X-Cop Fly Company

Many of you who came to the X-Cop Fly Company blog (or to Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org) yesterday were redirected to the SOPA Strike page. (The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I [...]

Well, it’s your property, and when you get robbed, you call the police to defend your property, right? Old RIAA PSA Commercial

Within the past few days, I have posted several comments to the “Copyright is Unconstitutional” blog post on Stephan Kinsella’s Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. Kinsella argues that being an amendment, the First Amendment nullified the Copyright/Patent Clause. Copyrights/Patents (Article I Section 8 ): To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, [...]

Quotes from “What the State Fears Most: Information” by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan: Presently, our ability to attain knowledge is threatened because said knowledge represents a threat to the state — not to “national security,” as is claimed, but to the legitimacy of the state itself. Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society [...]

I had held for a long time that OpenBSD was the best, not only for security reasons, but to escape corporate and government influence. Unlike Linux and FreeBSD, which have involvement and sponsorship by the NSA, other government agencies & contractors, and large multinational corporations, with built in “remote attestation” and “optional” built-in support for [...]

I decided today to increase the “journal” portion of this site to a regular thing. The news and politics and funny pictures and videos won’t go away, and there will still probably be more of those than journal entries, but I think it’s a great way to add stuff to the public domain, whereas these [...]

This Reuters article features different terrorist and communist leaders commenting on capitalism to the UN. However, their comments are not about capitalism at all. Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of [...]

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that a case involving WikiLeaks would likely come before the court. She said that the WikiLeaks “incident,” in which the group posted thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents online, “and others are going to provoke legislation that’s already being discussed in Congress, and so some [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation finally succeeded at something: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their [...]

For at least 2-3 years, including on this blog, I have been pointing out the hypocrisy resulting from the commercialization of open-source software, including the FSF selling out to special interests, TPM in the Linux kernel, the NSA winning a “no-bid contract” of sort into the Linux kernel’s remote attestation features, remote attestation in Linux [...]