Karl Fogel
rants.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Karl Fogel, an open source developer and author, writes about free software, licensing, governance and politics.
What HN saysHN links it for essays on open source and surveillance news; commenters cite its licensing post, and one notes the comment system is broken.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
tptacek · 2013-06-14
Why am I the one who needs to reserve judgement? I'm not the one saying things like "the name PRISM suggests optical intercepts on backbones", or "the name Palantir suggests that that company is acting as an all-seeing eye for NSA".
I'm not the only person with these concerns. Here's Karl Fogel of QuestionCopyright.org:
http://www.rants.org/2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/
And here's Mark Jaquith of Wordpress:
https://medium.com/prism-truth/82a1791c94d3
Steko · 2013-06-13
The Bob Cesca item this mediaite post is building on makes the case that Greenwald saw what he wanted to see:
I’m going to put it all out there and let the chips fall where they may: I’m increasingly convinced that Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the NSA story is tainted by his well-known agenda, leading him to make broad claims for the purposes of inciting outrage.
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/greenwald-sticks-with-his-story-in-s…
See also:
http://www.rants.org/2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/
retro212 · 2010-04-14
We've considered this license, but according to this blog post http://www.rants.org/2007/06/26/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/ it is not true open source license.
superkuh · 2023-07-30
His comment system is currently broken and will just 404 and return you to a URL at https://rants.org/%5Ehttp:/your.ip.addy.here/. So I guess I might as well post here instead,
>My web browser (currently Mozilla Firefox running on Debian GNU/Linux, thank you very much) will never cooperate with this bizarre and misguided proposal.
Mozilla used to be about user freedoms. Lately Mozilla has been a front-runner on turning off and disabling non-TLS just HTTP support. They will likely be one of the first browsers to remove support for it and eventually HTTP/1.1 as a whole. ref: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non-secure-ht…
Given that HTTP/3 as implemented by Mozilla cannot connect to self-signed TLS cert websites this means the future of Firefox is as a browser that can only visit websites that third party TLS CA corporations periodically approve (even if those corporations are currently benign, like LetsEncrypt). Does this remind you of anything? That's not to say other browsers are better in this respect. Mozilla's Firefox and it's forks are the least worst... it's just everything is getting much worse all together.