Grab bag: Cyberwar, MBTA are morons, free licenses upheld

Peter Holsapple talks about the difference between cutting demos for the dBs in the early 80s and doing it with ProTools today.

Precedent setting move that interprets “free licenses” as setting conditions on the use of copyrighted work–if you violate the conditions, you’re guilty of infringement. Clear and unambiguous and very important.

That’s a sad day.

The confidential recommendations to the MBTA made public. If there were any doubt of the MIT students’ intentions, this paper should clearly show that they were trying to help.

Not only does the MBTA not understand security or the First Amendment, they published the secret that the MIT researchers were trying to help them to keep.

An interesting alternative to grilled pizza.

“The idea of there being these two separate things has to be forced away from our thinking. They are one team, which produce one product. Stick their desks together and see what happens.”

I wonder what the looming prospect of “real” cyberwar does to responsible disclosure and other cherished security research principles.