Comment We've already had this discussion years ago (Score 1) 565
https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
If anything, I'm surprised the email medium is still so relevant for anything not serious.
Comment What happens when they re-enable it? (Score 2) 51
Comment Is this news going to bring them more business (Score 1) 164
Comment Re: The law of unintended consequences... (Score 2) 141
Maybe not explicitly, but I think there is an implicit requirement and also a tradition/convention of including your email address in open source software. After all, the author has to be contacted about changes.
cURL is MIT licensed which requires the copyright notice to be shown.
(actually it's the only requirement, much more permissive than the GPL)
Comment Re:For what, the last 20 years? (Score 1) 212
The government may be acting illegally, but who's going to sue them?
The EC could fine their country.
Comment Is it still 32-bit only? (Score 1) 211
Comment Re: HIV articles (Score 2) 107
Yes. That shit does happen. A lot. About one in 10 successful lab tests works in animals and of those, about one in 10 will actually work in humans. Think it's not worth publishing of something works in mice?
On the other hand, how does one find out about treatments that work on humans but not on mice?
Comment Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score 1) 225
Make him look gay and you'll have a chance.
Comment This will only protect against lawsuits (Score 1) 173
Of course it won't do anything about ELINT.
Comment Re:termination (Score 1) 103
So what will happen to Thawte in response?
I think that depends on what government had asked them to generate the fake cert for MITM purposes.