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In 1998, Congress unanimously passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to implement two international copyright treaties. Among other provisions, the DMCA addresses the use of technical measures (digital rights management or DRM… Continue reading The Right to Repair Your Electronics Just Got Stronger
But critics say losing access to an essential utility is a problematic over-reaction to copyright infringement. Continue reading AT&T Will Kick Internet Users Offline for Piracy
“No researcher wants to end up in jail for discovering a vulnerability.” Continue reading Feds Expand Security Researchers’ Ability to Hack Without Going to Jail
It just got easier for owners of a wide range of home devices to hack and repair their software. Continue reading “Right to repair” gets a boost from new DMCA software rules
This year’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) triennial review (PDF, legalese) contained some great news. Particularly, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it has been deemed legal, and a previous exemption for reverse engineering 3D printer firmware to use the filament of your choice has been broadened. The infosec community got some clarification on penetration testing, and video game librarians and archivists came away with a big win on server software for online games.
Moreover, the process to renew a previous exemption has been streamlined — one used to be required to reapply from scratch every three …read more
Continue reading DMCA Review: Big Win for Right to Repair, Zero for Right to Tinker
The consoles allegedly sold on eBay by the California man were packed with over 60 pirated games.
Continue reading Jailbroken PS4 seller sued by Sony
Apple released a phone, the most phone in the history of phones. It’s incredible.
There are four machines that are the cornerstone of electronic music. The TR-808, the TR-909, the TB-303, and the SH-101 are the machines that created techno, house, and every other genre of electronic music. This week at KnobCon Behringer, the brand famous for cheap mixers, other audio paraphernalia of questionable quality, and a clone of the Minimoog, teased their clone of the 909. Unlike the Roland reissue, this is a full-sized 909, much like Behringer’s clone of the 808. Price is said to be under $400, …read more
As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes. Continue reading Hollywood accuses itself of piracy
A chunk of Snapchat’s source code that wasn’t meant to be public just popped up on GitHub. Will this harm security? Continue reading Snapchat source code leaked on GitHub – but no one knows why
Snap confirmed to Motherboard that an iOS update recently exposed some of the company’s source code. Continue reading Snapchat Source Code Leaked and Posted to GitHub