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Litigation Release No. 21361 / January 6, 2010

Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 3094 / January 6, 2010

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Daniel H. Bayly, et al., Civil Action No. H-03-0946 (S.D. Tex.)

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) announced today that, on December 31, 2009, the U.S. District Court in Houston entered a final judgment in the Commission’s civil action against Daniel H. Bayly (“Bayly”), former global head of investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (“Merrill Lynch”).

On March 17, 2003, the Commission charged Bayly and three other former executives of Merrill Lynch with aiding and abetting Enron Corp.’s earnings manipulation. That action remains stayed against Bayly’s co-defendants pending resolution of a parallel criminal prosecution. On March 17, 2003, the Commission also sued and simultaneously settled all of its Enron aiding-and-abetting charges against Merrill Lynch, which was enjoined from violating the federal securities laws and paid $80 million in financial sanctions for distribution to injured investors through the Commission’s Enron Fair Fund.

Without admitting or denying the allegations in the Commission’s complaint, Bayly has now been permanently enjoined from violating the antifraud provisions, as well as from aiding and abetting violations of the periodic reporting, books-and-records, and internal controls provisions; barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years; and ordered to pay $300,001 in disgorgement and civil money penalties for deposit into the Commission’s Enron Fair Fund.

As alleged in the Commission’s complaint, Bayly substantially assisted Enron’s sham sale of an interest in certain Nigerian barges during late 1999. Although the interest in these barges purportedly passed to a special purpose entity in which Merrill Lynch invested equity capital, Bayly had received an oral commitment from Enron’s then-Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Fastow, that Merrill Lynch would be repaid within six months at a specified rate of return. In substance, this side agreement transformed what was supposed to be an equity investment into a bridge loan with a fixed interest rate. The complaint alleged that Bayly helped enable this sham “sale” on Enron’s interest in the Nigerian barges so as to maintain favorable relations with Enron. By participating in the arrangement — which allowed Enron fraudulently to record $28 million in revenue and $12 million in pre-tax income — Bayly aided and abetted Enron’s violations of the federal securities laws.

For more information, see Litigation Release No. 18038 (March 17, 2003).

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after already tweaked my code a lot to get this working I noticed a new behavior in this issue with 4.1. I want to achieve a Tree, where the root of the TreeStore is of the model "MAP". All subsequent children nodes should be of the type "LAYER". Of course I have configured the TreeStore with one model, the model "MAP" and the MAP/LAYER models are associated (hasMany/belongsTo)

When I want to load new maps, I set a new RootNode (JSON object). NOW COMES THE PROBLEM: All the nested data is interpreted as MAP models. I have no clue how I could set a modell/class type on my children node so they become LAYERs. This was the behavior in Ext 4.0 and party in 4.1...
My solution was a decorate function, copying my LAYER properties & methods to each child node (similar to the NodeInterface decoration)

What changed in 4.1 is that when I later dynamically add a new node (for instance by dragging a LAYER model on the tree), the new node SUDDENLY KEEPS its model type (in most cases)

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I'm writing my first sencha touch app.
I'm having trouble with the autopaging of a list in a Sencha touch app using Sencha Architect.

I have 80 records in my database and set the pagesize to 20. I load the first 20 fine, the next 20 also, but then when I scroll down my app doesn't send a request to my api for the next 20 records.

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Future Of Google's Pay Per Action Model Uncertain

Jun 17, 2008 • 7:50 am | comments (3) by twitter Google+ | Filed Under Google AdWords

Google launched their Pay Per Action ads a little over a year ago. Since then they have tried expanding it and marketing it to publishers and advertisers. We have extensive coverage of the Google Pay Per Action product at this site, if you want to check the history on it.

Today, I noticed a Google Groups thread that might imply that Google is having second thoughts of the product.

AdWordsPro Sarah, an official Google representative, responded to a question about the program:

Unfortunately, because the Pay Per Action pricing model is in beta, it is invitation only. At this time, invitations are no longer being extended while the product team figures out what direction the model will take in the future.

From this we learn:

(1) Google stopped sending out invitations for PPA. (2) Google is not sure what direction they want to take the PPA product in the future.

Was Google's Pay Per Action model a failure? Or was marketing it a failure?

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GeoGuessr: Addictive Google Maps Guessing Game

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Spotted via Hacker News a site named geoguessr is an addictive guessing game that has you look at Google Street View imagery and you click on the Google Map to say where that image was taken from.

For example, if you see a street view image of Time Square, if you click on New York City, you will guess right. Well, there is never any wrong guesses.

You are scrolled based on how far away you click from the actual location of that street view image. The closer you click to that location, the more points you score.

Here is an example of what the scores look like:

You can see other people's scores at Hacker News and as Matt Cutts commented there, "Warning: it's pretty addictive." Indeed.

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Independence Day USA: Google's Logo, Bing's Home Page & Yahoo Got Nothing

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Today is Independence Day in the United States Of America, the 238th birthday of USA. To celebrate, Google, Bing,, Dogpile and others have special logos or themes on their home page. But surprisingly, Yahoo did not animated their logo - not yet - at least.

Google's logo is a video but also an animated GIF. It first loads an animated GIF and when you click on it, it loads a video powered by YouTube.

Here is the animated GIF:

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Bing's home page:

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Search Engine Roundtable:

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For the logos from the past, check out the past year logos for 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.

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Silver Birch, Blood Moon
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Avon Books, 384 pages

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Silver Birch, Blood Moon
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Ellen Datlow was the fiction editor of OMNI from 1981 until it folded earlier this year. She now works as the fiction editor of SCIFI.COM. Her well-deserved reputation as an editor for both this series and for the Fairy Tale Anthologies series (both with Terri Windling) has garnered her numerous awards.

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Terri Windling is a five-time World Fantasy Award winner, a consulting fantasy editor at Tor, the author of The Wood Wife (winner of the Mythopoeic Award) and other fiction, and writes a popular folklore column for Realms of Fantasy magazine.

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A review by Margo MacDonald and Katharine Mills

Silver Birch, Blood Moon is the 5th in a series of fairy tales which have been retold for adults, edited by Datlow and Windling. The series began with Snow White, Blood Red several years ago and has been contributed to by authors both well-known and obscure. The final book in the series, titled Black Heart, Ivory Bones, has been turned in and will appear in 2000.

SF Site reviewers Margo MacDonald and Katharine Mills have come together to discuss the content of this book to see how it holds up against the rest of the series.

Margo: The first thing I've got to say about this book, and I just can't hold back, is how disappointed I am that it was not released in hardcover but went straight into trade paperback. I bought the first 4 books in hardcover and it really bothers me that I won't be able to complete my collection with the 5th book in the same format!

Katharine: Not that I generally can afford hardcovers (except used ones) but the trade paperback format is, in my opinion, a completely silly idea. Why, all ye publishers? It costs nearly as much as a hardcover, wrecks like a paperback, and doesn't even fit nicely in your totebag.

Margo: Okay, so now that we've got that pet peeve out of our systems, I have to say that overall I liked this particular collection of short stories. I did think, though, that one of the 3 takes on the "Frog Prince" story would have been enough. Maybe it's just because I never really liked that fairy tale, but I felt overwhelmed by frogs. Of the 3, however, I liked "The Frog Chauffeur" by Garry Kilworth the best. It was amusing and bittersweet and definitely a fresh look at this old idea. I could have done without "Kiss, Kiss" by Tanith Lee and "Toad" by Patricia A. McKillip.

Katharine: I'll second that. Particularly since "Kiss Kiss" is so much inferior to Lee's earlier variation on the tale, "The Princess and Her Future," found in her brilliant collection Red as Blood. And I really am tired of reading about what insensitive bastards men are. As for "Toad," I'm particularly disappointed since McKillip is usually one of my very favourite writers, but this piece reads more like notes for a tale than the tale itself.

And the flood of creeping beasts doesn't end with Frog Prince themes either. There's "Skin So Green and Fine," in which Wendy Wheeler gives "Beauty and the Beast" a Voudon twist, with a snake-priest of Djamballah-Wedo as the Beast. This one, like "Kiss Kiss," features another wearisomely innocent heroine, whose growing-up process includes learning to like wearing tight clothes and high heels. This Latina lady, however, unlike Lee's heroine, grows to love her role as good wife. It's an interesting reflection of cultures, but not one I find sympathetic. I was much more favourably impressed with the blunt-spoken lady of "Toad-Rich," Michael Cadnum's slyly funny variant on "The Fairy Gifts".

Margo: Quite right and a very different take on the tale than Nalo Hopkinson's "Precious" which takes the story of the sisters who are blessed/cursed with uttering jewels and toads every time they open their mouths and moves it into a modern setting. In Hopkinson's hands the story becomes a disturbing look at spousal abuse.

Another somewhat disturbing tale in this collection is "Ivory Bones" by Susan Wade. This is the story of "Thumbelina" told in a "My Last Duchess" vein where the narrator is speaking to an unknown listener and the idea of horror slowly creeps in as it dawns upon the reader just what the narrator has done to his 'beloved'.

Katharine: Oh, right, thank you: "My Last Duchess." I couldn't think what it was this story reminded me of. My education is wasted on me. "Ivory Bones" was one of my favourites, sensuously creepy.

Margo: But to dig ourselves out of the depths of the dark and disturbing for a while, I must say that one of my favourite stories in this collection is "The Dybbuk in the Bottle" by Russell William Asplund. Asplund takes the genie in a bottle idea and gives it a twist by changing the genie into a dybbuk (a demon out of Jewish folklore) who is found by a wistful and unsuccessful farmer. The attempts of the farmer and dybbuk to outwit each other were lotsa fun and the whole style of the tale refreshingly entertaining.

Katharine: It's very much in the humorous tradition of Jewish folklore, and the denouement is an hilarious example of just deserts. One of my favourites was "The Vanishing Virgin." This is based on an obscure Andersen tale called "The Flea and the Professor" and is a very silly story of an inept and selfish conjuror, and his 'lovely assistant' Ms Molly who finds that a magical desk once belonging to Houdini holds much more than illusion in its carved oaken depths. But really, any story featuring "a decrepit rabbit called Pooper who had to be dragged by brute force from the ratty high hat that had become its only home," wins points from me.

Margo: No doubt about it, the last two stories we've mentioned are the most humourous of the lot. Though perhaps we could add Neil Gaiman's poem "Locks" (about reading "Goldilocks" to his daughter) to the humour category for making me giggle. It's a sweet confession of the vulnerability of fatherhood, which comes a little unexpectedly from Gaiman. There is one other poem in the collection, "Carabosse" by Delia Sherman, but I'm afraid it was quite forgettable. Without looking now, Kat, quick, tell us what it was about...

Katharine: Got me -- I confess that usually when reading these collections I skim over the poetry, although I did read the Gaiman piece, just for the sake of my admiration for "The Sandman."

Margo: The satirical humour award would have to go to Nancy Kress for her wittily clever take on "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Clad in Gossamer." There's just something darkly funny about the image of a man walking his brother's bride-to-be down the aisle, while he's completely naked -- with a huge erect penis. Or maybe it's just me. (Hope I didn't give away the ending there.)

Not so successful was "Arabian Phoenix" by India Edghill. I thought the characters were great, but this hopeful alternative ending of Scheherazade's story fell somewhat flat. A true fantasy, but a little too improbable to my somewhat cynical outlook.

Katharine: You know, I liked "Arabian Phoenix." Edghill's rationale for the disappearance of the brides certainly makes more sense than the king's motivation in the original story. However, I must agree that the sugar-coated Harlequin promise of an ultra-happy ending for the story's heroine made me wince a little. I'd give another 'mixed blessings' prize to Karawynn Long's "The Shell Box," which is mostly based on old tales of the Selkie Wife. Long has a beautiful writing voice, and this story of different kinds of love and of the magic of the sea has a hypnotic beauty about it -- but I'd say it's about twice as long as it needs to be. Plus, it features yet another abusive rotter of a man. (Is it all those evil stepmothers, do you suppose?)

Maybe that's why I liked Anne Bishop's "The Wild Heart" so much. In this, the first of the Sleeping Beauty transmogrifications in the book, the sleeping princess is not rescued by a prince, nor is she a mere unconscious victim. Here, there's a ring of truth, plus a happiness that, for once, comes out of the heroine's own heart. Bishop has captured the authentic fairy tale tone, that matter-of-fact, seemingly arbitrary, clarity.

Margo: The flip-side of the Sleeping Beauty story is told by Pat York in "You Wandered Off Like A Foolish Child To Break Your Heart and Mine" (whew!-- the title's almost longer than the story!). Based on the suggestion that the men who failed to save the sleeping girl ended up dying slow, painful deaths on the thorns growing around the castle, this story takes a bitter look at what became of the would-be heroes and their families. It's heart-rending, poignant -- and brutal.

Another tale told from the flip-side is "The Sea Hag" by Melissa Lee Shaw. Here the story of "The Little Mermaid" is narrated by the sea-witch (the one who gives the mermaid a potion which allows her to sprout legs). The author claims that her version of the story is written to counteract the female stereotypes perpetuated by Walt Disney. Guess she still buys in to the Disney ideology that "every story must have a happy ending" though. But that's okay, she tells it well so I'm willing to go for the kinder, gentler, hard-done-by sea-witch idea. But again, there's that "men are evil bastards" theme we keep noticing. Do you think these authors may be using fairy tale writing in lieu of psychotherapy? Or possibly they think their readers will? I think you could be on to something there, Kat, with the idea that evil-bastard-men are replacing the evil-step-mothers...

Katharine: Or maybe one breeds the other. If you want a story without a happy ending, how about Caitlin R. Kiernan's "Glass Coffin?" In this dark, post-industrial "Snow White," the dwarves are crippled street kids, and the princess herself is Salmagundi, a tragic, broke heiress. No evil stepmother here, only Salmagundi's own impulse to self-destruction, and a true love who comes too late to ever kiss her awake. This is one haunting, terrible, terrific story, with a hard and lonely bite.

And then there is Patricia Briggs' "The Price." This is "Rumpelstiltskin," and yes, once again, it features an evil bastard. (He's the prince, too -- funny how that happens.) Despite that, Briggs takes a thought-provoking look at several ideas: that magic must be paid for, no matter what one's motives; different shapes of love; different standards of value. There is a good queen who is loyal to a bad son, and an unexpected true love. The happy ending is a little bit of a cop-out, but still, a worthy effort on the whole.

Margo: There is a bit of the "Rumpelstiltskin" theme running through "Marsh-Magic" by Robin McKinley. The story features a kingdom where peace is maintained by a bargain struck between the king and a tribe of magical people dwelling in the marshes. The bargain means that as each successive king comes of age, the king's advisor chooses him a bride from amongst the marsh-dwellers. Generations go by and the bargain begins to seem like a bad one for the marsh people, so one of the chosen women decides to exact a subtle form of revenge on the king and his advisor. The story is really quite good, if a little long. There's a kind of darkness underneath the formal fairy tale style that leaves a ticklish feeling of discomfort, which remains even after the story has ended.

Katharine: Now I thought "Marsh Magic" was a LOT too long, with far, far too much exposition. McKinley gives us much more imaginary history, in my opinion, than one needs to make sense of the story. A little pruning would help this one a good deal; I had almost forgotten the point by the time I reached the end.

Margo: Speaking of endings, there is only one other story in this collection which we haven't yet mentioned. Looks like we've saved the strangest 'till last, cause there is no denying that "The Willful Child, the Black Dog, and the Beanstalk" by Melanie Tem is, well, a little odd. Tem has woven several fairy tale elements together and combined them with the understanding her career as a social worker has given her. The result is a striking tale which reads like one of those epic dreams you have where you're never really sure it isn't really happening, even after you wake up. I hope that makes sense -- do you know what I mean, Kat?

Katharine: It does, and I know exactly what you mean. It's full of arbitrary strange events, presented as commonplace, with a sense of barely-expressed horror.

Margo: Yes, exactly. A wonderfully haunting tale.

Katharine: So that's all, folks. It's a good collection, as in fact the whole lot have been. I wouldn't say it was my favourite of the series; I think that honour still goes to Black Thorn, White Rose. The stories in this one seem a little more uneven to me, and it's funny that some of my least favourite ones are by established authors. And, incidentally, let me say how nice it is to see so many fresh names in this collection; Windling and Datlow's support of up-and-coming authors has always been exemplary in the field.

Margo: I'd have to agree that it is not the strongest collection in the series, but there is more than enough good stuff in it to make it a worthwhile read. Now, if only it had been released in hardcover...

Copyright © 1999 by Margo MacDonald and Katharine Mills

Margo has always been drawn toward fantasy and, at the age of 5, decided to fill her life with it by pursuing a career as a professional actress. Aside from theatre (and her husband), Margo's passion has been for books. Her interests are diverse and eclectic, but the bulk fall within the realm of speculative fiction. She tells us that her backlog has reached 200 books and she's ready to win the lottery and retire.

Katharine Mills learned to read when she was three, and has never looked back. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she is legally blind without her spectacles.

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After studying the British, French and German soldiers of World War I for more than ten years and writing nearly 400 pages on the topic, Sterling College Assistant Professor Chad Gaudet has earned his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University. The degree, however, which was made official in December and announced last week, only confirms the desire that made him pursue a doctorate in the first place: Dr. Chad Gaudet loves to learn.

“What I get to do is ideal,” Gaudet said. “When you teach, you learn things. I get paid to learn, and the more I learn, the less I know.” So, although his dissertation, titled “Baptisms of Fire: How Training, Equipment, and Ideas about the Nation Shaped the British, French, and German Soldiers’ Experiences of War in 1914,”was “good enough” to earn the degree, Gaudet plans to continue researching his topic. “I hope to one day turn this into a book,” he said, “or, at the very least, journal articles. I find it very interesting how the three countries’ different perceptions of nationalism influenced their soldiers. Germany’s view of war was that ‘the ends justify the means.’ It was very ethnically focused, while Great Britain’s view was far more influenced by the Enlightenment, not based on ethnicity, but on the value of humans as a whole. The French was a mix of the two.”

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Why ICANN Needs To Go

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Salon is running an interesting interview with John Gilmore where he talks about why ICANN is screwed up and why it needs to be seriously reformed (in the opposite direction, at least, of the reforms they've proposed). The most interesting part of the interview, though, is his history of Network Solutions. It's a story you might not have heard about how huge government contractor SAIC bought them for $3 million, pulled lots of strings, took the company public with shares that had virtually no voting rights, and then (when they realized the monopoly game was up) sold it to Verisign for $21 billion. Quite a story. The rest of the stuff about ICANN has been covered elsewhere, but it's worth reading about again. He talks about why he's helping to finance Karl Auerbach's lawsuit against ICANN. Auerbach, if you haven't been following the story, is on the board of ICANN (though, they wish he weren't) and simply requested access to the company's financial information (a completely legitimate request for a board member), and ICANN is refusing. I've read some of the claims from the ICANN's main lawyer-in-charge, Joe Sims, and I still can't understand how ICANN believes they serve the public any better by keeping everything they do completely secret. If someone can explain that to me, I'd appreciate it.

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    Jared, Jul 2nd, 2002 @ 7:44am

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    I haven't read the article yet but I'd like to offer some insight on SAIC as I have some first and second hand experience with the company. SAIC is not publically traded. It never will be. It is founded on the foundation of being an employee-owned outfit. It was founded in the '60s by a bunch of researchers from the National Lab system. Every employee from the CEO to the loser in the mail room owns shares. Employee benefits are relayed in terms of shares. If you win employee of the month, you get x shares etc. The shares are re-evaluated quarterly by a brokerage house and the employees recieve dividends in addition to their salaries. Also, if you ever leave the company, you have to sell your shares back to the company. If they took a company public, they probably did it to perform some kind of bookkeeping operation. Something like making public undocumented Federal property. (Gov. property rules are complex and I won't discuss them here--but everyone involved with Uncle Sam has to deal with it so you know what I mean.) I would find it hard to villify SAIC for "taking the money and running" given their...unique charter.

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    Jared, Jul 2nd, 2002 @ 7:46am

    You might be intrigued to know that SAIC owns Verisign also. So...they didn't make any money by doing that, they just moved it between subsidiaries. :-) Again, probably accounting cleanup.

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    Mike (profile), Jul 2nd, 2002 @ 9:45am

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    Most of this is explained in the article, but it doesn't say that SAIC retained a stake in Verisign... but that's nothing that can't be looked up. It does appear that following the sale SAIC became Verisign's largest shareholder (9%) stake, but I don't think it's fair to say they didn't "make any money". No matter what you do, turning $3 million into $21 billion gets you something (even if it's tied up in equity)... Besides, it appears that SAIC sold $4 billion worth of VeriSign shares in 2000... So, it's pretty clear they made out very nicely.

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Latest Techdirt Comments Easily digestible tech news.... Re: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:19:15 PDT Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:13:26 PDT Re: Re: Re: https Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:03:11 PDT they really only protect against casual sniffing
And it is the casual sniffing of governments that these certificates are primarily aimed at. If use of encrypt everything means that the Governments of the world cannot keep up with the decrypting of Internet traffic in real time, then most people's privacy improves. I do not ask that the system is perfect, just strong enough to force governments to target who they spy on.]]>
Use of Encryption Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:50:31 PDT Re: This is not new at all Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:46:20 PDT if they could produce a paper trail for the money
How does someone produce a paper trail for money tucked under the mattress over many years?]]>
Re: Copyrights Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:45:25 PDT those independents will either have to pay GM a lot of money for the rights to work on their vehicles or they will be driven out of business.

Mast likely both, which is on par with what the company really wants.]]>
Re: Re: Re: A better (tech) option Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:39:57 PDT This still doesn't provide a warrant canary: it just proves that the government has stepped in and has meddled with the organization's right to report.

Paradox warning! That's exactly what a canary is designed for.]]>
Re: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:35:59 PDT relevant precedent case law? Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:35:40 PDT
Warrant canaries seam like a speculatory concept at best to me, maybe there's something I haven't heard of yet though.]]> Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:34:20 PDT Re: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:33:17 PDT Re: Re: https Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:31:15 PDT
TLS has a number of roles to play in network communications:
1) encrypt data to protect it from sniffing in-transit
2) authenticate data to verify it came from whom you expect
3) sign data so you know you got only the data you were expecting

Now here's how it breaks:
1) man-in-the-middle servers that sign with an alternate certificate. This can be done on the client (SuperFish), at the network edge (many gateway prodcuts), or anywhere upstream that has access to a trusted certificate on the client.
2) Yeah, this is broken at a number of levels, relating to item 1 -- there are many entities out there that can fake or phish the sender identity. Web of Trust helps a bit here, but the traditional methods (whitelist/blacklist) tend to fail, as the blacklists are improperly implemented in most places. How do you trust authenticity when most major governments have access to root certs?
3) This is actually still pretty safe; TLS itself has withstood most cracking attempts, and as a result, you're likely to have received exactly what the sender sent. The only issue here is that you have no way to 100% verify that the sender was who you thought it was, unless you got the signing certificate directly from them via a separate channel, and know that nobody else has access to their root certificate.

Aside from all this, verts generally work by exclusivity; the fewer organizations who have certificates, the more secure they are. If you remove the barriers to entry so that anyone can get a certificate, then that means that while a cert may be valid, it becomes more difficult to figure out if the person who owns the certificate is trustworthy in the first place.

If certificates are free, than you can rest assured that some botnet is going to have all its nodes registering bogus certificates that it can rotate through, giving the CNs all sorts of names, from "Bankof America" to "Aqqle" to "Trusted Update Pty, LLC". Then you'll have tons of signed malware coming down an encrypted pipe with a "verified" host at the other end. And you'll have all your personal data going up another pipe, similarly encrypted.

This doesn't make certificates bad, but they're not the panacea that many would believe -- they really only protect against casual sniffing and verify the data being transmitted between two (rightly) trusted points.]]>
Some thoughts on GM/DRM Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:16:18 PDT
I worry this sort of thing is just the tip of the iceburg of what we're looking at in the future. Efective monopolies are too prevelent and powerful for bypass entitlements to contine to have the effect they have generally had so far; Consumers are too nieve and ignorant to correct the market, and laws/lawmakers are woefully inadaquite to keep up, let alone tame the pace of technology increasingly designed with the the sellers interests placed over that of the consumer.

TPM- when I read that acronym I think of "trusted platform modual", something that's relevent to the topic and worth knowing about if you don't. That 'TPM' hasn't yet come close to it's potential- it's the sort of hardware level DRM which should concern everyone. Having the 'right' to bypass DRM, is not the same thing as having the 'ability'.

The reason that alot of DRM has been so easily bypassed is that DRM makers aren't putting in much effort to safeguard it. So far there hasn't been much reason for them to, but that's slowly changing. There are many many unexploited digital 'toll boths' and other various consumer exploitations which can be implimented with DRM, and I see no reason to doubt they won't be thoughly explored in the future.]]>
Re: Re: A better (tech) option Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:10:37 PDT Re: because America Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:54:51 PDT A Dubious Tax, in Search of Dubious Revenue Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:46:01 PDT
In practice, it seems to be difficult to spend large sums of money on the internet. Markets are too efficient, and publicly disclosed prices reflect this. The market price for movies and music is going to be set by services like Amazon Prime. Television is artificially inflated because cable-providers resist selling internet access without television. As I see it, it is only a matter of time before the Venezuelans start broadcasting television from space (*), in sublime indifference to American copyrights. At that point, Netflix will probably go bankrupt like the various music services, unable to span the gap between the competing expectations of consumers and movie studios. The eventual tendency of the internet is to become free. Real money tends to involve much more inherently local goods and services such as food.

(*) Broadcasting satellites are becoming cheaper than even the most minimal kind of navy or air force, considered as a means of projecting "national presence."

Chicago's basic problem is that the vast majority of greater Chicago's population lives in the suburbs, or even in other states, and cannot be effectively taxed. Like every other big city, Chicago has vast tracts of derelict land, populated by street gangs. That isn't going to be addressed by an internet sales tax. Chicago's principal product is poverty, and that isn't something you can sell on the market.]]>
Re: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:35:03 PDT Shooting Chicago in the Foot Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:34:09 PDT Re: Democracy lost Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:32:55 PDT Re: https Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:30:15 PDT I am not sure about this, but this is worth studying.]]>


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Heather Akers-Healy, using Muckrock's FOIA service, recently obtained a document from the NSA (via a FOIA request) detailing its purchase of exploits from Vupen, a French security company specializing in sellable exploits. Unfortunately, the details in this "detailing" are incredibly sparse. Most of what might be interesting is redacted and a majority of the document is standard contractual clauses.

If there's anything of interest here (beyond the purchase of exploits), it's the fact that the transaction takes place on a nondescript form which can be used to handle a variety of products. Due to the standardized wording, it almost appears as though the NSA has the option to purchase exploits by the truckload -- and that said exploits can only be delivered during the normal receiving hours of 7:30 am - 2:30 pm.

That being said, the purchase of exploits is something the NSA has been pretty open about (comparatively). Vupen, or at least its founder and CEO Chaouki Bekrar (who refers to himself as the "Darth Vader of Cybersecurity"), seems rather open about the exploit market itself. As Muckrock points out, Bekrar suggested other FOIA request topics when confronted with this document.
Vupen's looking to open an office in Maryland, which would put it in the same neighborhood as several other government contractors -- and the NSA's headquarters. It certainly wouldn't hurt to be a short drive away from some well-funded government agencies. Bekrar also tweeted a link to story by the Washington Post that noted the NSA had $25 million to throw in the direction of software vulnerabilities.

The "Binary Analysis and Exploits" subscription (pre-paid, yearly) that the NSA purchased is described on Vupen's site as more of a defensive product, but it's highly unlikely intelligence the agency viewed it the same way.
With 15 to 20 binary analysis and private 1-day exploits/PoCs released by VUPEN each month, the VUPEN Binary Analysis and Exploits service allows gov organizations to quickly and easily evaluate risks related the most recent vulnerabilities, and protect national infrastructures against critical vulnerabilities before they are exploited in the wild.
Why the NSA didn't simply go with Vupen's more "proactive" product, "Exclusive and Sophisticated Exploits for Offensive Security", is unknown, unless better exploits were available in the defensive package.

While the NSA's document may lack a lot of details, a brochure obtained by Wikileaks shows what's available in Vupen's offensive package. This service targets law enforcement agencies (LEAs) as well as government agencies. LEAs could certainly be considered a "growth market," especially since so many are "rebranding" themselves as entities lying somewhere between a military force and an unofficial FBI field office.

What this program does is turn your subscription fee into credits and allow you (the LEA/government) to buy exploits with these credits (based on how valuable Vupen feels they are). It's like a Wii store for vulnerabilities. The ultimate aim?
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Now, Vupen states on its site and in its brochures that it will only sell to "trusted countries and government agencies." Even if that is entirely true, the underlying issue doesn't go away. Instead of identifying holes and working with software companies to get them patched (or at least informing the general public), it's selling these off to various intelligence/law enforcement agencies.

If Vupen can find these exploitable holes, so can other untrustworthy actors, whether they're governments that don't quite make the "trusted" list or simply individuals looking to profit on the misery of others. Vupen can't corner this market. A security hole is a security hole and no one owns it or can prevent others from exploiting it (other than by closing the hole). What it's selling isn't necessarily scarce and what it's doing is allowing the public (including paying customers) to assume the risk while it profits.

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:11:00 PST Music Industry Data: Sales Up, Piracy Down... But It's Not Because Of Any 'Anti-Piracy' Efforts Mike Masnick actually increases sales, so we looked closely at the numbers and they don't seem to say what some people think they're saying. The Hollywood Reporter has a good summary of both reports. One comes from IFPI, celebrating that "global recorded music revenue" rose 0.3% in 2012. That is, obviously, a tiny increase, but it is an increase. Of course, as we've noted, "recorded" music revenue is merely one piece of the wider music industry ecosystem -- and that entire ecosystem has been growing for quite some time.

The second report comes from one of the industry's favorite researchers, NPD, claiming a massive decline in music file sharing (based on consumer surveys). I've found NPD's data to be suspect in the past, but let's just assume this is true. Then, can we reach the conclusion that the industry's anti-piracy efforts both worked and that it led to increased sales?

Actually... no. Not even close. We can see this pretty clearly just by looking beyond the recorded music market, to the wider file sharing space. Various reports have made it clear that widespread file sharing (mostly of infringing content) has continued to grow quite rapidly during the same time period. Sandvine reports (pdf) that BitTorrent traffic increased 40% over the same basic time frame. Or, zero in on a different market beyond music. How about software? The BSA's annual report continues to show increases in "piracy."

What does that say? Well, if wider anti-piracy campaigns were effective, we wouldn't just be seeing a decline in music infringement. We'd see similar declines across the board. But the overall space and some other, similar, markets are showing increases in infringing content spreading.

That leads us to the much more reasonable hypothesis: the reason that music piracy is down and revenue is up is because the industry has finally started allowing more innovation into the market. Not surprisingly, this is exactly what we've been arguing for years. If you let the tech industry create useful new services that better provide the public with what they want, you get services and products that people are willing to pay for. And when that happens, infringement decreases, because the legitimate and authorized services are better than infringing. It's why music infringement fell off a cliff in Sweden when Spotify launched there, despite also being the home of The Pirate Bay. Notably, when music infringement plummeted in Sweden, other types of infringement did not similarly drop.

In other words, for all the complaints about these new services, and the many, many attempts to hold them back or neuter them, letting new services grow and thrive seems to be the best "anti-piracy" measure that the record labels could have used. And yet it still thinks it needs to focus on punishing fans and limiting services.

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:24:48 PDT Studio To Amazon Instant Video Customer: Thanks For The $$$. Enjoy Your Blank Screen. Tim Cushing combat piracy is to offer content at a reasonable price, make it easily accessible and hamper it with as few limitations as possible. Very, very slowly, the major studios are coming around to this line of thinking. A few tentative (and pretty much awful) steps have been taken, but it seems that for every minute, baby step forward, the motion picture industry staggers several steps back.

Case in point: Amazon's Instant Video service, which has "over 100,000 top movies and TV shows to rent or buy." This includes many new releases, and the purchaser can stream the movie indefinitely and at any time to compatible devices. The purchaser also has the option to download the movie to a PC or Kindle Fire for viewing without an internet connection.

It all sounds like a pretty good deal, until you realize that the words "indefinitely" and "any time" mean something completely different to the studios.
Consumerist reader Rebecca found this out the hard way, when she purchased Puss In Boots for $14.99 from Amazon, believing that, per Amazon’s marketing, she would be able to watch the movie when she wanted and for as many times as she wanted.

And all was going well for a few weeks until Rebecca went to stream Puss In Boots and instead saw a message stating that the film was no longer available for viewing.

As Rebecca found out, "any time" means "any time the studio is not currently milking every last dollar out of its latest release by shuffling it in and out of rental, PPV and premium cable windows." Why these windows should matter to someone who has already paid for the movie is beyond me. After all, the purchaser should be able to set his or her own "window," starting from the point they paid for the movie and going forward.

Amazon's marketing seems to agree with this customer-friendly "any time window." But once something like this happens, the real details come out. Rebecca contacted Amazon for some clarification on this bullshit "anomaly" and received this:
Due to licensing restrictions, videos can become temporarily unavailable for viewing or downloading. The video will automatically be made available again once that restriction ends.

Availability of videos for purchase, re-download, or access from a backup copy is determined by the owners of the content. On very rare occasions, a video you previously purchased may become unavailable.
Well, that's kind of crap. The video you "previously purchased" may become "unavailable" at the whims of "THE OWNERS OF THE CONTENT." No doubt wrinkles of incomprehension form on the brows of studio and label execs when customers make bizarre claims of "ownership" after purchasing movies and music. According to the execs, they only "licensed" the content to you (with all the billions of lousy stipulations that transaction entails). [Unless you're Eminem and demanding to be paid larger "license" royalties. In this specific case, you were sold actual songs.]

While this studio chicanery is nothing new, especially when it comes to digital goods, Amazon isn't helping matters by burying the exceptions and limitations that come with purchasing "indefinite" access. The licensing restrictions Rebecca had detailed for her by Amazon appear nowhere on the purchase pages. In fact, the "Amazon Instant Video Usage Rules" page carries none of this information either. Instead, it gives you this phrase and link:
Viewing Period: Indefinite — you may watch and re-watch your purchased videos as often as you want and as long as you want (subject to the limitations described in the Amazon Instant Video Terms of Use).
The TOS link brings you to a less-than-helpful wall of text, leaving the purchaser to scroll up and down before finding the pertinent information that explains exactly why something they purchased is unavailable.
Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the Service, as applicable, but may become unavailable due to potential content provider licensing restrictions and for other reasons, and Amazon will not be liable to you if Purchased Digital Content becomes unavailable for further download or streaming. You may download and store your own copy of Purchased Digital Content on a Compatible Device authorized for such download so that you can view that Purchased Digital Content if it becomes unavailable for further download or streaming from the Service.
Nice, huh? For any reason, your purchase may be limited, unavailable or removed completely by the "content provider." Amazon suggests (when it's done letting you know that "hey, not our fault") that the purchaser download and store their own copies to avoid being locked out of their purchases by the content providers. Well, thanks for the suggestion, Amazon, but even that half-assed "workaround" is useless thanks to the fact that the content provider can also make purchases "unavailable for further download." It's not as if Dreamworks is going to send an email blast letting customers know that their purchased streams are about to vanish thanks to a six-week run on pay-per-view. And the studios certainly aren't going to tell customers "Download now because we're yanking that movie from Amazon completely." Everyone involved would just rather the problem be dealt with when the angry emails start pouring in, if at all.

Now, Rebecca obviously prefers streaming, so getting shafted by the studios probably isn't going to drive her to massive torrenting. What it may do, however, is send her towards streaming services like Amazon Prime or Netflix. Because of its shortsighted urge to drain every last penny out of "Puss in Boots," Dreamworks seems willing to sacrifice actual "digital dollars" from Amazon Instant Video for the "digital dimes" of other streaming services. Of course, if the studio already has your $14.99, it's probably not very concerned about how satisfied you are with the spotty availability of your purchased movie license. It's not like Rebecca can return it. All she can do is wait for Dreamworks to reopen her (prepaid) window.

Streaming is becoming the preferred option for movies and music and Hollywood seems to be willing to fight it every step of the way. It's sad and it's ugly. The industry has crippled Hulu and Netflix (while offering nothing comparable of their own) and now seems ready and willing to kick Amazon and its customers around for as long as it can get away with it. It's one thing to play stupid games with content when customers are playing a flat rate for "all you can watch." It's quite another to yank content away from customers who have paid directly for a title at prices that rival a physical DVD purchase. That's not a "business model." That's abusing your customers for fun and profit.

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:38 PST How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate In Five Easy Steps Marcus Carab As we've mentioned before, it's interesting to watch copyright issues break into the mainstream and get attention from bigger and bigger sources. This time, Matthew Inman used his famous (and widely read) webcomic The Oatmeal to recount the moral quandary he was placed in when trying to watch Game of Thrones. It's hard to get the full effect without the whole comic, so you should really go read it—but here's a preview:

Of course, plenty of people have been saying this for years: the biggest driver of piracy is a lack of legitimate offerings. Unfortunately, the legacy players think (or at least claim) that they are being innovative with their offerings, even as their customers tell them otherwise. Hopefully, as people like Inman continue putting all-too-common stories like this into the spotlight, they will begin to get the message.

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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:44:43 PST Warner Bros. Wants You To 'Buy' Movies Instead Of Rent... And By 'Buy' It Means Spend More To Still 'Rent' Mike Masnick aren't particularly good, but the industry is still pushing forward with the idea. Leading the way is Warner Bros., who is trying to turn the movie-based "social network" it bought a few months ago, Flixster, into the central hub for your movies. The NY Times has an article about it, where it repeatedly claims that the strategy is all about trying to get people to "buy" movies again, rather than just rent them via Netflix of Redbox. Of course, I find this pretty funny, because nothing about UltraViolet is about actually "buying" anything. You're still renting -- and if things ever went to court over, say, your first sale rights to resell a movie you "purchased" using UltraViolet, you can bet that Warner Bros. would be first in line to claim that the license shows you're merely renting the movie, and not buying it. It's just that you're renting it on an open-ended timeline, basically until the studios bail on UltraViolet and shut down the servers.

Rob Pegoraro, in commenting on the article, notes that oddly, the article doesn't even mention DRM in talking about why people don't want to buy from the studios or the fact that it's still much more convenient to get the content by unauthorized means. But that concept still hasn't reached the brain trust at Warner Bros., who seems to insist that as long as you can access the movies you "bought" from anywhere, people will prefer that to file sharing. While it's great that they're at least trying to add benefits, to make it more valuable and worth paying for, the whole thing smacks of someone's father trying to "act cool" for his kids' friends. Warner Bros. still doesn't seem to understand why people like things like Netflix: the convenience. Everything about Ultraviolet sounds inconvenient, and that hardly makes anyone want to "buy."

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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:24:04 PDT Mike Masnick their sales of slurpees goes up. They say this is "odd behavior," but I don't buy that all. Free has been a compelling part of getting people to buy stuff for ages, even if that involves buying what is free. We've certainly seen this in other fields as well, such as when Cory Smith took his free MP3s off of his website... and immediately saw his iTunes sales plummet. People berate the use of free because they don't understand how it works. And, then, when it does work, they describe the behavior as "odd." Perhaps it's not odd at all once you realize how it works.

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Tue, 1 Feb 2011 01:01:00 PST Colorado Not Allowed To Demand All Purchase Info From Companies Mike Masnick purchase info on every citizen who had ordered anything from the site? Thankfully, Amazon won that lawsuit, and was allowed to protect purchaser privacy. However, other states apparently didn't get the message. Michael Scott points us to the news that the state of Colorado, which had put in place a similar law, just got a preliminary injunction barring it from enforcing the law. While it's not a final ruling, it does mean that the companies protesting this law have established a "substantial likelihood" of prevailing. The ruling focuses on how the law violates the Commerce Clause in regulating interstate commerce (which state governments are not allowed to do). It doesn't directly discuss the privacy issues, other than indirectly to note that weighing the balance of potential "harms" it makes sense to block this law. If the law is later found to be legal, then the state can still get that info and collect taxes, but if the law is allowed to be enforced, it could violate people's privacy and other rights.

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Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:20:00 PDT North Carolina Demands Amazon Reveal Every Detail Of Purchases By NC Residents Mike Masnick never happens. Various states have worked on ways around this in blatant revenue grabs. For example, it's become popular for states to claim that if a particular state has any residents who have signed up as Amazon affiliates, Amazon now has a presence in that state. In response to this, Amazon has cut off affiliate programs in various states. One of those states was North Carolina.

North Carolina's response was to go even further -- and have its Department of Revenue demand from Amazon a list of everyone in the state who had made a purchase on since 2003. Amazon contends that it already turns over plenty of data to North Carolina:
It routinely provides the Revenue Department with "voluminous information" about its sales to North Carolina addresses as part of routine audits of the company's compliance with sales and use tax laws. The information includes the date and total price of each transaction, the city, county and ZIP code to which each item was shipped and Amazon's standard product code for each item, which allows officials to see the description of every product purchased.
But what it does not provide is the actual names and addresses -- and North Carolina threatened to charge Amazon with contempt if it didn't provide that info. In response, Amazon is now suing North Carolina, claiming that the demand to turn over such information is a massive breach of the First Amendment, in that it could create serious chilling effects on what people would buy if they knew that the gov't was reviewing all of their purchases.

It's hard to see how North Carolina has any case here at all. Demanding such information would be a huge breach of privacy and of individual rights -- all in a blatant attempt by the state to collect more revenue. Hopefully the courts shut down this overreach quickly.

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Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:44:10 PST Yet Another (Yes, Another) Study Shows File Sharers Buy More Mike Masnick yet another study showing that those who engage in unauthorized file sharing end up buying more media. The study, looking at the UK (home of the new proposal to kick people off the internet), wasn't even close. Those who engaged in unauthorized file sharing tended to spend £77 on media per year, while those who did not spent about £44. And yet file sharers are the enemy? And the industry wants to kick them offline so they discover less new content? How will that help?

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:40:00 PDT Yet Another Study Shows File Sharers Buy More Media Mike Masnick also tend to spend more on authorized entertainment purchases. Now, to be fair, the study was paid for by a file sharing provider -- so, take it with a rather large grain of salt. But similar studies have been done in the past as well, and it seems to once again call into question the rallying cry in Hollywood that people just want stuff for free.

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:32:03 PST Study Says Lots Of Kids Are Making Sneaky Purchases Online With Parents' Cookied Credit Card Info Mike Masnick that plenty of kids were buying stuff online without their parents' knowledge or approval, using the stored credit card info on certain web shopping sites. Of course, if parents checked over their credit card statements regularly (or received the packages when delivered), you would think they would notice such activity.

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