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Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) 345

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:14AM from the I-think-I've-heard-this-before dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Carly Fiorina wants the government to be able to "work around" encryption to aid intelligence agencies and law enforcement in their investigations, she said on Monday. The Republican presidential candidate and former HP CEO shifted the focus of her campaign to national security two days before the last Republican debate of 2015. Fiorina is the latest but not the first presidential candidate to weigh in on the encryption debate that has taken on a new life since terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

Comment Re:Our internet filter (Score 1) 143

by KenMcM on Monday March 15, 2010 @04:30AM (#31479184) Attached to: Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised

Maybe this could have been the motive for the filter when it was planned to use the ACMA blacklist, which is designed for children. Now that it only filters RC, the opposition could ask the same question. Why did you give a laptop to Little Mikey with a fibreoptic connection to boobies? Why does your filter not protect Mikey from boobies?

Comment Re:Hurr. (Score 5, Funny) 629

by KenMcM on Thursday February 25, 2010 @12:33AM (#31268530) Attached to: Beliefs Conform To Cultural Identities

Here here.

Where!?

Comment Law to be repealed (Score 2, Informative) 352

by KenMcM on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @10:30AM (#30994854) Attached to: South Australia Outlaws Anonymous Political Speech

Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has just vowed to repeal this law.

Comment Carriers can mess with this? (Score 5, Interesting) 90

by KenMcM on Saturday January 30, 2010 @12:28AM (#30959370) Attached to: Google Deducing Wireless Location Data

What's stopping carriers from deliberately slowing transmission rates for random customers during random intervals? Just enough such that Google's data is inaccurate.

Comment S/MIME support? (Score 1) 275

by KenMcM on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @11:58PM (#30760610) Attached to: Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

When will Google provide S/MIME support natively?

Comment Re:Definitely questions for... (Score 1) 434

by KenMcM on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @09:17PM (#30232610) Attached to: Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids

Is cyber-bullying even illegal?

You bet. See Section 474.17 of Schedule 1 of the Criminal Code Act 1995. From the page:

474.17 Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person uses a carriage service; and
(b) the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.

Australians aren't nearly as thick-skinned/tough as people think they are.

Comment Twitter can serve everyone! (Score 1) 205

by KenMcM on Friday October 02, 2009 @03:30AM (#29614519) Attached to: UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another

My congratulations to the Court for their embrace of technology. I propose that we use social networking to serve legal papers to everybody! Not using twitter? Not a problem! Enough RTs will mean somebody you know can hand you the tinyurl address to the PDF!

Comment Re:My ISP (EXETEL) already does this.. (Score 2, Interesting) 286

by KenMcM on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @04:14AM (#29423443) Attached to: Australian ISPs Asked To Cut Off Malware-Infected PCs

Exetel also conducted a trial of its own in regard to ISP level web filtering technologies. It made participation in this trial mandatory for all of its subscribers, disallowing them the freedom to opt-out. There's some food for thought.

Comment Re:Good luck mate (Score 1) 464

by KenMcM on Monday September 07, 2009 @08:21AM (#29338975) Attached to: Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia

I believe much more people than 30-40% were against net censorship, but look what happened...

The stubborn Senator still hasn't drafted any bill and Parliament haven't voted? Seriously, what happened? As far as I'm aware, nothing aside from the termination of the government-funded home software filter scheme has happened. This is good, it means we have the ability to prevent anything more from happening. That is, unless you've raised the white flag before the battle began.

Comment Re:Risk-free Infringement (Score 1) 101

by KenMcM on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @07:22PM (#28710041) Attached to: Australia Considering P2P 'Three Strikes' Law

Optus (cable/DSL) Telstra (cable/DSL) TPG (DSL) Internode (DSL) iiNet (DSL) iPrimus (DSL) Swiftel/People Telecom (DSL) Eftel (DSL) Dodo (DSL) Unwired (3G) These are just the major ones I can think of that provide broadband.

Comment Risk-free Infringement (Score 1) 101

by KenMcM on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @09:12AM (#28702441) Attached to: Australia Considering P2P 'Three Strikes' Law

Hmm.... So now I won't be criminally prosecuted or even sued for infringing copyright, I'll just be disconnected from my ISP? What's stopping me from signing up with a new one? Hell, maybe I'll sign up with a different provider just for committing copyright infringement. And there's no risk at all. Good one Conroy, that makes as much sense as trying to filter the internet.

Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books 219

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 03, 2009 @08:02PM from the it-was-the-best-of-times,-it-was-comcastic dept.

theodp writes "Three Amazon inventors set out to correct what they felt was a real problem: that 'out-of-print or rare books ... typically do not include advertisements ... the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern marketing.' Their solution is spelled out in newly-disclosed Amazon patent applications for On-Demand Generating E-Book Content with Advertising and Incorporating Advertising in On-Demand Generated Content. From the patent apps, here's what the future of reading may look like: 'For instance, if a restaurant is described on page 12, [then the advertising page], either on page 11 or page 13, may include advertisements about restaurants, wine, food, etc., which are related to restaurants and dining.' So, what would a delightfully-tacky-yet-unrefined Hooters ad do for your Hemingway experience?"

Comment Why should they? (Score 1) 337

by KenMcM on Sunday June 28, 2009 @08:00AM (#28502733) Attached to: Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation?

It's a great way to stay in shape.

Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? 337

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 28, 2009 @06:38AM from the i'm-looking-at-you-eve dept.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is running an opinion piece which asks why the majority of MMOs force users to spend a fair portion of their time traveling around a virtual world. At what point does moving from one location to another become a chore? From the article: "I love big, explorable worlds. They're by far one of my most favourite things about games. Running off in a direction without any idea what I might encounter is a rare pleasure, and one far more likely to result in an exciting discovery in a game's world than the real one. ... Not knowing what's coming up is huge and exciting, and I'd not want to take it away from gaming, not ever. But you know what? Once I've been there, that moment's gone. I've discovered it already. I did the exploring. I don't need to spend half an hour of my time that I've allocated for playing games trudging at whatever stupidly slow speed a game's decided to impose upon me. There is no good reason, whatsoever, to not just let me be there."

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