I want to go back to voting with punch cards. It's cheap, simple (unless you're a retiree in West Palm Beach), there are less opportunities for shenanigans, and there's an archive to go back to for a recount rather than "oops, district 733 crashed; they don't count this year".

Sabotage: yes. Cyber terrorism? No. Warfare, yes, but not terrorism.

(A (Campaign contributions) * B (number of years of service) ) + ( C (cost of jobs given to friends/relatives ) - D (their actual productivity) ) + E (speaking fees paid to the senator after the senator's retirement) = TCO Now subtract TCO from the gains from favorable legislation and you'll see that your average senator can be a real bargain. Collect them all!

I won't consider him guilty until he's convicted, and maybe not even then. He had to know as soon as he gave up anonymity, something like this would happen to him. The powers that be will ruin him as much as they can, as publicly as they can, both as a warning to others and as a distraction from the truths he helped reveal.

Even a false positive might only be false after the fact. In this case, I think if the cops showed up asking about the curious searches that they a) wouldn't have gone through with it and b) might have been busted for possesion even if they still would have.

The female doesn't seem to have been arrested yet but the boyfriend has. I'm expecting a breakup.

Great post. I was able to find my own hash without the 00000. I wasn't able to find common passwords until I swapped out the first five chars for 00000 and now they're all over the place.

Good link. The file seems legit. My hash is in there. Fucking Idiots at Linkedin.

If that counts as a "smear", turn your sensitivity dial down. It might go to 11 but it shouldn't really stay there.

He lost 11 months of freedom and overall two years of his life fighting bullshit charges. He had to move in with his parents, his girlfriend left him (she got arrested too), I presume he's no longer employed, and two years later he has nothing to show for it but a hollow victory in court. The government got what they wanted out of him: He's a warning to others of what they can do to you even if you've done nothing wrong.

Your comment made me think of the last time I used wired ethernet on my MacBook. It has been at least a month. Before that, probably six months. I'd like to have it, sure. But will I miss it? Probably not so much. I'll enjoy USB 3.0 (if that surprising rumor is true) much more than I'll miss Gig-E.

If you can't deploy nuclear weapons, you're not the most powerful organization on earth. Then again, if they have root at a Chinese missle silo, I may be wrong.

The Chinese will use what works. They do not care where it came from or how they got it.

I'm guessing that his particular machine had a failure similar but not exactly what Apple had quantified as the video card failure. Maybe the video card and the motherboard both popped. Apple techs saw this, or at least a failure they weren't expecting, and said this is not the video card problem and therefore we won't repair it. I'm guessing Apple corporate sent lawyers and not techs to the court case and when he trotted out his evidence they were unprepared to rebut it.

That's not a stupid question. It looks like Seattle Rex has gone out of his way to keep his name out of his blog (I've skimmed, not really searched, so this may not be true). His whois record is almost anonymized, too. However.... if there's a court case, that means there are court records. Many districts put their court records online to some degree and Seattle looks to be one of them.

I searched for all court cases involving a company named Apple in King county, WA and I found one filed in small claims court. Case number 125-00818 was filed March 1, 2012 (which matches up with a blog entry he made). The details of cases aren't available online for free, they charge $0.25 per page here, and that's pretty much where I stopped. I'm not going to spend the cash to find out more.

Roughly half of Americans are have below average intelligence. Could they be.... the same half?