Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by abhishekpathak » Sat, May 21, 2011, 10:48 PM UTC

Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security
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Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by abhishekpathak » Sat, May 21, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

(From Techie-buzz : http://techie-buzz.com/discussions/mozilla-vs-homeland-secur...)

"Recently, Mozilla started offering a new addon. called MAFIAAfire, in the Firefox Addons site. If you are using MAFIAAfire when you try to visit one of the seized domains, you’ll be redirected to the new address for that website, if they have created one.

Note: MAFIAA means Music and Film Industry Association of America

Naturally, Homeland Security didn’t like that and sent Mozilla a take-down notice for the new addon. Mozilla’s written response to the request was a classic “Why do we need to?”, in the form of 11 piercing questions that will probably never be answered."

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by cleverjake » Sat, May 21, 2011, 11:50 PM UTC

It makes me sad that the fact a company is actually questioning something so obvious is news. =/

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by MaxGabriel » Sat, May 21, 2011, 11:56 PM UTC

abhishekpathak wrote: post #2

(From Techie-buzz : http://techie-buzz.com/discussions/mozilla-vs-homeland-secur... ) "Recently, Mozilla started offering a new addon. called MAFIAAfire, in the Firefox Addons site. If you are using MAFIAAfire when you try to visit one of the seized domains, you’ll be redirected to the new address for that website, if they have created one. Note: MAFIAA means Music and Film Industry Association of America Naturally,…

Ha, its a little disgusting to think that it makes sense to say that naturally DHS would be concerned about groups like MAFIAA

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by kevinpet » Sun, May 22, 2011, 2:40 AM UTC

They need to make it a featured download on their homepage until the DHS answers.

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by schwit » Sun, May 22, 2011, 3:23 AM UTC

Old news.

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by winton » Sun, May 22, 2011, 3:51 AM UTC

cleverjake wrote: post #3

It makes me sad that the fact a company is actually questioning something so obvious is news. =/

It makes me happy. Hopefully Mozilla is the first of many.

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by SoftwareMaven » Sun, May 22, 2011, 4:12 AM UTC

winton wrote: post #7

cleverjake wrote: post #3

It makes me sad that the fact a company is actually questioning something so obvious is news. =/

It makes me happy. Hopefully Mozilla is the first of many.

I am talking with my investors about the possibility of making this kind of questioning a market differentiator for our company. It isn't without risks...

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by cleverjake » Sun, May 22, 2011, 4:20 AM UTC

winton wrote: post #7

cleverjake wrote: post #3

It makes me sad that the fact a company is actually questioning something so obvious is news. =/

It makes me happy. Hopefully Mozilla is the first of many.

Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to see it happening. I am sad that it is so unique as to needed to be celebrated is all.

Re: Mozilla's Questions to Department of Homeland Security

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Post by cleverjake » Sun, May 22, 2011, 4:21 AM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #8

winton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It makes me happy. Hopefully Mozilla is the first of many.

I am talking with my investors about the possibility of making this kind of questioning a market differentiator for our company. It isn't without risks...

A list of legal questions, assuming they are non inflammatory and backed up with data, should be fairly low risk. Though I now that should and is are two different things.

Either way, good luck.