, very graciously, to Dave Winer in his weblog. “Hey, Dave, peace. Of course I don’t mean that you’ve, literally, done nothing. Obviously and of course, you’ve done great things for the movement. Nor when I criticized the copyright system was I saying anything about you. (Obviously lots of people use copyright to spread knowledge, rather than hide it. Copyleft is still copyright. And I am, as my writing should make clear, pro-copyright.)”
Archives for 2002
People are funny
. In a post today, Dave Winer wrote, in Scripting News, “I am open to supporting and working with Lessig, but we need clarification and possibly a discussion with the professor on his position re copyrights for software.” But yesterday he was trashing the guy: “To Lessig, who says we’re doing nothing, up yours.” Hardly sounds like someone who is open to working with the guy, does it? With friends like these, neither Dave nor Lessig needs many enemies. Because at base, these guys are pretty much on the same side.
Edward Felten
has recounted a bad experience with SpamCop in his new weblog, Freedom To Tinker. Interesting story about the excesses among the erstwhile “good guys” in the fight against spam. [via boingboing]
PGP Home
PGP Home. ‘Nuff said? Maybe not. There’s a new company in town, and it has bought Pretty Good Privacy from NAI. So it seems that PGP itself remains a viable encryption system – though frankly, that was more or less true independent of this announcement via the GPG initiative among others.
Matt Haughey
has written a nice up-to-the-moment summary of wireless local network security issues. The basic conclusion: there are security issues all over the pace, but there is no simple way to give yourself a truly secure net at this time.
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