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Comment Re:Truce (Score 0) 164

Automatically 'pushing' messages from one computer to another is something a "practitioner skilled in the art" (mostly anyone here) can do and consider obvious.

Which is what email has been doing since at least 1982 when RFC821 was published.

Comment Re:they'll come in handy... (Score 1) 123

How would this work for female astronauts? For males, external catheters and urine collection bags are established technology and could conceivably be incorporated into a close fitting space suit. For a female,. urine collection/recycling in a suit does not seem nearly so straightforward. The collection tube would have to form a permanent (or at least while she is urinating) water-tight seal over her labia otherwise the urine would pool in the suit (or where there is gravity, run down her legs).

Comment Re:It's time to take a historical approach... (Score 1) 513

And any person putting themselves forward as a candidate for a position of political power is demonstrating that they are unsuited to hold such a position. While there are rare exceptions, in general, politicians should not be trusted to rule a country. They are habitual liars - they do not honour promises made during election campaigns; they are devious - they are masters at avoiding giving answers to direct questions, they often answer a different question to the one which was asked.

Comment Re:Why so complicated? (Score 1) 62

If you go to "mybank.com" and they say "we are mybank.com, trust us,we are who we say we are, here is an encrypted connection, use it to send your bank info", would you proceed? i hope you wont.

Many banks do that when they phone you. They do not present their number and then ask you to answer their security questions (the ones you have to answer when you phone them). Then act surprised if you tell them that as they called you anonymously that they have to first demonstrate that they are calling from the bank and are not scammers attempting to elicit your security details.

If you were presented with a fingerprint on first connection and mybank published its fingerprint 'out of band;' (eg having printed on every paper statement, available (in print) in every branch, etc) then this would give a much greater level of trust. On the other hand this only works well with entities with which you already have a relationship not a "random" web commerce site. Though, with entities such as banks with which you already have a relationship they could provide their X.509 certificate out of band by giving it to you on a CD, USB stick, etc.

Comment Re:takedown notices are one-sided (Score 1) 157

a statement that, under penalty of perjury, [evil RIAA goon lawyer] is authorized to act for the copyright holder

So as WB were NOT not acting with the authority of the copyright owner, were they not committing perjury? Unlike the other statements quoted, this one does not contain the 'goof faith' clause.

Comment Re:well managed self-signed certs are safer (Score 1) 152

It would help if the browsers warned if a site sends a different certificate than the previous time(s) you visited the site. To handle certificate expiry, a certificate could also be accepted if it is signed by the one already held by the browser. That way if someone did set up a MITM attack, anyone who had previously visited the site would be warned that something may be amiss. For the 'popular' sites like Google, facebaook, Amazon etc. it is very likely that a large number of people would have the certificate prior to the setting up of the MITM and the alarm would be quickly raised.

Comment Re:Quandary (Score 3, Insightful) 264

Thus if you know of the superinjunction, you are forbidden from saying what the superinjunction says you can't say.

If you don't know of the superinjunction, you can say what you like.

In this case one of the things the court is ordering is that the identity of the person posting the tweet be revealed. So how does the court know that the tweeter was either aware of the existence of the superinjunction or, if they were aware of the existence of a superinjunction, that the person about whom they were tweeting was the subject of the injunction?

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