<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <item>
+ <title>Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I just noticed
+<a href="http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing">the
+new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment</a> list
+<a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm">ECMA-376</a>
+/ ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term
+storage. Luckily such files will only be accepted based on
+pre-approval from the National Archive. Allowing OOXML files to be
+used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we
+forget that there are plenty of ways for a "valid" OOXML document to
+have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which
+lead to a question and an idea.</p>
+
+<p>Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such
+undefined behaviour? It would be useful for the National Archive (and
+anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined)
+to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of
+OOXML. I'm aware of the
+<a href="https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/">officeotron OOXML
+validator</a>, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will
+report use of undefined behaviour. Are there other similar tools
+available? Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few days ago, we received the ruling from
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html">my
+day in court</a>. The case in question is a challenge of the seizure
+of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no. The ruling simply did not mention
+most of our arguments, and seemed to take everything ØKOKRIM said at
+face value, ignoring our demonstration and explanations. But it is
+hard to tell for sure, as we still have not seen most of the documents
+in the case and thus were unprepared and unable to contradict several
+of the claims made in court by the opposition. We are considering an
+appeal, but it is partly a question of funding, as it is costing us
+quite a bit to pay for our lawyer. If you want to help, please
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to the
+NUUG defense fund</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in
+Norwegian from
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the NUUG
+blog</a>. This also include
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/Avslag_etter_rettslig_h_ring_om_DNS_beslaget___vurderer_veien_videre.shtml">the
+ruling itself</a>.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html</link>
<p><a href="http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale">The
case at hand</a> is that the Norwegian National Authority for
Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
-Økokrim) decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last
+Økokrim) decided on their own, to seize a DNS domain early last
year, without following
<a href="https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12">the
official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority</a> which require a
<p>I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court. The
government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
-ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all.
-Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as the Government have the
-upper hand here with more knowledge about the case, better training in
-handling criminal law and in general higher standing in the courts
-than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member associations. It is
-expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the case have cost more
-than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG and EFN have asked for
-donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25 000,- so far. Given
-the presentation from the Government, I expect the government to
-appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do not go our way, I
-hope we have enough funding to appeal.</p>
+ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all. We will
+know in two weeks time. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as
+the Government have the upper hand here with more knowledge about the
+case, better training in handling criminal law and in general higher
+standing in the courts than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member
+associations. It is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
+case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG
+and EFN have asked for donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25
+000,- so far. Given the presentation from the Government, I expect
+the government to appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do
+not go our way, I hope we have enough funding to appeal.</p>
<p>From the other side came two people from Økokrim. On the benches,
appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway. All
-seven appeared to know each other. Good to see they take the case
+seven appeared to know each other. Good to see the case is take
seriously.</p>
<p>If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
-happen the money will be put to good use.</p>
+happens the money will be put to good use.</p>
<p>If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the blog
projects / homepage.git / blobdiff