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  1. This is your generations Pearl Harbor, never foget by )-(ellbilly · · Score: 1 · on Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech

    You'all are forget'n the context of the big picture, YOUR COUNTRY WAS ATTACKED!!

  2. AOL Just bought LibertyNews.org by libertynews · · Score: 1 · on AOL Buying Up Blogs

    Its true, really! Look for the invisible AOL logo and disclaimer on LibertyNews.org, a wildly popular news site for liberty and security minded individuals (100 hits a day, but they're QUALITY hits).

    Finally I can retire to that mountaintop cabin in Idaho. I want to thank Bob and Steve and Sharon for all their hard work in putting together this deal -- AOL stock is going to be worth something in the future, isn't it?

    Brian
    editor of the formerly privatly owned news site Libertynews.org

  3. Proper procedures were followed by libertynews · · Score: 5, Informative · on Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing

    Here's the relavent part of the decision:

    "Acting pursuant to federal search warrants, the F.B.I. on January 15, 1999, entered Scarfo and Paolercio's business office, Merchant Services of Essex County, to search for evidence of an illegal gambling and loansharking operation. During their search of Merchant Services, the F.B.I. came across a personal computer and attempted to access its various files. They were unable to gain entry to an encrypted file named ?Factors.?
    Suspecting the ?Factors? file contained evidence of an illegal gambling and loansharking operation, the F.B.I. returned to the location and, pursuant to two search warrants, installed what is known as a ?Key Logger System? (?KLS?) on the computer and/or computer keyboard in order to decipher the passphrase to the encrypted file, thereby gaining entry to the file."

    Note that the FBI has a warrent for the first entry, and returned with new warrents to install the KLS. I'm as paranoid as the next guy about government intrusion (hence my Libertynews.org website) but the FBI followed the rules here. And as detailed in previous articles they actually bent over backwards to make sure the KLS did not record any of his online keystrokes.

    This is the kind of thing that civil libertarians should be applauding, proper use of warrents and use of technology to limit the scope of thier intrusion.

  4. Re:What repercussions by libertynews · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Our New Pearl Harbor

    That the terrorists use sophisticated encryption measures and that our intelligence agencies are under-funded and don't have the ability to keep tabs on the terrorists

    This isn't nesicarily true, cell based organizations, if they are smart, will avoid anything but direct communications.

    To answer your other question. No. I will not give up any of my liberties. The world is an unsafe place, we must accept the risks that come with being a free nation. If we do not then the experiment is over. Jerry Pournelle thinks that this is the end of the Republic and the move to an Empire. See www.jerrypournelle.com for more of his thoughts. See www.libertynews.org for discussions and news.

  5. LibertyNews.org is UP by libertynews · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Attack -- More Updates

    My "lame little website" www.libertynews.org is up and running and available for news updates. Facts only please!

    Brian

  6. LibertyNews is Available by libertynews · · Score: 2, Informative · on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked

    If people want an alternative site to post at feel free to hop over to www.libertynews.org. I've got lots of BW to spare, especially today. Please try to limit it to factual updates from around the country, limit the rampant speculation for now please.

    Brian

  7. A Couple of Nits to Pick by libertynews · · Score: 2 · on Government Takes Control Of The Net; 2000 In Review
    Overall the article is accurate, but I get a bit fried at the continued bashing of so called censorship in the US. In other countries, yes, the government is censoring all of its citizens network access (China is a prime example).

    But what do we have to complain about in the US? A cybercrime treaty that the outgoing President signed. Well everyone ought to know that the treaty has to be ratified by congress before it is binding in the US. Odds of that happening are low, and if you call or email your congresscritters and let them know what you think it will be even lower.

    Complaints about eBay. Well, they've been censoring things for a long time now. Try selling a gun on eBay (which you could do when they first opened). Not any longer. As a matter of fact, you cannot even sell a legal high capacity magazine on eBay these days! What's the answer? Other auction sites! Places like gunbroker.com have moved in to take over the segment of the market that eBay refuses to satisfy. That's freedom at work.

    And the other thing that really frosts me is this insistence that requiring filtering on school and library computers (owned and paid for by all of us tax payers) is some kind of evil censorship. It isn't. If you want to browse your porn sites then get your own damn internet connection, don't do it on my dime. But they censor more than just port sites, you say. Well the answer to that is to lobby to get them to change (and reveal) the lists of the sites they block, not to remove the blocking completely.

    And what reasonable parent would want to send their kid to the library to check out the latest Harry Potter book, only to have to walk by some pervert drooling over the latest Porn Pics.

    Liberty and Freedom doesn't mean that you have the right to force the rest of us to pay for your habits. Keep it in your home, where it belongs. And don't forget -- when you accept Taxpayer Funds you have to also accept the strings that are attached.

    For more of my rants and views drop on over to www.libertynews.org