Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Kumara Republic,
There's a more subtle and insidious trick though than just hiring trolls and hackers. It was used by the CIA with Encounter magazine in the 50s - you just find a publication/blog/politician that broadly supports your approach and feed them money. They need not even know about it - it could be a semi-fake coffee roaster or internet business that suddenly wants to buy lots of advertising space.
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Speaker: Confidential information: the…, in reply to Nigel McNie,
A court case around this would either result in sanity in interpretation, or a new bill under urgency
It's not that easy, and good law seldom results from measures passed under urgency.
Do we want to criminalise deep linking? Or scraping? Or bypassing a front-end to download an image? Or some other non-standard use of software to access information on a web server?
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Speaker: Confidential information: the…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
That would also imply that (provided I didn't actually steal any money) that I could hack my way into http://anz.co.nz/personal/ without fear of prosecution, because I've got implied authorisation to access the front page and so on.
(As Felix said, as well)
I'd agree, it's a tricky area - one view would say that ignoring robots.txt (the file that controls where web crawlers should go) is illegal access. Another would say that the computer has been configured by the the owner with a set of rules as to who can gain access - hence if the computer doesn't stop you, it isn't illegal.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to David Haywood,
I'm wondering about a complaint to the Law Society and/or her law firm (which seems to be pretty dodgy - Lichtenstein address) if not a criminal complaint?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
The footnotes are always broken. And if your finger slips onto a footnote, you get warped to the end of the chapter with no way back. And diagrams and tables (probably few in Hager's book) are unreadable.
I recommend the paper versions.
(and it's quite interesting that paper books have become sought after schwag given out at talks on esoteric tech stuff like graph databases and parallelism).
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Ha. I wonder who posted this a few years back when the story of Slater / Key / Warren Tuckers little OIA game first came out:
I’ve just listened to Goff on Morning Report, and he really needs to STFU. Dude, you’ve called Malcolm Tucker [sic] a liar no matter how cute you try to be about it, and trying to make Cameron Slater the issue is just pathetic.
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From Kim Dotcom:
For the record: I haven't hacked Whaleoil. I have nothing to do with Hager's book. There will be legal action against Slater & co
Well yes. Accusing someone of hacking (a criminal offence) is libellous unless demonstrably true. It's likely Slater will have to front up in court and produce any evidence he might have.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
I suspect that producing and loading an eBook ahead of time would have been to risky as to leaks.
Also, it's easier to suppress in some ways. Did you know Amazon can recall eBooks from anyone's device? Not sure if Wheelers can.
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Bingo.
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Gotta say though, my money would be on National Party machinations going a bit wrong. Key wants to keep an eye on the Collins faction, so he gets his mates down on Pipitea St to grab Slater's emails. Then someone gets to see them who's not in alignment with Slater at all, who gives the details to a friendly hacker, who then passes them on to Hager. Something like that.
