Domestic Surveillance: FBI and Three Others Like This
I assumed this was already happening, but I guess they are trying to get public approval doe non-stop monitoring.
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
via FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites – now | Security & Privacy – CNET News.
DVR Powered by WebKit
ARRIS Group, Inc. has released their Moxi 2.0 DVR software and it’s got a WebKit build powering its interface. With browsers showing up in hardware appliances we’re fast-approaching the day when the term “web developer” may become an anachronism, supplanted as the web stack becomes the world’s unified user interface standard.
Moxi software release 2.0 contains an advanced HTML5 WebKit-based browser as well as support for MSO customizable application storefronts and downloadable applications.
The DVR software sounds pretty cool. It is designed to participate in a REST architecture on your LAN, interfacing with the iPad remote control app via API over HTTP.
The Moxi Web Services API provides a full featured and RESTful command and control-interface enabling authorized partners to implement functions…
via Arris reveals Moxi DVR release 2.0 with web browser, apps and iPad remote – Engadget.
Fadebook? Hilarious.
I would have never seen this coming. I’d previously believed Facebook would not be a good long-term hold, but I had no idea the IPO could come unraveled to such a degree. It’s quite a confidence-shaker, don’t you think?
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has gone from hero to zero as the stockmarket flotation of the decade flounders amid lawsuits and accusations of greed, hype and deception.
via Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sees stock tumble amid IPO lawsuits | Technology | The Guardian.
The War on Information
In America, we’ve seen the poor attacked following the War on Poverty; we’ve seen children jailed in the War on Drugs; and the War on Terror has ripped from us of our rights as American citizens.
Now it looks like we may be headed for a War on Information. America may one day use piracy as a casus belli some day. China should pay heed.
My brother-in-law just graduated from Stanford Law School. He recently wrote this nifty little piece on how to prosecute WikiLeaks. He believes that the US Department of Justice could prosecute WikiLeaks supporters using the same ineffectual tactics that were used to target Kim Dotcom. This compelling legal theory was just published in the Stanford Journal of International Law.
Protecting State Secrets as Intellectual Property: A Strategy for Prosecuting WikiLeaks
Criminal statutes generally deployed against those who leak classified government documents — such as the Espionage Act of 1917 — are ill-equipped to go after third-party international distribution organizations like WikiLeaks.
I have to say, though, that I’m a little saddened to have a family member — especially such an intelligent one — stray so far from the herd. I can’t blame him – royalties are sacred to some. However, the plain truth is that law can no longer stay current with the advance of technology.
Some people don’t want to accept the fact that our legislative process is too slow to keep pace – those individuals simply need to realize the truth.
There are others, however, who have realized the futility of this pursuit, and yet still support this deprecated endeavor. It is those individuals who are interested simply in transferring power away from the people and toward the state.
QuantumTom 