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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2017</title>
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  10                 <title>Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I just noticed
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing&quot;&gt;the
  16 new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment&lt;/a&gt; list
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm&quot;&gt;ECMA-376&lt;/a&gt;
  18 / ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term
  19 storage.  Luckily such files will only be accepted based on
  20 pre-approval from the National Archive.  Allowing OOXML files to be
  21 used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we
  22 forget that there are plenty of ways for a &quot;valid&quot; OOXML document to
  23 have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which
  24 lead to a question and an idea.&lt;/p&gt;
  25
  26 &lt;p&gt;Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such
  27 undefined behaviour?  It would be useful for the National Archive (and
  28 anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined)
  29 to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of
  30 OOXML.  I&#39;m aware of the
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/&quot;&gt;officeotron OOXML
  32 validator&lt;/a&gt;, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will
  33 report use of undefined behaviour.  Are there other similar tools
  34 available?  Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.&lt;/p&gt;
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  39                 <title>Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll)</title>
  40                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
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  42                 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
  43                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, we received the ruling from
  44 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html&quot;&gt;my
  45 day in court&lt;/a&gt;.  The case in question is a challenge of the seizure
  46 of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no.  The ruling simply did not mention
  47 most of our arguments, and seemed to take everything ØKOKRIM said at
  48 face value, ignoring our demonstration and explanations.  But it is
  49 hard to tell for sure, as we still have not seen most of the documents
  50 in the case and thus were unprepared and unable to contradict several
  51 of the claims made in court by the opposition.  We are considering an
  52 appeal, but it is partly a question of funding, as it is costing us
  53 quite a bit to pay for our lawyer.  If you want to help, please
  54 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to the
  55 NUUG defense fund&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  56
  57 &lt;p&gt;The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in
  58 Norwegian from
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the NUUG
  60 blog&lt;/a&gt;.  This also include
  61 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/Avslag_etter_rettslig_h_ring_om_DNS_beslaget___vurderer_veien_videre.shtml&quot;&gt;the
  62 ruling itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  67                 <title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
  68                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html</link>
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  70                 <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
  71                 <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  72
  73 &lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
  74 representing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the member association
  75 NUUG&lt;/a&gt;, alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;the member
  76 association EFN&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imc.no&quot;&gt;the DNS registrar
  77 IMC&lt;/a&gt;, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no.  It
  78 was interesting to sit in a court of law for the first time in my
  79 life.  Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
  80 Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
  81 Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.&lt;/p&gt;
  82
  83 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale&quot;&gt;The
  84 case at hand&lt;/a&gt; is that the Norwegian National Authority for
  85 Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
  86 Økokrim) decided on their own, to seize a DNS domain early last
  87 year, without following
  88 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12&quot;&gt;the
  89 official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority&lt;/a&gt; which require a
  90 court decision.  The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
  91 Time.  And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal
  92 and illegal applications.  Popcorn Time is a client combining
  93 searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with
  94 downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the
  95 downloaded content on screen.  It can be used illegally if it is used
  96 to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can
  97 also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the
  98 millions of movies
  99 &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/movies&quot;&gt;available from the
 100 Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; or the collection
 101 &lt;a href=&quot;http://vodo.net/films/&quot;&gt;available from Vodo&lt;/a&gt;.  We created
 102 &lt;a href=&quot;magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&amp;dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&quot;&gt;a
 103 video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time&lt;/a&gt; and played it in
 104 Court.  It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.&lt;/p&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;p&gt;I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court.  The
 107 government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
 108 ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all.  We will
 109 know in two weeks time.  Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as
 110 the Government have the upper hand here with more knowledge about the
 111 case, better training in handling criminal law and in general higher
 112 standing in the courts than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member
 113 associations.  It is expensive to be right also in Norway.  So far the
 114 case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-.  To help fund the case, NUUG
 115 and EFN have asked for donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25
 116 000,- so far.  Given the presentation from the Government, I expect
 117 the government to appeal if the case go our way.  And if the case do
 118 not go our way, I hope we have enough funding to appeal.&lt;/p&gt;
 119
 120 &lt;p&gt;From the other side came two people from Økokrim.  On the benches,
 121 appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
 122 from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not
 123 quite sure who was.  Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses
 124 from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
 125 they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
 126 translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway.  All
 127 seven appeared to know each other.  Good to see the case is take
 128 seriously.&lt;/p&gt;
 129
 130 &lt;p&gt;If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
 131 domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time
 132 technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
 133 too &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to
 134 the NUUG defense fund&lt;/a&gt;.  Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
 135 available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
 136 unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
 137 standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
 138 happens the money will be put to good use.&lt;/p&gt;
 139
 140 &lt;p&gt;If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
 141 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the blog
 142 posts from NUUG covering the case&lt;/a&gt;.  They cover the legal arguments
 143 on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;
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