This isn't America. They don't have to prove (in a court of law) that he wrote it. Their accusation is sufficient. The facebook page has his name on it, "everybody knows" that he wrote it.
India has the resources to provide electricity to every village. The problem is that politicians have created a system where there is little or no incentive to do so.
Electricity is a heavily regulated sector. Power producers cannot charge a fair price for electricity, instead they are required to comply with a complex pricing structure that forces them to give electricity free to some people, and below cost price to many others and recover the loss from a very small percentage of their customers who pay several times the fair market price.
Villagers are one of the categories of people who get electricity free (or subsidized, in some states). This is why nobody wants to bear the expense of running power lines to the villages.
Right, in US, the government will never force anyone to perform unethical work. That's an interesting assumption.
What if a skilled programmer in North Korea volunteers to perform unethical work?
What if a skilled programmer in US volunteers to perform unethical work?
What if "ethics" simply depends on your country of origin?
To be honest, what you and the grandparent post should be saying is that North Korea is the enemy, and to help the enemy in any way is "bad". Why pretend that you're helping the people of North Korea by not helping the people of North Korea so they can't help their country?
NK is not an enemy in the same way Iran might be. NK is a Stalinist regime in 2015.
>Right, in US, the government will never force anyone to perform unethical work. That's an interesting assumption.
I think it's a reasonable assumption. You can't be forced to join the military (unless there's a draft) or an intelligence agency, and if you work for one, you can't be forced to do something you don't want to do; you can just quit. They can threaten you with prosecution if you leak anything, but they can't make you do something you don't want to.
In NK you can both be forced to work for an organization and you can be forced to do specific tasks you may not want to do, at risk of torture or death.
>What if "ethics" simply depends on your country of origin?
That is true of course. And no doubt there are going to be NK programmers who are ethical and do nothing but help their populace. Obviously many US programmers are performing unethical tasks daily as well. But again, in the US these will almost always be voluntary actions.
I think educating NK citizens is a perfectly good idea, just there are certain topics that perhaps they should not be taught, due to their oppressive and Machiavellian regime.
It's honestly sad that you picked Stuxnet, an attack that did no appreciable harm to human lives, as opposed to the entire arsenal of munitions available to the Joint Armed Forces.
We have invented, but more importantly manufactured, a lot of pretty fucking effective weaponry.
Google cannot afford the legal liability of taking decisions on whether a DMCA notice is valid or invalid.
They will take down everything specified in every DMCA notice even if it is obviously bogus, because not doing so opens them up to a lawsuit. (a lawsuit alleging malafide intentions or a lawsuit for harm if they should make a mistake in deciding which part of the DMCA notice to honor and which to ignore.)
It is up to the harmed party (the owner of whatever was taken down) to challenge the DMCA takedown in a court. Once you win in court, Google will restore whatever was removed.
You only have to send a counternotice and the content is restored after 10 business days. With most companies, you can just send a properly worded e-mail. Others, like Google, have a web form you fill in. The DMCA never forces content in dispute to remain offline indefinitely even if you have zero resources; the complaining party has to go to court to make that happen.
10 business days could be a long time if your company is in the middle of a launch or other time sensitive period, and that is 10 days after you notice: I assume they won't contact you (how would thy know who to contact and how with any reliability?) to say "we've de-listed these sites, you might want to look into if you need to respond". This could be used to damage competitors, or in this case to accidentally damage random unrelated people/companies.
YouTube got an interesting DMCA takedown request back in the day: it was issued by the Chinese government at the time of the Beijing Olympics. The details escape me but the title of the video was something like "Olympic Gymnastics Beijing" or some other searchbait/clickbait, with a plausible-looking thumbnail, but the video itself was a super-critical video directed at the Chinese government. China issued a bad-faith DMCA takedown on the grounds that they are the only authorized distributors of what the video claimed it was.
IIRC YouTube refused to block the site for this very reason; the "10 days later" would have ruined the clickbait purpose of the video as the event would have been well over and actual legitimate outlets for its content would have sprouted up.
I just put a few of those "Adam" URLs into Google Search and they show up in the results. The usual "some results have been removed due to DMCA" notice is not there either, so I think they haven't removed them - or did, and then put them back.
It is up to the harmed party (the owner of whatever was taken down) to challenge the DMCA takedown in a court. Once you win in court, Google will restore whatever was removed.
I doubt anyone has gone to court over the Adam URLs either. Some of those are personal pages (ironically enough, including a law professor: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/levitin-adam-j.cfm ) and it doesn't seem like whoever is responsible for them would even know that they were listed in a DMCA notice.
I'm on the phone so I won't google, but this is a very old story and if you go to the guy's website, he has a writeup of exactly how he did it. (and yes, the LEDs are hacked, they contain another hidden component)
So, indeed. Off on the details though, he's managed to sandwich the whole RF generator into that switch package. Mad props and soldering skills way beyond anything I could ever do.
cryptbin and snipt are blocked here (Vodafone network).
I presume all the major ISPs have implemented the bans.
I think you should not have commented if you knew that your ISP doesn't care to enforce government ordered bans (I know some small ISPs can't afford the hardware to implement URL blocking.).
> Something about this article rubs me the wrong way
Indeed. While I agree about the importance of discipline and safety in the cockpit, this article is slimy. This journalist gives off a mega sleazeball vibe.
