Re:Teenager jailed for refusing to hand over computer password
by mindslight on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:04PM
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> You think that encrypted contents of a computer harddrive is a logically equivalent operation to writing things in a form only comprehensible to oneself.
This entirely depends on whether you view your computer as an extension of your personal consciousness or as being an external service that you're interacting with. I'd rather a society where computers act as individuals' agents, rather than people being at the mercy of the computers.
Re:Teenager jailed for refusing to hand over computer password
by ovi256 on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:06PM
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This color is what normal people call intention.
Big file that is storing your n-th computed prime : innocuous.
Big file that is storing pirated movie, even if called "n-th prime" : not OK.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
Computer programmers think, aha, I can apply an arbitrary algorithmic translation to input A and get output B, and applying the law to B would be absurd, so therefore applying the law to A is also absurd. What they fail to realize is that bits have color -- a type of metadata that law algorithms can see and operate on which your computer algorithms are ignorant of.
You think that encrypted contents of a computer harddrive is a logically equivalent operation to writing things in a form only comprehensible to oneself. This is only true if you're Colorblind.