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Entries from February 2017.

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+ Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour? +
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+ 21st February 2017 +
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I just noticed +the +new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment list +ECMA-376 +/ 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.

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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 +officeotron OOXML +validator, 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.

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+ Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll) +
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+ 13th February 2017 +
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A few days ago, we received the ruling from +my +day in court. 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 +donate to the +NUUG defense fund.

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The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in +Norwegian from +the NUUG +blog. This also include +the +ruling itself.

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A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll @@ -44,7 +125,7 @@ Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.

The case at hand 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 the official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority which require a @@ -96,7 +177,7 @@ the NUUG defense fund. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are 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.

+happens the money will be put to good use.

If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out the blog @@ -122,12 +203,72 @@ on both sides.

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