Power Line and MDE: Crazy Liars?
The subject line is in reference to a recent Daily Show piece on how network news - FOX News in particular - tries to get away with inflammatory and unproven accusations with one simple piece of punctuation: The question mark.
For a prime example of such disingenuous, tabloid behavior, see Power Line's Klobuchar Campaign Imploding? Minnesota Democrats Exposed doesn't even bother with that formality, and launches right into juvenile name-calling and false accusations: NOAH KUNIN IS JERK BLOGGER WHO ILLEGALLY VIEWED KENNEDY’S ADS
I've got news for you right-wingers hotly excited over this unfortunate incident: Knowing how to use a web browser is not illegal. Clicking on links in your email is not illegal.
Kennedy vs. The Machine is another culprit: Stolen Not Leaked. If they were brave enough to allow comments, I'd let them know that watching ads on an unsecure web site is most certainly not stealing.
posted by Chuck Olsen @ 3:27 AM |
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And this is so clear that the Klobuchar campaign felt it prudent to report it to the FBI.
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It's a huge overreaction to report this to the FBI. She did it to save as much political face as possible and show she's tough on crime - something along those lines.
In my video I'll show how easy it is to find out this kind of information, legally. I shouldn't go so far as to say whether what Noah Kunin did is legal or illegal, as far as typing "Allen" into the password field. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm being a typical pompous blogger here. But take a look at the law.
It basically says it's not legal to circumvent a technological measure to protect a copyrighted work. However, a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Here's the important point: The resulting page was itself a publicly accessible page. So the "password" is just functioning as a redirect to a public client page. Based on a little research in the Internet Archive, such a page could easily be found or guessed because it's basically the name of their client (i.e. "allen.html"). It's certainly not a crime to find or forward a publicly available web link.
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babydollracer68 said...
It's not a crime but if the aide broke a part of a code of ethics then yes she should be fired, but to bring in the FBI for what?! Well that is the government for you waste money on stupid stuff and ignore those who are in real need of real help.
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