On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 11/19/02 14:18, Ward Oldham wrote > > [snip...] > >The time may be growing near when we have to be willing to sacrifice a > >little of our privacy in an effort to prevent potential harm that may affect > >many others than just ourselves. > > > > The real question is whether all the invasion of privacy will actually > prevent anything which could be prevented in some other way. I, for one, > feel that my security will decrease if unlimited snooping is allowed, > since there are more threats to well-being than being blown up or > poisoned in a terrorist attack. Does the US have any privacy laws? The way that companies happily sell my information off to anyone makes me think not. One worry with the increase in laws is that the US has always seemed to be a place where the law is one of the only limiting factors, besides puritanism, so once a law is there that people can be held in prison indefinitely without bail, I imagine they would use that law. For example, the whole geeky skylarov thing where they kept him in custody for longer than legally allowed. I'd not be surprised if over here they just claimed he was under suspicion as a terrorist and were able to happily keep him in longer. Maybe y'all just need a nice big failed socialist rebellion to get a government who care :) The only war against an american government was a classic example of a pretender king trying to claim the throne, which isn't the same as a peasants revolution. Only way a bill will get stopped by this is if the media decide it will make them airtime to popularise a public resistance. Hen The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
