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15 May 2020
Back in 2017, Enigma Software sued competitor Malwarebytes claiming that Malwarebytes flagged
Enigma's software as "Potentially Unwanted Programs" for anticomptitive reasons. (I gather
Malwarebytes had good reasons to flag it but they're not relevant here.) The district court
dismissed the suit on section 230 grounds that Malwarebytes found the Enigma software
"otherwise objectionable" and the law gave Malwarebytes immunity from being sued.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/mbappeal.html
10 May 2020
In a widely reported decision last week, a court in Melbourne, Australia
held that Google defamed someone merely for including in its index
three web pages it did not create, including an article from a major
newspaper and a Wikipedia article.
The plaintiff, George Defteros, is a lawyer who defended gangsters in 2004, and was
arrested for murder of one of them. The charges were dropped in 2005.
In recent years he has had an uncontroversial legal career.
This case is
somewhat similar to right to be forgotten cases in Europe.
According to the
100
page decision,
Defteros sued Google in 2016 about four links, one to a 2004 opinion piece
about the arrest in the Age, a Melbourne newspaper, the second to another
Age article linked from the first but not directly from Google,
the third to a vulgar private
site with some comments about him, and the fourth to a Wikipedia article
about the Melbourne gang wars which had a footnote that linked
to the first Age article.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/ausdef.html
11 Mar 2020
A recent piece in The Markup called
Swinging the Vote?
attempts to figure out how Google decides where to deliver political e-mail.
They were startled to discover that only a small fraction of it was delivered
into the main inbox, and a fair amount was classed as spam.
They shouldn't have been.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/notspecial.html
24 Oct 2019
In the always interesting Lawfare blog, former FBI counsel Jim
Baker in a piece
called Rethinking
Encryption reiterates his take on the encrpytion debates. There's a certain
amount that makes me want to bang my head against the wall, e.g.
After working on the going dark problem for years, I'm confident
that this problem can be addressed from a technical perspective. In
most cases, it's just software, and software can be rewritten.
But it's worth reading to remind us of what the other side is
thinking, even with a lot of motivated reasoning that makes him
conclude that Congress can pass some laws and the going dark
problem will be solved.
A reader who is relatively new to this fight asked me is there's a short
and accessible explanation of why crypto back doors can't work.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/noback.html
25 Sep 2019
Earlier this year I gave a talk as a UASG Ambassador
at the eco talk at the CSA summit in Cologne.
We did a video interview which they finally finished editing
and put on their web site here.
eco have a little more info their web site at
https://www.dotmagazine.online/issues/digital-identities/ipv6/EAI.
The camera angle is a little odd but other than that I think it
came out well.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/uainterview.html
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