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In today's Le Monde there is a useful five-part infographic showing how name to address resolution works, from the end user associating his or her endpoint device, e.g., a browser, with a file shareing resource, e.g., Megaupload.com, and how the FBI interposed on the name to resource mapping, preventing such associations. The amount of French poor Francophobes must read to understand the sequence of wire frame diagrams is limited (and Google does translate for those that need help). See Comment le FBI a-t-il bloqué Megaupload ?.

In updates to this post I'll expand on the aspects I think interesting.

First, while the DoJ sites are servicing the LOIC loads, a copy of the indictment can be found here: MegaUpload.pdf.

Second, to quote from the NYTimes piece to get to a quote from GW Law's Orin Kerr

The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they were operating in bad faith.

"The government hopes to use their private words against them," Mr. Kerr said. "This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites."

See 17 USC 512(c)(1)(A) for the significance.

Update 1:
A writer for the LA Times provides an interesting view in http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2012/01/copyrights-feds-push-novel-theories-in-megaupload-case.html.

The Meagupload case has generated a response, LOIC has been deployed. The collective's targeteers have selected the US DoJ and other high-value targets of the public facing (non-operational) US critical infrastructure, effecting a reduction of efficacy of the USG's direct messaging outlets, and the public facing critical infrastructure of Universal and other major political contributors to the SOPA/PIPA/... copy suppression bills.

I wrote Cheryl Leeman, the occasional Mayor of Portland (prior to direct elections, when it was a rotating "honor"), and permanent sole Republican on the City Council, and Olympia's District One Constituency Office goto person, twice that SOPA and PIPA were simply bad policy bills and Olympia should revise her support for the bills as written (by the record label PACs). Without effect.

I didn't bother with Susan's contact, I prefer that whoever runs against her has this issue -- shareholders in artist-abusing labels and their contributions are more important to the incumbent than Mainers and their use of the net to be informed and to create and share their cultural works. Incumbent hates teh netz.

The sound of rain diminished before dawn. Jonah went back to sleep and we awoke to snow. I spent the previous evening chasing down the crypto lib dependencies in openssl and kerberos to get warning free linker output when building bind9.9.0rc1. With that installed on ns{0,1}.wampumpeag.net, this morning's chores are cleaning up zone files. Jonah's replacement camera, a cisco Flip, the first (I hope, oh holy UPS brown shorted dieties) of three warranty covered exchanges of the data-dead for the data-quick. He spent part of yesterday's skate time filming the VHS tapes at the Cass Park rink. His skating has vastly improved, and he fit right in with the Fall Creek Elementary kids, skating with his sister Kezzie and her friends.

This is the end of the second week of Jonah-at-home, his autism program at the middle school having utterly melted down before the break and the head teacher, only five months on the job, abruptly resigning. As in prior IEP go-arounds, my requests for instrumental music in the form of guitar, for music generally in the form of a chorus or music appreciation class, and for any kind of art were refused. New York doesn't cover "art therapy", and a disabled student who wants to do art work is, apparently, incapable of receiving art education services other than in a art therapy context. I suppose art and music are only for the "normal" students.

The purpose is to discuss the need for an antitrust or competition policy for the IETF. If the consensus is to create one, then the content of that policy will be discussed as well.

It used to be that just moving a multi-vendor activity to the IETF was sufficient to immunize the parties from Sherman Act liabilities. Perhaps this is no longer sufficient, though given the absence of prosecution(s) by the US Department of Justice, the source of liability may be in a jurisdiction other than the United States.

In the last primary cycle the Obots ran with scissors to the tune that any criticism of their guy was racist and made by racists.

In the current primary cycle Meg Carpentier is arguing that concerns about militarism (a third war in a decade is possible) and continuation of {infinite detention, pervasive wiretap, ...} may only be properly brought by those directly affected, and any who view these as central to the general election test are ... bi-fringe kooks.

Hmm. So only soldiers vote on wars, and only Communists, Made Men and Union organizers vote on 4th Amendment breeches. How ... unusual.

While the price of memory (cache, primary, and secondary), processing, and bandwidths (intra-system fabric and inter-system connect) follow Moore's Law's curve downwards, the Internet Society (ISOC), through its contractual entity, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) will increase it's prices on July 1st by 0.49 USD per domain per year. This follows Verisign's increase in it's .com and .net prices on January 1, 2012 by 0.51USD for .com and 0.46 USD for .net.

These increases in "consumer protection price caps" were approved by the ICANN Board, creating an additional $50m in profit (there are no increased costs, in fact, per-unit registry costs are declining, per Moore, so the profit is understated) for the incumbent for-profit monopoly operator Verisign, and the sole entity (ISOC+Afilias) to which ICANN has made a redelegation as a result of an open, competitive, bidding for renewal of a USG originated government interest contract.

Find any "public interest" in padding the tab, one hundred million times, each year, for as long as this network and its current resources to names mechanism lasts?

Reporters sans frontières Pays sous surveillance -- Bélarus

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Mail addressed to "loyal Stratfor clients" (I'm on some I-once-filled-out-a-form-@-stratfor list) offering all their premium content for free, meanwhile they're "working to get our website secure and back up and running again".

The hoot was this line:
We would like to hear from our loyal client base as to our handling of the recent intrusion by those deranged, sexually deviant criminal hacker terrorist masterminds.

My assumption is that the mail is forged, as it appears deranged.