US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by praptak on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:45AM (#5773457)

I don't even care what the true intent of the lobby group is. Once in effect, the laws will hit little Timmys, perhaps with a little help of outspoken lawyers painting Timmy as evil as a Chinese spy.

The "three strikes" was intended for violent criminals, not little Timmy who smokes a joint with his friends. Guess how that turned out.

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by seandhi on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:04AM (#5773504)

Did you read the paper or just the BoingBoing article? The part about the rootkit and active network defense referenced by the BoingBoing article come from chapter 13 of the paper, which deal with targeted cyber espionage attacks. If Timmy is the target of that section, then Timmy has bigger issues to deal with.

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