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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-06-24</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Correction">
        <outline text="Jukka Liedes is chairman of Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights"/>
        <outline text="Not the chairman of WIPO itself"/>
        <outline text="To be fair, I said I didn't know chair of what"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Earth PodioBook launch"/>
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    <outline text="Security Alerts" Offset="05:21">
      <outline text="10K web sites coopted" Offset="05:41">
        <outline text="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2007/06/18/hijacked_sites_install_malware/"/>
        <outline text="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070618-security-researchers-uncover-massive-attack-on-italian-web-sites.html"/>
        <outline text="Infected sites use a trojan downloader to infect visitors"/>
        <outline text="Redirects visitors via an iFrame"/>
        <outline text="Target of redirection apparently is assembled from a professional looking attack kit"/>
        <outline text="Malware includes a key logger"/>
        <outline text="Researchers don't know how the servers are being infected, let alone how fast"/>
        <outline text="Think the attackers are using an automated tool like Metasploit"/>
        <outline text="Speculate that the attacks are more attractive because JavaScript makes payoff greater"/>
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      <outline text="Google opens malware blacklist API" Offset="07:30">
        <outline text="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/126285213/20070619-google-opens-up-malware-blacklist-api.html"/>
        <outline text="Pretty standard web API, like Google Maps was or del.icio.us"/>
        <outline text="Requires a key, used to throttle misbehaving developers"/>
        <outline text="Earlier version inadvertently revealed usernames, passwords"/>
        <outline text="Still admittedly experimental"/>
        <outline text="Still, part of Google's efforts to make the web safer"/>
        <outline text="Ordinarily don't like black lists, but with the whole internet, how else do you tackle the problem?"/>
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    <outline text="News" Offset="09:42">
      <outline text="Lessig announces a change in focus" Offset="09:56">
        <outline text="http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml"/>
        <outline text="Made the announcement at iSummit"/>
        <outline text="A meeting on free internet, free culture"/>
        <outline text="Will maintain some ties with Creative Commons"/>
        <outline text="Will consolidate, relinquish other roles"/>
        <outline text="New focus will be addressing corruption in the political process"/>
        <outline text="Clearly sense a frustration with how this affects IP reform"/>
        <outline text="Sees the education aspect of his work as finished"/>
        <outline text="Implying that improving the political process is necessary to progress in Congress"/>
        <outline text="Skeptical of his success"/>
        <outline text="However if anyone can come up with new ways of trying to effect change, Lessig can"/>
        <outline text="Definitely seen this problem with all aspects of IT, public policy"/>
        <outline text="As he identifies, wherever there is a money interest, the issues get skewed"/>
        <outline text="Can't to see what he does, writes next"/>
        <outline text="Still one of my heroes, maybe more so"/>
        <outline text="Hope this is not a quixotic question, though"/>
        <outline text="If no one tries, then how do we know?"/>
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      <outline text="Expectation of privacy extended to email" Offset="14:57">
        <outline text="http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005321"/>
        <outline text="Based on ruling by 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals"/>
        <outline text="Finds Stored Communications Act unconstitutional"/>
        <outline text="SCA was used for warrantless seizure of emails"/>
        <outline text="Now a violation of the 4th amendment"/>
        <outline text="Means online, offline communication equally protected"/>
        <outline text="Initiated by Warshak case, EFF, ACLU and CDT served as amici in the case"/>
        <outline text="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1170"/>
        <outline text="Explains a little more about the case"/>
        <outline text="Also points out the key element of the amicus briefs"/>
        <outline text="Likened ease of read email to ease of access POTS"/>
        <outline text="If phone calls have an expectation of privacy, so should email"/>
        <outline text="Specific to email, as a form of communication, only"/>
        <outline text="Not applicable to other third party data"/>
        <outline text="Links to a discussion exploring third party data"/>
        <outline text="http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2007/06/regulating_the_.html"/>
        <outline text="Thinks the ruling hinges on how common email has become"/>
        <outline text="Still allows for automated analysis, like virus checking, by ISP"/>
        <outline text="Does the automation exception open a loophole?"/>
        <outline text="Echelon, carnivore were &quot;automated&quot;"/>
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      <outline text="The risk of a lone contributor" Offset="18:26">
        <outline text="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000890.html"/>
        <outline text="Starts with the assumption that developers are socially maladapted"/>
        <outline text="Asks whether lone contribution makes the most sense, then"/>
        <outline text="Responding to a lone developers complaints">
          <outline text="http://eddiesguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/creating-my-own-personal-hell.html"/>
          <outline text="Not a question of a single developer, but a single team member"/>
          <outline text="By his own admission, is doing everything"/>
          <outline text="Quickly points out the problem, the unyielding expectations"/>
          <outline text="Personal discipline, experience an address some of his points"/>
          <outline text="A good, multi-disciplinary team, though, is better"/>
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        <outline text="For professional work, with external stake holders, I agree"/>
        <outline text="Even for open source, a &quot;lone&quot; author usually has a community"/>
        <outline text="Trying to do a team's job as one is foolish"/>
        <outline text="If you can do just one engineer's worth of work, no other disciplines, I think it can be rewarding"/>
        <outline text="Those espousing it, though, overlook non-coding contributions, I think"/>
        <outline text="Agree it is more positive to work with peers than not"/>
        <outline text="Still think it is pretty difficult to find genuine peers"/>
        <outline text="Overlooks non-technical issue with other people"/>
        <outline text="Personal dynamics can be just as debilitating"/>
        <outline text="No simple answer, everyone's needs will dictate unique requirements"/>
        <outline text="Does set up a a few spectra for consideration">
          <outline text="Many hats versus narrower focus"/>
          <outline text="Self sufficiency versus a support network"/>
          <outline text="Personal dynamics versus lack of socialization"/>
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      </outline>
      <outline text="Debate between internet skeptic and an advocate" Offset="24:35">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/126701928/clay_shirky_defends_.html"/>
        <outline text="Michael Gorman makes some acceptable observations on differences between information, knowledge and wisdom"/>
        <outline text="His characterization of progressive though on copyright is way off the mark"/>
        <outline text="Clearly a subscriber to the moral rights of the author, vs. public good"/>
        <outline text="Goes back and forth on what causes what, change in technology or change in morals"/>
        <outline text="Essentially, many of his arguments are old"/>
        <outline text="Same problems exist in other media, books for instance are published that have little or no substantial base"/>
        <outline text="Clay Shirky points out that Gorman's response is nothing new"/>
        <outline text="Incumbents always want veto over change "/>
        <outline text="Points out some suspect conflations in Gorman's logic"/>
        <outline text="Desirability of reading on paper says nothing about superior stance of published works"/>
        <outline text="Points to some facts that speak to successful hybridization of paper, digital">
          <outline text="Digital is good at storage, categorization"/>
          <outline text="Paper is admittedly superior for display"/>
          <outline text="Why force each to do what the other is better at?"/>
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    <outline text="tail -f" Offset="27:38">
      <outline text="NAB and the WIPO broadcast treaty" Offset="27:57">
        <outline text="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/126832854/national_association.html"/>
        <outline text="Jukka Liedes is the committee chairman"/>
        <outline text="Good explanation of the possible broadcast right"/>
        <outline text="Especially points out no fair use exemption in new right"/>
        <outline text="General Assembly has ordered the committee to restrict treaty to theft of signals"/>
        <outline text="The chairman has defied the assembly"/>
        <outline text="Wonder what his rational is, if any?"/>
        <outline text="NAB has defied its constituents, particularly NPR and PBS, to lobby for Liedes version of the treaty"/>
        <outline text="Linked article is by Sherwin from PK, cool!"/>
        <outline text="NABA apparently thinks new rights actually are necessary to protect signals"/>
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      <outline text="EFF from WIPO meeting, breakdown on  latest drafy" Offset="30:50">
        <outline text="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005331.php"/>
        <outline text="Treaty is a ten year work in progress"/>
        <outline text="Issues are from specific drafts, not necessarily the treaty"/>
        <outline text="US delegation opposed moving forward to a Diplomatic Conference"/>
        <outline text="Many agreed that consensus was still too far out to proceed"/>
        <outline text="Treaty will probably continue to move forward"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="32:22">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 360-252-7284"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
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      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
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