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Using technology to thwart the government
Convicted movie thief Scott McCausland is prohibited from using Ubuntu because authorities are unable to monitor the system.
McCausland had to agree to have his internet usage monitored as part of a 2005 conviction into movie pirating. But US authorities only have such software for Windows and McCausland is running Ubuntu.
The convicted movie thief seems ready to take his case to court again. Because he agreed to be monitored, but the ruling didn't say anything about him being required to run Windows exclusively.
The Department of Justice could easily solve this and any future issues by developing an appliance that eardrops on the network connection instead of relying on software. Just prohibit him to encrypting his network traffic and use a proxy server, and you're set.
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