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Comment Re:What about the legal implications? (Score 4, Interesting) 101

Depends on how specifically Brøderbund acquired the original rights to the game back in 1989, and how subsequent holders acquired their rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I would expect that if the agreements included source code, they might have expected transfer of copyright ownership.

Comment Re:Baloney (Score 1) 467

Yet, for some reason, computers and electronics will start working better when I get close to them. It's almost like they know that I am ready, willing, and eager to take them apart and that I'm carrying a screwdriver. It's even the machines that I haven't seen before.

Ditto. I've also perceived this apparent effect, but I wonder how much of it is that users stop misusing the device while I'm nearby.

Comment Re:Big crowds are targets (Score 1) 196

Wrong. Kip Hawley was right when he said that this would merely shift terrorists' training focus to people on those pre-screened lists.

I think by "Kip Hawley" you meant "Bruce Schneier".

What the Trusted Traveler program does is create two different access paths into the airport: high security and low security. The intent is that only good guys will take the low-security path, and the bad guys will be forced to take the high-security path, but it rarely works out that way. You have to assume that the bad guys will find a way to take the low-security path.
  https://www.schneier.com/essay-051.html

Hawley's most recent dump recapitulates things Schneier has been saying for years and which Schneier tried to impress on him when he was still head of the TSA. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/hawley_channels.html

Finally agreeing with Schneier after he's no longer in a position to use the information is a little worthless.

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