30 Quotes by Kurt Opsahl

The California Court of Appeals has a long history of protecting freedom of the press. We're hopeful they'll continue to do so.

That was a big win for free speech.

This is not a surprising result. It brings into question whether this is really the best use of the state's resources to constantly put up these clearly unconstitutional laws, only to have them challenged and thrown out. It does seem to be one in this series of law passes, gets challenged, gets struck down. Rinse, lather, repeat.

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

A tech mandate requiring backdoors in the Internet endangers the privacy of innocent people, stifles innovation, and risks the Internet as a forum for free and open expression,

It's a privileged escalation attack. On Windows you can have users with different privileges, and because of security weakness in the permissions of a folder, it allows a low-ranked user to act as a high-ranked user.

I'm very hopeful that not much will come of this.

It has this very loose term of 'intent to annoy' which encompasses a much greater area of speech than harassment and threat.

The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press.