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Earnest question: If you suspect them of lying on the issue, why would you trust them to release the full schema in response to the FOIA request, and not just omit any possibly incriminating columns?
How is this different from literally any other FOIA transaction, computer-y or otherwise?
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Earnest question: If you suspect them of lying on the issue, why would you trust them to release the full schema in response to the FOIA request, and not just omit any possibly incriminating columns?
How is this different from literally any other FOIA transaction, computer-y or otherwise?
(3) I imagine Chicago greatly regrets towing Matt Chapman "over a facially bogus ticket".
Hi everyone, I'm the plaintiff in this lawsuit. I'm still working on my companion post for tptacek's post! I'll have it ready Soon TM, but feel free to me any questions in the meantime here. While you're waiting, check out this older post: https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-...
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How is this different from literally any other FOIA transaction, computer-y or otherwise?
What is the theory then for why they do not want to release this schema? Don’t misunderstand me I appreciate how important it is that people push the boundaries of FOIA.
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That would be an outstanding outcome! Is this just for Oak Park, or beyond?
You'd hope that Oak Park, Evanston, Wilmette, and then Berwyn and Schaumburg could get this done, and then your next step would be either Chicago (tough because of aldermanic structure) or statewide, the way California did. Either way: you start in one municipality and work from there. It helps that zoning matters more in Oak Park (and Evanston) than almost anywhere else in Chicagoland.
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I don't understand the argument that knowing the column names doesn't help an attacker? Especially in a database that doesn't allow wildcards, doesn't it make things much easier if you know you can do '); SELECT col FROM logins, as opposed to having to guess the column name? And I don't think I disagree with the court on schema vs. file layouts either. It's not the file layout, but it's analogous: it tells you how th…
And this part seems self-defeating: > Attackers like me use SQL injection attacks to recover SQL schemas. The schema is the product of an attack, not one of its predicates”. If it's the product of an attack, but not the end goal, surely it's of value to the attacker? It seems clear to me that the statute does, as worded, in principle allow the city not to disclose the database schema - it would compromise the securit…
Well sure, but it doesn't help them attack. That's like arguing that since the bank robber wants dollar bills, dollar bills must be a useful tool for breaking into bank vaults.
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I don't understand the argument that knowing the column names doesn't help an attacker? Especially in a database that doesn't allow wildcards, doesn't it make things much easier if you know you can do '); SELECT col FROM logins, as opposed to having to guess the column name? And I don't think I disagree with the court on schema vs. file layouts either. It's not the file layout, but it's analogous: it tells you how th…
And this part seems self-defeating: > Attackers like me use SQL injection attacks to recover SQL schemas. The schema is the product of an attack, not one of its predicates”. If it's the product of an attack, but not the end goal, surely it's of value to the attacker? It seems clear to me that the statute does, as worded, in principle allow the city not to disclose the database schema - it would compromise the securit…
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You'd hope that Oak Park, Evanston, Wilmette, and then Berwyn and Schaumburg could get this done, and then your next step would be either Chicago (tough because of aldermanic structure) or statewide, the way California did. Either way: you start in one municipality and work from there. It helps that zoning matters more in Oak Park (and Evanston) than almost anywhere else in Chicagoland.
There is no way you get Wilmette to change zoning. They've fought with Small Cheval about the size of their sign for like 9 months. I doubt you'd get any village in the NT district to rezone - the Optima project was pulling teeth, everyone is worried about overcrowding NT, which as a single HS is pretty packed now
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I think you have an unrealistically high bar for who is suitable to be an expert witness. People who are not even remotely experts are often trotted up as "expert witnesses". OP is very easily an expert in his field; the only issue is that his communication style is not quite tuned properly for legal matters. Which shouldn't be surprising; that's the case for pretty much anyone who isn't in the legal profession, doin…
I don't expect someone -- even an expert -- to have perfect phrasing. But if they can't even tell you what they meant to say? How is that unrealistic expectations?