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Comment Re:Leaked by codenomicon (Score 4, Insightful) 582

Gloat? About what? This only provides proof of the benefits of open source - a significant flaw was discovered, which is exactly the claimed advantage - the more eyes, the better.

Anyone who would claim that proprietary software is somehow more secure is making a huge leap - there are only a few eyes, if any, looking for unreported issues - so there may be even more serious issues which have existed for much longer, which only a few bad guys know about. If MS or anyone else thinks that their proprietary SSL implementation has no security breaches, let them put a guarantee with full financial liability behind that thought.

Comment Re:I expect... (Score 1) 126

Although it varies by state, in general pepper spray may be used wherever use of physical force is. Protecting property from damage usually falls into that category.

Comment Re:To the point... (Score 2) 148

How can an AC be expected to actually read the ruling they're commenting on, which specifically addresses his complaint?

There was no evidence at trial that Auernheimerâ(TM)s actions evinced any contact with New Jersey, much less contact that was âoesubstantial.â The Government has not cited, and we have not found, any case where the locus of the effects, standing by itself, was sufficient to confer constitutionally sound venue./blockquote)

Comment To the point... (Score 5, Informative) 148

Spitler was in San Francisco, California and Auernheimer was in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The servers that they accessed were physically located in Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. Although no evidence was presented regarding the location of the Gawker reporter, it is undisputed that he was not in New Jersey.

He was indicted and tried in NJ, despite none of the involved parties being located there.

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