I think the main point of the argument is that you should not upload other people’s code to GitHub. Whether you upload your own code is your choice to make. Same goes with uploading to YouTube. You should not upload an entire film to YouTube if you do not have the right to distribute the film
The huge difference being that you do have the right to upload to GitHub if the code is released under an OSS license. If a project asks you nicely not to it would be equally nice to honor that, but there is no legal obligation to do so. Putting a copyrighted movie on Youtube to which you have no distribution rights is comparing apples to oranges and not the same thing.
> you do have the right to upload to GitHub if the code is released under an OSS license
This assumes that uploading to github does not involve granting other rights to M$ that would violate the original license, such as attribution or copyright.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. If MS chooses to violate the original license that is between the original author and MS. You as the uploader do not and cannot grant rights to MS which you did not receive in the first place. You upload the code under its original license and if MS does not honor the license that is not on you. Not defending MS here in any way, btw, I do firmly believe in opt-out.
This is a feature the Netherlands police actually uses to track phone locations.
It’s possible to send a “silent sms” to a handset and by doing so you can discover where the receiving handset is located. This is undetectable by the user of the handset unless they use a rooted device and monitor all incoming sms payloads.
I'm kind of surprised that rooting the device allows the user of the device to become aware. It seems like the sort of thing that the baseband layer would handle without passing anything at all to the main OS. At least for the messages designed for stealth. Obviously the messages meant to influence the UI (like voicemail status) need to make their way to the OS.
I assume from the point of view of the baseband processor these are all messages meant to influence the UI, and the silent messages sent by police are an "abuse" of the feature
