2013-01-12.log

--- Log opened Sat Jan 12 00:00:28 2013
JayDuggerOh, my.00:00
@kanzurehttp://ia601205.us.archive.org/25/items/UsaV.AaronSwartz-CriminalDocument53/UsaV.AaronSwartz-CriminalDocument53.pdf00:02
JayDugger"Both MIT and JSTOR were required to expend significant resources to respond to Swartz's unlawful access to their systems"?00:06
JayDuggerDoes that sort of bullshit stand up in trial? Good enough for an indictment, apparently.00:06
JayDugger"damage affecting at least 10 protected computers?" wtf?00:07
superkuhFor the feds "damage" means you inconvenienced someone who was technically ignorant.00:09
JayDuggerHow does MIT count as technically ignorant?00:10
superkuh"Both MIT and JSTOR were required to expend significant resources to respond to Swartz's unlawful access to their systems"00:10
@kanzurehttps://github.com/aaronsw?tab=activity00:12
@kanzurewhat was most alarming to me about that document was that alec resnick and quinn norton squealed on him00:12
@kanzurehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504694000:12
@kanzurei've hung out with alec and i think i've met with quinn; i've certainly emailed with both of them before.00:13
@kanzurealso that alec had a partial fingerprint on the laptop.00:13
superkuhResisting a Grand Jury is hard.00:14
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@kanzurei haven't tried00:14
JayDuggerMay you never have the need.00:15
JayDuggerDid JSTOR actually block IP addresses as the document claims?00:17
JayDuggerDid they actually block all of MIT?00:18
@kanzurepublishers do that from time to time when something is going wrong00:18
JayDuggerSure, but did they?00:18
JayDuggerI can search it for myself, but do you remember if that happened?00:19
@kanzurewhat do you want? evidence like some ping timeouts?00:20
@kanzurewhen a publisher blocks a campus, nobody usually mentions it because not having access is almost the norm anyway..00:21
JayDuggerNo, that's fine. I imagined something like "I remember hearing that happened" or "I remember reading about it at the time."00:21
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JayDuggerIn which of the documents did you find the statements about Quinn and Resnick?00:34
@kanzurehttp://gnusha.org/logs/2012-09-15.log00:35
@kanzure"He posted what appeared to be a suicide note on his blog five years ago, and the police were called.It's still there, but he edited it to change the name to "Alex".http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying  "00:43
JayDuggerAll very sad news...00:53
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@kanzuregoogle-chrome crashed while bookmarking all tabs. so much for that!02:19
Sankyfirefox managed that pretty well; many many years ago before saving sessions I just bookmarked all tabs, then opened them all the next day02:24
@kanzureyep, i'm using bookmark all tabs as a poor man's session manager02:25
@kanzurethere's no reason all tabs shouldn't be stored anyway02:25
Sankyby the way, I'm looking to locate my old browser profiles and compile a full day-to-day browsing history in a readable format02:27
joshcryerPoliticians resist grand jury-style questioning on an alarming basis. The simple answer is "I don't know," or "I don't remember."02:27
Sankysomebody must have done that already02:27
ElixirVitaeI came here to bring new, but seems you are already on it.02:27
ElixirVitae*s/new/news02:27
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ElixirVitaeSanky, use FEBE for firefox.02:30
ElixirVitaeI suppose it can do that.02:30
ElixirVitaeNot sure though.02:30
Sankycool, iirc firefox used sqlite for everything though so I was just going to dig into that02:31
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HEx2holy fuck. </Aaron>09:09
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@kanzurehuh, will ware worked with him.10:02
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abetuskkanzure, you use brl-cad and not blender for modeling?11:06
@kanzurefor cad projects, i vastly prefer brlcad over blender11:07
@kanzurewhen i'm making movies, i use blender.11:07
@kanzurehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/22/academic-publishing-monopoly-challenged11:11
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@kanzurehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz/11:21
@kanzure"I haven’t seen Swartz since those early Reddit days but he would sometimes email me to correct mistakes in my Weblog. Sometimes the mistakes were typos."11:21
@kanzure"At other times the mistakes, in Swartz’s view, were mental. In response to my “Economy Recovery Plan” of November 2008, Swartz wrote “Wow, this article is so ignorant of basic economics it deserves another email.”"11:21
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@kanzureand he specified sbp as his executor (the guy who wrote phenny) http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity11:30
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@kanzurethe court documents from 2011-2012 show that aaronsw transferred his collection to an unidentified server in china, so.. you know. treasure hunt.11:58
@kanzurelost pirate treasure11:58
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@kanzureoh that makes much more sense. quinn was in a relationship with him. i always wondered why she was mentioned in the court proceedings.12:28
@kanzurehttp://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=64412:28
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@kanzureHumean: hello13:33
Humeanhowdy kanzure13:34
@kanzurewhat brings you this way?13:36
Humeanfound the channel in the log where you quote about inducements13:36
Humeanthought it sounds like a cool place to lurk13:36
Humeanhope that's ok13:36
@kanzureyep. see /topic etc. etc.13:37
juri_i enjoy lurking here. helps me keep my crazy ideas a little more in the realm of sane.13:38
Humeansounds about right13:38
browniesi'm just here for the glowing cats. i have dibs on the first one.13:39
chris_99hehe13:45
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@kanzure"Not only that but the actual trespassing charge was dropped. So it wasn't even part of the case."14:08
nmz787i thought quinn was a guy's name14:10
yashgarothI've seen both14:10
nmz787i almost thought he was gay for a sec14:10
@kanzurefenn used to live with quinn i think, maybe?14:19
@kanzureat langton i mean.14:19
@fennshe appears for a month every six months or so14:31
@fennand her orbiting satellite14:31
juri_https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/655433115:04
juri_the accademic papers you were hunting for.15:04
@kanzurenope, that's just one journal15:05
@kanzurejstor has many journals15:05
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nmz787is a tricorder just a video camera for life?15:14
@kanzuredamn, google chrome is crashing each time i save all tabs as bookmarks. i wonder what's wrong.15:14
nmz787like a neck chain security cam?15:14
joehotkanzure: chrome is supposed to save tabs on crash15:22
joehotunless youre not crashing15:22
joehotbut saving all tabs as bookmarks might be a reliable way to crash15:22
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eudoxiakanz15:23
eudoxiaif you just close the window the tabs will be automatically saved on the "recently closed" list15:23
eudoxiaso when you fire up chrome again there should be an entry labeled "n Tabs"15:23
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@fenn"I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available from aaronsw.com"15:43
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juri_if only licensing worked that way.15:47
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@fennkanzure: for what it's worth, quinn has told me not to tell her anything sensitive because of how many times she has been indicted16:13
@fenni thought we had some kind of law protecting journalists from revealing their sources16:14
@fenner, not indicted, subpoenaed (bleh)16:16
yashgarothyeah it's a lot easier to catch people when they think they won't get caught16:16
nmz787how do i line count for whole dir?16:23
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@fennnmz787: ls | wc -l ?16:26
@fennor cat * | wc -l16:26
@fenn"I frequently have a mad desire to move to wooden shack and become a Debian developer. Imagine my delight when I discovered that one of my favourite Debian developers really does live in a cabin in the woods. Is ending up in a shack really that bad, if you never have to feel lonely?"16:36
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nmz787kanzure: none of those portland contacts responded to my email to them16:52
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AlonzoTGI'm a stalkee?!?!?!?17:17
@kanzureeudoxia: i don't want tabs to be saved as a session. when chrome starts i only want one window with no tabs.17:24
@kanzurefenn: yes, that's worth something, thanks for letting me know17:24
@kanzurealso, i met a debian developer in a shack once when i went to canada.17:25
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nmz787kanzure: where is the most recent carson price plot?17:42
nmz787carlson*17:42
@kanzurenmz787: somewhere in http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/nucleic/17:44
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strangewarphaha, someone just told me to stop associating with anyone who was friends with Aaron Swartz, so they don't frame me for hacking19:00
strangewarpthe people who were his friends, I mean19:01
strangewarpthat is slightly ludicrous. why do I know so many clueless people19:01
strangewarpoh whoops I just realized I phrased that badly. The person is afraid Swartz's friends would frame me for something, because they're a clueless person.19:02
strangewarpand I thought that was ridiculous.19:03
@kanzureoh right, i bet most people think he was a dangerous hax0r19:46
strangewarpseems that way19:46
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@kanzurehaha mit blew up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504968021:32
yashgaroth"the downfall of MIT as an amazing place, outside bio/biotech" ehhhh21:34
@kanzurethe only place at mit i keep hearing about is csail or cba21:37
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ThomasEgignachtiii21:56
ThomasEgiwrong tab21:56
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@kanzureah yes a religion for my inner archivist http://kopimism.org/ (blah blah blah, copy all the bytes)23:29
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joshcryerI suspect Aaron's death will result in some folks taking what he did to a super high level and we'll the the freed archive we've been wanting.23:34
@kanzurejstor has only a small fraction of everything though23:35
@kanzurei guess you didn't say jstor23:35
@kanzureso okay23:35
* joshcryer pats kanzure on the head23:36
joehoti suspect they would use that as evidence that anyone supporting the cause is a terrorist23:36
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joshcryerI must admit that the attention span of hacktivists could be too short for them to do it since we're talking a pretty decent sized effort. It's a nice thought in any event...23:37
@kanzurewell, we were working on a thing to do that for a while23:37
@kanzureuntil people in here stopped contributing23:37
@kanzurenext version will involve mobile proxies23:38
joshcryerI've mused about it here before. But I wouldn't do something like that with collaborators.23:39
@kanzureit's a pretty big task23:39
@kanzureto get all the metadata and papers on your own would be fairly hard to pull off23:39
@kanzureabout 200 different publishers, so you'd need to write scrapers for each of those23:40
@kanzureand ultimately you're grabbing 50 million articles, so you need a few tens of terabytes to toss around (not that big a deal)23:40
@kanzureand then you need to do this all anonymously without tipping your hand.. this part is more difficult.23:40
joshcryerFair enough.23:40
@kanzurethe other problem is that as you add contributors to that operation you increase the likelihood of a privacy violation almost geometrically with each new member23:40
joshcryerThat is my concern right there.23:41
@kanzureor perhaps worse than geometrically23:41
@kanzurei suppose it should be possible for a single person to do23:42
joehotwhat if everyone were a contributor23:42
@kanzurewell you would have to tell them the domain name that the server is running on23:42
@kanzureand then someone could trace that back to whoever registered it, or who is accessing it, etc.23:42
@kanzureor not even a domain name, of course23:43
joshcryerI think you'd want a distributed searchable application which would be the most difficult part. It could run on the mobile proxies that you'd have installed and whose use for scraping is pretty much over with.23:44
@kanzurewhy is distributed searching important?23:44
@kanzurejust release it all at once23:44
joshcryerSure, you could drop a torrent somewhere.23:45
@kanzurei don't see what distributed searching has to do with it though23:46
@kanzuremaybe i'm just bad at web development?23:46
joshcryerI think it would be useful.23:46
joshcryerObviously a central website can be taken down and a torrent of that size is not going to be easy to seed and a central server can be raided.23:47
@kanzureand "distributed search" is .. i just don't see why you're talking about search. who cares? just grab it all.23:49
joshcryerI guess I'm appealing to an inner desire for something to have more function than simply an archive.23:51
@kanzureah. well. someone else should take the data and then make applications on top of it.23:52
@kanzurebut the important thing is the data itself first.23:52
joshcryerTrue enough.23:52
joshcryerI need a good Canadian proxy.23:56
joshcryerI miss the days of the mid 90s where you could get a good SOCKS proxy trivally.23:56
joshcryer(I'm too cheap to pay for VPN)23:57
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