An interview in Salon with the company that did the Arizona Democratic Primary online voting.
An interview in Salon with the company that did the Arizona Democratic Primary online voting.
(I'm still not banned, but I guess I'm working on it...)
I guess I understand blocking the crack (in theory anyhow), but blocking criticism? There's no justification for that.
Mattel is also firing off threats at a Wired News reporter for simply maintaining an archive of related documents.
Sites hosting the crack, hosting critical essays, or sites pointing to critical essays are being banned under every catagory CyberPatrol has, such as Violence/Profanity, Partial Nudity, Sexual Acts, Gross Depictions, Intolerance, Satanic/Cult, Drugs/Drug Culture, Militant/Extremist, Sex Education, Gambling, and Alcohol and Tobacco.
Aside: Coporate America really needs to lose the idea that a site linking to something is the same as the site actually having and distributing that something.
Mattel, makers of CyberPatrol, a censorware product, are now censoring anybody who has the cracks on their site (not much surprise), and anybody who merely points to the cracks (more surprising).
Is it any wonder that the sum total of people's resistance to the destruction of privacy and other assorted rights is a special section on Slashdot and the underfunded and virtually ignored Electronic Frontier Foundation?
Was Bill Joy's treatise shocking because the thoughts were new and original (hint: no), or was it merely that we don't expect people at his level of accomplishment to ever look around them?