Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > So, using shell commands is now a sign of illegal activity... > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious According to the always-reliable Slashdot comments , EFF is taking the warrant statements ra

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > So, using shell commands is now a sign of illegal activity... > > > > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious > > “…uses two different operating systems to hide his illegal activities. > One is a re

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > I'm more bothered that the witness said "regular BC operating system" > instead of Windows.. Well, sadly, that's a fair description of Microsoft Windows. It *does* have the vast majority of the market share. As someone on Slashdot pointed

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > The reason the guy was arrested ... Correction: The suspect was not arrested. It was a property seizure, not an arrest. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ed lawson
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:01:05 -0400 Ben Scott wrote: > [The officer] left a > Property Receipt with [the suspect] listing items seized during the > search ... The seized post-it note does not appear on that > receipt.".. But when an accused can't even make > notes for use in their own defens

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:08:46 -0400 > From: Ed lawson > Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group > believe police officers increasingly feel empowered to take very suspect > if not unlawful actions simply by reason of their position of authority > and for their self interest. Speaking from personal

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > So, using shell commands is now a sign of illegal activity... > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious > “…uses two different operating systems to hide his illegal activities. > One is a regular B.C

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Curtis Sandoval
It's only suspicious if he was using EMACS, everyone knows vi is the One True Editor. 2009/4/16 Thomas Charron > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > > So, using shell commands is now a sign of illegal activity... > > > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-pr

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ed lawson
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:31:43 GMT virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: > But (while on the topic) there's one safe place that anyone can stash > something even with no technical skills at all: a lawyer's office. > Anything you give to your lawyer is protected by attorney-client > privilege. No crypto re

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Curtis Sandoval wrote: > > It's only suspicious if he was using EMACS, everyone knows vi is the One > True Editor. > I dunno. I mean, really, a hardcore emacs user would have customized their UI to provide color syntax highlighting. And the SPECIAl color for

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, wrote: > ... we can encrypt anything that might be incriminating ... http://xkcd.com/538/ -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-05-22 Thread Ted Roche
Kenny Lussier wrote: > So, using shell commands is now a sign of illegal activity... > > stirring the pot with a follow-up, the EFF reports: * A JUDGE HAS ORDERED POLICE TO RETURN A LAPTOP AND OTHER PROPERTY SEIZED FROM A BOSTON COLLEGE COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT'S DORM ROOM after finding there