Kurt Opsahl Quotations

What they have done so far is a start, but it does not resolve all issues. Sony has fixed the immediate security flaw but there are other flaws. It is critical for Sony to do a robust notice campaign to make people aware of this.

We're asking that the system allow people to surf and to post and read things anonymously. Because the system requires people to sign on, it creates the opportunity for persistent tracking.

Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996 made clear that interactive computer services could not be held liable as publishers or speakers of content posted by third parties. It also provides that no cause of action may be brought, and no liability may be imposed under any state or local law that is inconsistent with the section. And what he proposes is a state law that is inconsistent with that section.

One of the key issues in this case is protecting the rights of journalists

I believe that the FBI and DOJ want to extend CALEA as far as possible.

We're pleased that Sony BMG responded quickly and responsibly when we drew their attention to this security problem. Consumers should take immediate steps to protect their computers.

What you search for indicates a lot about you: what you're worried about, what you're interested in. It's a window into your personality that people consider to be very private information.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

It appears that the judge is going to try to split the baby.

What you want to do is to teach students to use liberty responsibly, not take it away because you don't trust what they'll do with it. One thing you can do to guarantee that everyone in the school will want to see a site is to suspend someone over it.

We believe AT&T violated the law by providing the communications of its clients to the government without warrants, which is prohibited by federal law.

We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony.

While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.

Creativity and innovation will end up moving offshore where programmers outside the U.S. can develop technologies that are not required to address the onerous CALEA requirements. The U.S. companies will face competition from foreign providers who will enjoy an advantage.

There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.

The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.

Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective digital rights management technologies. We hope that other record labels will learn from Sony's hard experience and focus more on the carrot of quality music and less on the stick of copy protection.

The California courts have a long history of supporting and protecting freedom of the press. We are looking forward to the opportunity to ask the Court of Appeal to correct a ruling that endangers all journalists.

The California Court of Appeals has a long history of protecting freedom of the press. We're hopeful they'll continue to do so.

That was a big win for free speech.

This is not a surprising result. It brings into question whether this is really the best use of the state's resources to constantly put up these clearly unconstitutional laws, only to have them challenged and thrown out. It does seem to be one in this series of law passes, gets challenged, gets struck down. Rinse, lather, repeat.

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

A tech mandate requiring backdoors in the Internet endangers the privacy of innocent people, stifles innovation, and risks the Internet as a forum for free and open expression,

It's a privileged escalation attack. On Windows you can have users with different privileges, and because of security weakness in the permissions of a folder, it allows a low-ranked user to act as a high-ranked user.

I'm very hopeful that not much will come of this.

It has this very loose term of 'intent to annoy' which encompasses a much greater area of speech than harassment and threat.

The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press.

All the search engines have created a honey pot of information about people and what they search for. It's a window into their personalities -- what they want, what they dream about. This information gets stored, and that becomes very tempting.

The law is different from the final versions of the bill in the House and Senate. It was a bill addressing a lot of other things, and this part was slipped in.

The main distinction is, with XCP, it was hiding itself so you wouldn't know that it was there.