Earlier today, btw, I predicted that this is why CISPA had a chance of passing the Senate, unless Leahy or some other eloquent champion spends considerable political and social capital smacking it down.
Awful timing. The House had been planning "cybersecurity week" for this week for months. I am not quite enough of a paranoid hippie to suspect these events were engineered to promote the cybersecurity bills and budget lines. That would be insane. However, the events of this week will be used for that precise purpose. It's a very grim gift horse Sigh... ---- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com On Apr 18, 2013 8:28 PM, "Yosem Companys" <compa...@stanford.edu> wrote: > From: Lauren Weinstein <lau...@vortex.com> > > And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys > rear their ugly heads > > "We Need More Cameras, and We Need Them Now" > > http://j.mp/14A4fY1 (Slate) > > "Cities under the threat of terrorist attack should install networks of > cameras to monitor everything that happens at vulnerable urban > installations. Yes, you don't like to be watched. Neither do I. But of > all the measures we might consider to improve security in an age of > terrorism, installing surveillance cameras everywhere may be the best > choice. They're cheap, less intrusive than many physical security > systems, and-as will hopefully be the case with the Boston > bombing-they can be extremely effective at solving crimes." > > - - - > > This kind of misguided and factually vacuous proposal is more > dangerous to freedom than all the terrorism on the planet. > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info > - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org > - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: > http://www.gctip.org > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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