{"id":707,"date":"2008-12-16T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=707"},"modified":"2009-04-14T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:21:24","slug":"does-this-mean-i-have-to-pay-attention-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/12\/does-this-mean-i-have-to-pay-attention-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this mean I have to pay attention now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/15\/australian-court-rul.html\">Disturbing news from boingboing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Australian court has ruled that a posting on someone&#8217;s Facebook page can serve as legal notice. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I don&#8217;t think Facebook has reached the status of local paper yet. And in my brief experience with it (I joined last month) I don&#8217;t think it ever will. <\/p>\n<p>I find it disturbing that the courts would start looking at the Internet, and an Internet based service, as a non-ephemeral institution. The Internet has only been a commercial entity for, what, 15 years? It has so many gaping security holes in it that I have a hard time conceiving why a judge would consider any non-encrypted Internet transaction to have legal standing.&nbsp; And it would have to be encrypted in a particularly onerous method (physically meet to pass keys).&nbsp; Given that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/the_dns_vulnera.html\">major hack found recently<\/a> had the ability to strip all secured transactions of their security and that it has been in the Internet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/people\/magazine\/16-12\/ff_kaminsky?currentPage=all\">DNS code from the beginning<\/a> gives one pause about trusting anything on the &#8216;net in our lifetimes. And <a href=\"http:\/\/searchnetworking.techtarget.com\/news\/article\/0,289142,sid7_gci1338680,00.html\">10% of the servers out there<\/a> haven&#8217;t implemented the patch.<\/p>\n<p>What else is hiding in the basement code, waiting to be exploited? <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like thinking all those AAA rated bonds based on mortgages are actually worth something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disturbing news from boingboing: An Australian court has ruled that a posting on someone&#8217;s Facebook page can serve as legal notice. You know, I don&#8217;t think Facebook has reached the status of local paper yet. And in my brief experience with it (I joined last month) I don&#8217;t think it ever will. I find it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/12\/does-this-mean-i-have-to-pay-attention-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does this mean I have to pay attention now?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-bp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}