An abstract gradient of metaphors if you'd like: 1999: "They have computers and many have other weapons of mass destruction" (The article is dated as 2002, its google cached as 2011, but I want to remember it as a quote from 1999) http://www.cnet.com/news/federal-unit-to-fight-hacking/
2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act 2001: http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/38 2015: "to prevent, investigate, or prosecute offenses relating to: (1) an imminent threat of death, serious bodily harm, or serious economic harm, including a terrorist act or a use of a weapon of mass destruction; or (2) crimes involving serious violent felonies, fraud and identity theft, espionage and censorship, or trade secrets." https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754/text Or "We need vast expansive powers and unaccountable private sector partners without anti-trust limitations and state level proxies exempt from disclosure requirements in order to track, identify and prosecute terrorists, spies, repressive international regimes, people who jaywalk and anyone suspected disloyal to the party, also can we make this extrajudicial irrelevant of extradition treaties?" _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
