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I found this Harvard study a while back about the volume of litigation in the us versus other countries. Their conclusions are interesting. PDF link: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/R... "Coffee spills, Pokemon class actions, tobacco settlements. American courts have made a name for themselves as a wild lottery and a money machine for a lucky few lawyers. At least in part, however, the repu…
Getting a file not found for that link. Is it available anywhere else?
GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
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Re: GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
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> a hypothetical distributed federated GitHub. God this is depressing to read. Git (not "GitHub") is already a distributed VCS. This isn't hypothetical! If you're a random individual hosting a git repo containing illegal content, you might get sued, but much much more likely, you'd just get an angry email demanding you take it down.
> God this is depressing to read. Git (not "GitHub") is already a distributed VCS. This isn't hypothetical! I feel like you're missing the context in this thread. My parent was giving federated protocols as as alternative to centralized platforms, and my question is what are the legal implications for me if I end up hosting illegal content because of a network sync of some federated git. Maybe social media is a less…
I feel like you're wilfully missing the point. Let's leave aside child porn because that's an extreme case and I'm assuming you'd report that to the police if it showed up on your social media feed.
In terms of less extreme cases, there's a fairly good chance that in the course of your normal browsing, you've illegally downloaded copyrighted content. Maybe deliberately, but also by accident if your browser cached some photos or you right-clicked and saved some images you didn't have a valid license for.
Have you ever been sued for this? Do you know anyone who has?
Re: GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
#103It would be trivial to post every SSN online. There's maximum one billion numbers fitting that format. Store each number in 30 bits, that's about 3600 MiB of data.
It would also be highly compressible. So maybe 1-2 GB after compression?
Re: GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach
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Is this true? I wasn’t aware that websites could capture your find-in-page searches. I’d be interested to know if they can capture your key events when the find-in-page box has focus. Intuition tells me they can’t, and that it would be outside of the websites “sandbox”. But I can’t say for sure.
At the very least, javascript can tell where you are scrolled to on the page. With minor cleverness that should be enough.
Indeed, this is what I was thinking.