[Discuss] FYI: We the People...

2011-11-03 Thread Hsuanyeh Chang
Petitioning President Obama to End Software Patents. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/11/we-the-people-petitioning-president-obama-to-end-software-patents.html?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatentlyO+%28Dennis+Crouch%27s+Patently-O%29 HYC on the go

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:56:41AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: Everyone wants to connect their iPad or phone... so we got a cheap cable modem from Comcast, wired up a WiFi router, and let them play. You don't really need a separate uplink - just

Re: [Discuss] Data including email, stored in the cloud, may be available to law enforcement without search warrant

2011-11-03 Thread Bill Horne
On 11/3/2011 8:47 AM, scottmarydavid...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/ecpa-turns-twenty-five/ Paraphrasing the article: According to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the law still considers data that has been left on cloud servers for longer than six

Re: [Discuss] Data including email, stored in the cloud, may be available to law enforcement without search warrant

2011-11-03 Thread Gregory Boyce
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Daniel C. dcrooks...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM,  ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: This is a problem that can be easily solved by using end-to-end encryption. The capability is already built-in to every common email client. Assuming your ISP

Re: [Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

2011-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Daniel C. dcrooks...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Why doesn't GMail reply to list by default?! Does this lack of feature bug you? Gmail is behaving correctly. The reply-to header is set by the mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: Everyone wants to connect their iPad or phone... so we got a cheap cable modem from Comcast, wired up a WiFi router, and let them play. Good approach. Obviously it can also be implemented using appropriate router/firewall/VLAN rules, rather than a physically separate WAN

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:43:13PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: I can point to complete physical separation when the auditors come. That's worth more than the Comcast bill. Sure, but aren't there dozens of other places in your infrastructure where your security *is* dependent on firewall rules,