Tag Archives: dmca

Bono is a complete moron.

Yeah, that Bono.  This has nothing to do with his music which is, generally speaking, decent.  No, my assertion is based on comments he made in the New York Times (which I first saw on Ars Technica). I have some specific problems with Bono’s statements, so I’m going to tackle them one by one. the… Read More »

Texas Instruments shenanigans

A group of enterprising TI calculator programmers have taken it upon themselves to factor the 512-bit RSA keys used by TI to allow applications (and OS updates) to run on TI calculators.  (For those of you who aren’t cryptographers: basically it lets TI decide what can run on the calculator and what can’t.) In response,… Read More »