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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
Japanese govt threats silence security researcher. Cory Doctorow:
A security expert who audited the Japanese National ID Card system and found it to be terribly designed and implemented was prevented from presenting his findings at a technology conference after the Japanese government intervened and threatened the conference organizers.
The Japanese government gave me two options.
1) Do not talk
2) Drastically change your slides to say what they want me to.
When I offered to not use slides at all and give my own opinion they told me that I would not be permitted to speak AT ALL. It is obvious to me that they did not have an issue with my slides or presentation. They were afraid that I would draw attention to problems in JUKI net. Soumushou thinks that they can hide from the issues. They think that if they keep people from speaking about the issues, it will go away. I thought I would be immune from such Japanese government pressures however I underestimated Soumushou's ability to manipulate those around me.
Link
(Thanks, Gohsuke!)
[Boing Boing]
11:56:13 AM 
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RIP SCO?. Mother of mercy, could this be the end of SCO?
The company's legal claims of ownership to Linux rest on who owns the copyrights to Unix. SCO claims it owns the copyrights, but Novell (which is Linux-friendly) claims it's the owner. Now, there may be new evidence out there indicating Novell's right, and game-over for SCO. Read. [Wagner's Weblog]
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