anus open very broad. coils mind.

I can not survive as well. I am happy to be hitting a prison cell soon. they ruined my business. Obtain federal approval that I work for or with a company who rejected because the CEO had a social network profile with occupation listed as they forbid me to play any team that is not controlled by government "hacker" federal .. I'm doing the best I can to slang Perl code on an Android device to meet the bail conditions. It is not pretty. Meanwhile, in Canada, it was discussed how the computer Dawson College students Ahmed Al-Khabaz was driven by the discovery of a security flaw in a system that is used by many Canadian universities to store personal data of students. In your case, part of the problem is that, after alerting people in the hole returned a few days to run a script to see if the hole had closed. This has made the company that manages the system to accuse him of criminal activity:

"was Edouard Cup, President of Skytech. Says it was the second time I had seen in his files, and what he did was a cyber attack. The I apologized several times and explained that it was one of those who discovered the vulnerability earlier this week and was just testing to make sure it is fixed. said I could go to prison for six to twelve months for what he had done and if I do not agree to meet and sign a non-disclosure agreement which might call the RCMP to arrest me. J ' So I signed the agreement. "



Even with the agreement, Dawson was expelled. While Dawson maintains its decision, the company said Skytech it is now proposed to hire part-time.


Yes, in these three cases, it can be argued that the individual has gone further than the rest. Some might call it rude. Swartz downloaded much more than the target system, even if the network was open and the terms allowed for unlimited downloads. Auernheimer not only find the hole, but was removed a large amount of data and sent some to be a journalist. Al-Khabaz not only found the security hole, but she came back and tested the system later. But in the context of a person living in this kind of world and includes technology, three represent behavior quite natural
. If technology allows, why not
probe the system and see what happens? This is the natural curiosity of young minds and insightful, trying to see what information is there. When available, how
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