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Sep 13 2001, 01:14 (UTC+0) | ElfQrin writes: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I know we might seem imposin' / But trust me if we ever show in your session / Believe me it's for your own protection / Cuz we see things that you need not see / And we be places that you need not be." -- Man In Black soundtrack
Governments all over the world are now trying to use this immane tragedy for their own interests, to limit people's freedom with the false promise that it's made for their own protection.
People, especially European politicians now talk about Echelon as it was a normal thing, and wonder why it didn't intercept any communication from the terrorists (and I'll tell you why: it was too busy while doing industrial espionage).
On this subject, Kristen Philipkoski writes on Wired that many civil liberties watchdogs say freedom in the United States have been slowly eroding for the past several decades. But they say Tuesday's attacks will redouble efforts by the government to infringe on civil freedoms, and now people won't resist.
Among other things, now FBI is trying to revamp Carnivore, when their blind faith in elint (electronic intelligence), among other factors, was the cause of such outstanding failure.
Congressmen are calling for technology companies to include "back-door" access for government agencies that monitor communications. This is illegal and would have been unacceptable only one week ago, yet nobody complains.
They also complain because they "have literally billions of messages to sift through every day", while admit terrorists use terrorists use code words and strong encryption which make their messages impossible to be detected by such systems. Which means terrorists are not their real target, they target the common man.
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a statement with a suggested action to fight this menace.
EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center too published a special edition of its newsletter Epic Alert about this issue.
Related articles:
LA Times: Officials Call for More Net Security, MSNBC/Newsweek: Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?, MSNBC/Newsweek: End of Innocence |
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