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Guy Who Helped Mod Cable Modems Arrested By The FBI
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| What a world we live in: if you tinker too
| much with the electronic equipment you buy,
| you might get charged with a crime. That
| seems to be what happened to a guy in Oregon
| who helps mod cable modems. Now, clearly,
| some people can and do use modded cable
| modems to access cable service that they
| haven't paid for, but there are plenty of
| legitimate reasons to hack your own hardware
| or to buy modded hardware.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091102/2251476775.shtml
Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With âAiding Computer Intrusionâ
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| An Oregon hardware hacker and author has
| been hit with federal criminal charges
| arising from his longstanding business of
| selling unlocked cable modems that can be
| used to steal extra speed from a broadband
| provider, or obtain free service.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/derengel/
More abuses:
Kentucky in no state to seize domain name
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| Says the IPKat, this case does something to
| clarify the questions which many have asked
| concerning the fate of domain names the use
| of which is lawful in some jurisdictions but
| not in others. It seems that the fate of a
| domain name -- which may be registered as or
| incorporate a trade mark -- will depend on,
| among other things, the status of the
| foreign government and the juridical nature
| of its penal system. Says Merpel, I wonder
| how many people misread, as I did,
| fulltiltpoker.com as futilitypoker.com.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/10/kentucky-in-no-state-to-seize-domain.html
Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules
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| No matter how much of our personal lives
| exist in e-mail services such as Gmail, a
| U.S. District Court judge says if the
| government takes a look at your e-mail.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/181067/feds_can_search_your_email_without_notice_judge_rules.html
Recent:
EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned
| Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its
| baseless legal threats against calculator
| hobbyists who blogged about potential
| modifications to the company's programmable
| graphing calculators.
|
| TI's calculators perform a "signature check"
| that allows only approved operating systems to
| be loaded onto the hardware. But researchers
| were able to reverse-engineer signing keys,
| allowing tinkers to install custom operating
| systems and unlock new functionality in the
| calculators' hardware. In response to this
| discovery, TI unleashed a torrent of demand
| letters claiming that the anti-circumvention
| provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
| Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down
| commentary about and links to the keys. EFF
| represents three men who received such letters.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13
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