full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: wes at uia.net (Wes Zuber)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Hi William, you would be wrong about that. The Senator writes music and 
I can only guess that this is the reason for his emotion on the issue.

Thanks,

--Wes

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:30  AM, William D. Colburn (aka 
Schlake) wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:29:09PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>> bill, he was bitching about people doing something illegal that he
>> personally disagrees with, and that has a potential direct effect on 
>> him
>> since he holds some copyrights.
>
> I bet he doesn't hold a single copyright to any of his music.  
> Copyright
> exists to protect the artist, but the artist can't get published unless
> he gives up his copyright to a corporation.
>
> I don't think people should steal music, and I don't lend CDs to people
> who I know will rip the tracks, but neither do I believe that the 
> arists
> have any say in copyright policy since they gave theirs up, nor do I
> believe that the corporation which bought the copyright is entitled to
> any of the protections that were meant for the artist.
>
> The whole copyright battle as portrayed in the media is a bunch of
> posturing and rhetoric that is trying to convince people to abandon our
> existing parasigm that popular culture is "public property" of the
> society, and not restricted commercial property.
>
> --
> William Colburn, "Sysprog" <wcolburn@....edu>
> Computer Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
> http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/     http://www.nmt.edu/~wcolburn
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
>