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by mlissner 9mo ago
We’re familiar with vulnerability disclosure philosophies, but what if the problem can’t be fixed because there’s no forward secrecy for the hundreds of millions of documents that are already out there? It’s tricky stuff and we have limited
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by mlissner 9mo ago
It’s a fine line. Most redactions are for the good, to protect someone or something. For example even in the Epstein files, where some redactions are being abused, most redactions are protecting victims. If there’s a way to undo huge amount
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by mlissner 9mo ago
Really depends on the length and predictability of the redaction, but yes. If it's short and contextually it's only likely to be either "yes" or "no", you've got it. If it's longer and could contain a
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by mlissner 9mo ago
No, we worked with researchers that developed that kind of system, but didn't broadcast our work b/c the research was too sensitive. Seems the cat is out the bag now though. I think the combination of AI and font-metrics is going
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by mlissner 9mo ago
Cool to see this here. It’s funny because we do so many huge, complex, multiyear projects at Free Law Project, but this is the most viral any of our work has ever gone! Anyway, I made X-ray to analyze the millions of documents we have in C
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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser(lil.law.harvard.edu)
237 points by mlissner 11mo ago|62 comments
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by mlissner 11mo ago
OK, this is really neat: - S3 is really cheap static storage for files. - DuckDB is a database that uses S3 for its storage. - WASM lets you run binary (non-JS) code in your browser. - DuckDB-Wasm allows you to run a database in your browse
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Firefox Profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse(blog.mozilla.org)
4 points by mlissner 11mo ago|1 comments
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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring "basic cybersecurity"(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mlissner 1y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 1y ago
Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally whe
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by mlissner 1y ago
OK, here's the first thing popping up in court about this. There's a motion to unseal search warrants filed by a security researcher at Stanford that was just filed: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/698340
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by mlissner 1y ago
I run CourtListener.com, which aggregates Pacer data. So far nothing there, but I created an alert for his name, and I’ll post here and to Dan Goodin (the author of the article) if anything pops up.
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by mlissner 2y ago
Just for the record, they are being sued to oblivion: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66607916/debt-cleanse-g... You'd have to go study the case, but it's a class action case, so it'll hurt if
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Mozilla adding AI features to Firefox nightly(blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
3 points by mlissner 2y ago|1 comments
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by mlissner 2y ago
Wow, funny to see this here. I'm the director of Free Law Project. Juriscraper is a project we use to scrape and parse millions of court records. I'll be happy to answer any questions folks have about it. It's on version 2.6.
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by mlissner 3y ago
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS Project names: - Free Law Project - RECAP Extension - CourtListener.com - Bots.law Repos: - https://github.com/freelawproject/courtlistener - https://github.com/freelawproject/re
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by mlissner 3y ago
Lots. You can follow here: https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket/new/?pacer_case_i... (I run CourtListener.)
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by mlissner 3y ago
I run CourtListener. Usually the problem is the opposite: It’s too hard to get things OUT of Google.
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by mlissner 3y ago
Hi HN. I'm the director of Free Law Project, the org that's behind this, RECAP, and CourtListener.com. The idea of this project is to create topic-based bots that follow certain areas of the law so that folks can access the raw da
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Twitter/Mastodon Bot from the Verge/Free Law Project to Follow Tech Cases(theverge.com)
6 points by mlissner 3y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia: Vector 2022(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by mlissner 4y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 4y ago
The whole case is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631003/securities-and... And if you want to get free email updates as it develops, you can sign up here: https://www.courtlistener.com&#x2F
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Why E-Bikes Could Change Everything – Sierra Club(sierraclub.org)
26 points by mlissner 4y ago|12 comments
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by mlissner 4y ago
At CourtListener we send thousands of emails each day. We recently migrated to AWS SES and learned a ton of lessons beyond DMARC/SPF/etc. Getting all of those parts right is important, but you also have to handle bounces, down rec
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Building a robust email system for CourtListener Alerts and Emails(free.law)
2 points by mlissner 4y ago|1 comments
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by mlissner 4y ago
This uses AWS's Textract service, but if you're doing a LOT of extraction, that gets pretty expensive pretty quickly. We do thousands of pages daily on CourtListener.com and created an open source microservice for this purpose. It
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Others default to Signal, not SMS, after uninstall(github.com)
2 points by mlissner 4y ago|1 comments
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by mlissner 4y ago
This bug means that when somebody uninstalls Signal (or an iPhone disables it for lack of use), people sending messages never learn that the message didn't go through. As a result: "I just missed out on placing an offer on a h
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by mlissner 4y ago
I'm the director of Free Law Project, the non-profit org that runs CourtListener. If anybody wants to get email or RSS alerts for this case, you can set them up here: https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket&#x2F
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by mlissner 5y ago
My organization built a similar tool that can find bad redactions caused when people just use a black rectangle on top of text in PDFs: https://free.law/projects/x-ray Very fun project. Lots of problems out there.

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