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Comment Re:Once again the FSF does not understand (Score 1) 403

by jimktaylor on Sunday May 18, 2014 @06:26AM (#47030539) Attached to: Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox

Mozilla are not just adopting DRM, they are supporting the addition of an interface to DRM to the web standards. They had the option of supporting DRM via a generic plugin interface or external media player to meet user needs to view DRM content which would have at least helped to keep DRM out of the web. DRM played in an external media player can also be sandboxed much more effectively, and could be on a separate device.

Submission + - Spying by N.S.A. Ally Ensnared U.S. Law Firm (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by mendax on Saturday February 15, 2014 @04:03PM

mendax writes: The New York Times is reporting that '[t]he list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers.

'A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance.

'The government of Indonesia had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, according to the February 2013 document. It reports that the N.S.A.’s Australian counterpart, the Australian Signals Directorate, notified the agency that it was conducting surveillance of the talks, including communications between Indonesian officials and the American law firm, and offered to share the information.'

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