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Bradley and
href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen
welcome special co-presenter and guest,
href="https://torekeland.com/author/aaron">Aaron Williamson, to discuss
the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main
segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and
Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA
Supreme Court case.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
- Aaron brought up a
href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2">message
forwarded to the OpenBSD developers list by
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt">Theo de
Raadt. This story has been
href="http://www.itworld.com/open-source/130820/openbsdfbi-allegations-denied-named-participant">covered
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025767-281.html">widely
href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd">online.
(02:50) - Aaron mentioned that
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/12/can-open-source-be-trusted/index.htm">Glyn
Moody wrote a blog post about what issues about “Open
Source” security this raises. (04:06) - Bradley mentioned the gnuftp/Savannah site crack that occurred in
2003 and its security implications. Those seeking more information on
this can read
href="http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/08/13/1530239.shtml?tid=117&tid=126&tid=172&tid=99">the
slashdot coverage, Savannah
href="http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2749">forum
href="http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2752">posts,
the CERT
advisory and even
href="http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README">the missing files still
on the GNU FTP site. (05:21) - Bradley again mentioned
href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html">Thompson's hack
which he loves to mention when security issues come up (06:26). - Karen mentioned
href="http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/transparent-medical-devices.html">SFLC's
medical devices paper, Killed by Code: Software Transparency in
Implantable Medical Devices, which she loves to mention. (08:23) - Bradley mentioned the
href="http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571">Debian/Ubuntu
OpenSSL bug that occurred in mid-2008, which was
href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212&from=rss">widely
discussed
href="http://advogato.org/person/branden/diary/5.html">online. (10:18) - Bradley mentioned a case in 2000 where the
href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/12/40541">FBI was
able to open a mobster's PGP mail merely by getting his
passphrase. (12:49) - Bradley offers an even-money bet that there are no FBI-inserted
bugs in OpenBSD. (13:46)
Segment 1 (14:18)
- The canonical page on Wikipedia for
what Karen and Bradley are on FaiF says they are
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenter">presenters, rather than
hosts. (15:06) - Aaron and Karen's organization, the
href="http://softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center,
href="http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/dec/06/sflc-files-amicus-brief-in-seb/">announced
that they filed an
href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/sflc-seb-amicus.pdf">amicus
brief in the
href="http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/09-1099.pdf">Global-Tech
Appliances v. SEB case. (16:30) - Despite the beliefs of a Jeopardy! contestant last
month, “Maria” is
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor">Sonia
Sotomayor's middle name.
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia">Antonin Scalia's
middle name is “Gregory” (17:20) - Bradley again reviewed the issues of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin#Comparison_with_classical_Latin">classical
vs. church pronunciations. (19:20) - Bradley asked Aaron if what was being sold in this case was
equivalent to the
href="http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Cornballer">Cornballer
as introduced on the television show,
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)">Arrested
Development. (20:30) - Bradley mentioned that on
href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/nov/09/0x02/">FaiF 0x02, they
discussed the issue of how higher courts consider issues of law more
than the detailed facts of the case. (23:30) - RMS's speech, The Danger of Software Patents, is
available as a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/danger-of-software-patents.html">transcript
and
href="http://www.archive.org/details/Stallman_Danger_of_Software_Patents">audio
(ogg)
(35:22) - Aaron mentioned
href="http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/09-10/10-6_PetitionerAmCuNewEgg.pdf">Newegg's
brief, which is a reseller. (40:50) - Aaron mentioned the
href="http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/global-tech-appliances-inc-v-seb-s-a/">SCOTUS
blog summary which included links to other amici
briefs. (41:01) - Bradley referenced Don's staff answer to their boss, Don, in the
href="http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/k/kids-in-the-hall-brain-candy-script.html">Kids
in the Hall movie, Brain Candy. (45:57)
Final (54:16)
- Aaron, Karen and Bradley are discussing the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_and_Stripes_Forever#Lyrics">alternative
lyrics to the Stars and Stripes Forever. (54:20)
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