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First Amendment Case Against Restrictive Copyright Law Can Proceed, Says Judge

A federal judge has ruled that litigation can go forward to determine whether Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violates the First Amendment as applied. EFF brought this litigation on behalf of security researcher Matt Green, technologist bunnie Huang, and bunnie's company Alphamax, in order to vindicate the right to speak, learn, and innovate despite this overly-broad and harmful law.

Originally passed to combat infringement, the sweeping language of Section 1201 allowed courts to interpret its provisions to leave out critical speech protections such as the fair use doctrine. This has interfered with educational uses of copyrighted works, accessibility, security research, remix art, and even your ability to repair your own car or tractor.

The ruling is a mixed bag. While the "as-applied" First Amendment claims will go forward, the court did not agree that rulemaking by the Librarian of Congress is subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act, even when the Librarian is performing an executive branch function rather than a congressional one. The court also did not agree that the Librarian's rulemaking is subject to the First Amendment scrutiny that applies when a government official is making determinations about what speech to permit. Finally, the court saw no need to adjudicate the claims that Section 1201 is overly broad, because it concluded that determining the constitutionality of the statute as applied to the plaintiffs will turn on the same issues as with other potential targets of the law.

The bottom line is that the case is going forward and we will continue the fight to help you understand and modify the devices in your life and remix the culture we all share.

Related Cases:  Green v. U.S. Department of Justice

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Without a GUI--How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
Sure, it may be hard, but it is possible to give up graphical interfaces entirely—even in 2019.
by @lunduke

linuxjournal.com/content/witho
#terminal

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I'm really getting a kick out of producing the "Weekly Tech News" with my bud, @gbryant.

It's short. It's tech news. It's... just goofy. Makes me smile.

LBRY: beta.lbry.tv/weekly-tech-news-

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=trjHrSRID5

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Little piece of git rebase advice occurs to me

Say you're working on a feature that touches 3 modules, and you've written a bunch of commits during your work that all touch a mix of the affected modules in each commit. When it comes time to rebase, you want to get one commit per module. In git rebase -i, choose the "e" option for any commits affecting multiple modules, then git reset HEAD^ to undo that commit and update the working directory. Use git add -p to add only the hunks affecting module A, then commit it. Rinse & repeat for other modules, then git rebase --continue until you're done.

Then git rebase -i again, reorder the commits to group them by module, and squash/fixup to your heart's content.

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Today's #Linux News:
* Linus Torvalds Warns of Future Hardware Issues
* Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Insights
* Offensive Security Launches OffSec Flex
* Nextcloud Has a New Collaborative Rich Text Editor Called Nextcloud Text
* GNOME Announces GNOME Usage

linuxjournal.com/content/nextc

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Heute hab ich mal wieder grosse Fortschritte bei der #Searx App fuer #KaiOS erreicht.Die App unterstuetzt es jetzt,in den unterschiedlichen Kategorien von Searx zu suchen,nicht nur allgemein wie am Anfang.Eine Besonderheit ist die Bildersuche.Das Bild nimmt den ganzen freien Platz ein und ein klick auf hoch/runter wechselt immer ein Bild vor oder zurueck.Ausserdem kann man die Bilder mit der linken Taste direkt aus der Suchergebnisseite herunterladen.

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Do you like and pleistocene megafauna? Then you might be interested in this position!

Purism is a very progressive team, we encourage all interested people to apply, regardless of location, income, gender, age, race, religion, skin, height, weight, sexual orientation, or any other personal trait(s). We do not discriminate and are proud to operate a safe-work-place. More details in the link.

puri.sm/job/ruby-application-d

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Download our #Linux Laptop Buyer's Guide (free). It was published in Dec 2018 but still very useful today. In it we review the:
* Chromebook
* Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
* @purism Librem 13v2
* @system76 Oryx Pro
Enjoy!
linuxjournal.com/node/1340351
#laptops

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Man kann auf neueren KaiOS Versionen leider keine Custom ROMs mehr installieren,weil die Recovery jetzt nur noch zugelassene Signaturen akzeptiert.Das ist doof 👎 Ich hab mich schon auf GerdaOS gefreut,aber ok,dann bleibe ich halt doch beim normalen KaiOS...

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Sort of inspired by the results of a poll @fribbledom did regarding Free Software donations and a comment I made about an easy way to keep yourself on track with that, I started this simple project.

fosscan.org

I have to #dogfood the project so including a pic of my own (rapidly filling) #FOSScan

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Der heutige Workshop zur Digitalisierung von Jugendarbeit, beim #DBJR, war interessant und konstruktiv. Wir konnten interessante Einblicke in die Themenbereiche Verbandsstrukturen und Jugendarbeit nehmen.

Die Themen Open Source und Datenschutz sind natürlich, als Begleitthemen, auch nicht unter den Tisch gefallen. Tolles Gesprächsklima. :blobthumbsup:

Im nächsten Logbuch gibt es ein wenig mehr dazu. Bis dahin, eine geruhsame Nacht! :anxde:

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7 days, 7 applications running on the Librem 5 smartphone dev kit (with video).

Web browsing. Taking notes. Playing Solitaire. And that's just for starters.

Check out what's possible. And stay tuned as we showcase something new every single day.

puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-libr

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The History of Cellular Network Security Doesn’t Bode Well for 5G

There’s been quite a bit of media hype about the improvements 5G is set to supposedly bring to users, many of which are no more than telecom talking points. One aspect of the conversation that’s especially important to get right is whether or not 5G will bring much-needed security fixes to cell networks. Unfortunately, we will still need to be concerned about these issues—and more—in 5G.

Past security flaws in the design of cell network infrastructure are being used for everything from large scale SMS spamming to enabling dragnet surveillance by law enforcement and spying in DC via cell site simulators (a.k.a. Stingrays, IMSI-catchers). Longtime cell network security researcher Roger Piqueras Jover has recently published a short but comprehensive reflection on the history of the cell security research that uncovered much of those flaws, and with it, his view of the security outlook for 5G.

Jover draws attention to how rapidly the field of cell network security research has been accelerating. It took researchers over 10 years after GSM was first standardized and deployed to find the first security flaws in the GSM (2G) protocol. For LTE (4G), it took approximately 7 years. Fast forward to the 5G standard, which was finalized  in March 2018. While there are currently no commercial implementations of 5G widely in use yet, researchers have already discovered over 6 critical security flaws in this new protocol.

Standardization efforts simply aren’t keeping up with the rapid rise of critical security flaws. The group responsible for maintaining the standards and incorporating security fixes (the 3GPP) primarily consists of big players in the telco industry, who don’t have much incentive to come up with and incorporate the critical user privacy fixes that are needed.

On the positive side, Jover points out that there are increasing efforts from researchers to explore potential fixes for many of the security problems in cell networks. In the recent past Ericsson has stepped up their efforts to fix some of the vulnerabilities in 5G’s identification and authentication procedures (i.e. the process that takes place between a mobile phone and a cell tower when each is verifying the other is who they claim to be). Similarly, researchers recently published a proof-of-concept paper proposing a PKI (public key infrastructure) & digital certificate system for the connection between mobile phones and cell towers (similar to SSL certificates and HTTPS).


Despite these efforts, for real change to take place, it must come from within: the 3GPP’s biggest players need to embrace the work required to fix the fundamental flaws that have plagued cell networks for years. Until then, our mobile devices are still vulnerable to being caught up in dragnet and targeted surveillance attacks. As it stands, 5G won’t be any sort of panacea—for increasing security, for improving wireless accessibility, or for solving the issues of broadband monopolies that contribute to each of these.

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Want to find your way from A to B?

You should try:
maps.openrouteservice.org

I've used it a couple of times today, and it was great.

* Uses OpenStreetMap data
* Service provided by HeiGIT
* Doesn't spy on you
* Maps look great
* Effective routes
* Share with friends
* Add your own tracks
* Export to GPX plus others
* Elevation profile

You can also go to C, D, E and many more. 😉

#OSM #maps #routes #routing #FOSS #FLOSS #CrowdSourced

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