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art22gg
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USA to legalize root-kits,spyware???

From a blog article by Emsisoft...now this should prove to be very interesting if it ever comes to pass...

Link...»blog.emsisoft.com/2013/0 ··· -piracy/

beck
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"USA to legalize root-kits,spyware???"

sigh. "they" probably will think this is great. You can't fix stupid.

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said by beck:

You can't fix stupid.

You can. It's just not legal to do so

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said by StuartMW:

said by beck:

You can't fix stupid.

You can. It's just not legal to do so

That's still not fixing it, that's just stopping it. :-D

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US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates!
»boingboing.net/2013/05/2 ··· o-c.html
»twitter.com/e_kaspersky/ ··· 04547584

»twitter.com/justinvincen ··· 89636099
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said by siljaline:

US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates!
»boingboing.net/2013/05/2 ··· o-c.html
»twitter.com/e_kaspersky/ ··· 04547584


»twitter.com/justinvincen ··· 89636099

SONY never gives up.

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That would be a fair statement.
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“Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property” released their 84-page report...

The report proposes to use malware to figure out whether or not you are pirating intellectual property and in case you do, lock your computer and take all your files hostage...


What else could come to a criminal mind other than act like a criminal...
Those people are sick

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said by OZO:

“Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property” released their 84-page report...

The report proposes to use malware to figure out whether or not you are pirating intellectual property and in case you do, lock your computer and take all your files hostage...


What else could come to a criminal mind other than act like a criminal...
Those people are sick

Sick? Perhaps... but IMO they're just exercising the all-too-common human trait of using power of whatever kind to force an outcome favorable to themselves - and governmental power is ultimate power. Which is why our government was put in strong chains at its founding. Unfortunately, the chains are beginning to snap... and if this outrage ever sees the light of law, one more very big link will have been broken.

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As I noted in an email to a friend:

Absolutely crazy! It's truly hard to believe that anyone could logically find this to be logical! Unfortunately, once computers became a public tool for anyone and everyone, stealing copyrighted material, songs and everything else, was open for those who would take. Technology...don't you just love it. It opened an entire new industry, a need for technology to stop the technology. Those that would steal will steal any way they are able and putting something on all computers to catch those that will steal would merely open just another Pandora's box and allow a new problem to become the norm. The US entertainment industry ought to understand that by now, although I don't blame them for trying to think of something so that they could maintain their copyrighted material. They all lost their privacy and security when we did.
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I guess no-one else glanced at the report yet, since the report is mostly about theft of corporate IP sponsored by foreign corporations of foreign governments.

It's also (apparently: I just skimmed) pretty cautious about proposing legal changes permitting cyberattacks, since it recognizes the risks, though it doesn't rule them out of bounds for consideration.

The paragraph quoted by Emsisoft says what can be done legally today, but I think they misunderstand it. What I take it to mean is, if you steal file X and open file X, then file X can legally fuck you over. This is not the "Sony rootkit" scenario.

More when I've read the damn thing; 100 pages online is more than I care to do. I need paper.

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Daves on the money .....try viewing yesterdays 4 corners report on our govs reasoning on this new statergy.
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What's a "4 corners report"? Link, please? (googling is giving me nothing plausible-looking)

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said by dave:

I guess no-one else glanced at the report yet, since the report is mostly about theft of corporate IP sponsored by foreign corporations of foreign governments.

It's also (apparently: I just skimmed) pretty cautious about proposing legal changes permitting cyberattacks, since it recognizes the risks, though it doesn't rule them out of bounds for consideration.

The paragraph quoted by Emsisoft says what can be done legally today, but I think they misunderstand it. What I take it to mean is, if you steal file X and open file X, then file X can legally fuck you over. This is not the "Sony rootkit" scenario.

More when I've read the damn thing; 100 pages online is more than I care to do. I need paper.

The pdf document is originally 84 pages long ( Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property ), and the relevant paragraphs to this thread are contained within pages 81 and 82.

The document focuses mainly on penetrations of US networks and digital theft of "intellectual property".

The problem with some of these recommendations is that such things often take on a life of their own, ending up being morphed, expanded, and then embodied in legislation justified by the crisis-nature of the described problem and passed by a Congress that all-too-often tends to "pass a bill before they read it".

While the described crisis may be very real, the civil-liberty and due-process ramifications of some of the suggestions may be truly dangerous as well, particularly if they get targeted by overly broad implementations and justifications of suggested countermeasures. A lot of freedom can be obliterated by the argument that one has to act immediately without waiting for the likes of legal procedures (eg: acting proactively at "network speed").

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said by StuartMW:

said by beck:

You can't fix stupid.

You can. It's just not legal to do so

It's because there is no money in for them that way.

Sheesh, no one has figured this out yet?
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It's 100 pages according to Adobe Reader

(There's covers, front matter, back matter, etc.)

The rest of your comments, I don't disagree with, but nevertheless, I think we should discuss it from an informed viewpoint, and not sensational headlines.

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said by dave:

What's a "4 corners report"? Link, please? (googling is giving me nothing plausible-looking)

»www.abc.net.au/4corners/ ··· 6576.htm
Transcript of article link can be found on this page.
Starts to outline problems faced then moves to solutions.
The link to video is region based...sorry.
Limited by what I can do on my phone at present.
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Um, so what if I use Linux and the root kit can't be installed on it?

Or it can be installed, but it will show me an elevated prompt, raising red flags?

So this is only to catch the dumb "crooks" then? Wow, so much effort and so much freedom lost for so little gain.

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The option to weaponizing software to view trojanized data on private material housed either in business networks or government data banks is the desired goal from what i've read. DRM type spins offs for freely available (not private but shared) files is the tangent Emisoft seems to have taken from this.
Have i got this right?
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Um, so what if I use Linux and the root kit can't be installed on it?
So this is only to catch the dumb "crooks" then? Wow, so much effort and so much freedom lost for so little gain.

More than likely they have allowed themselves a clause to actively go after any connection that is logged into a public exclusion zone system allowing them to protect their infrastructure and content. Their systems will of course be protected on more than one level. Hardware destruction is still an option here.

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said by ashrc4:

The option to weaponizing software to view trojanized data on private material housed either in business networks or government data banks is the desired goal from what i've read. DRM type spins offs for freely available (not private but shared) files is the tangent Emisoft seems to have taken from this.
Have i got this right?

I think so, at least essentially. But, just as with use of drones over the past 20 years or so, there would be a steady movement of the technology from the military/national-security/critical-corporate "battlefield" into the domestic scene. This is particularly true once one sets up the precedent that a private entity has some legal basis for going into somebody else's computer and uncooperatively messing with it or the files on it, and it will be only a matter of time before that 'basis' is expanded and redefined to include all manner of material. A look at the brief history of corporate misbehavior outlined in the Emsisoft article when such things didn't have any legal sanction should send a chilling message of where this all will be headed once such things become 'legally' acceptable in whatever arena.

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said by Blackbird:

This is particularly true once one sets up the precedent that a private entity has some legal basis for going into somebody else's computer and uncooperatively messing with it or the files on it......

By including private contractors and business associated with government contracts.

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It's now in the news on this site.

»Hollywood Wants Right to Use Malware Against Pirates [79] comments

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Canada too!

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