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Net Taps Without Warrants?
disappear writes "In the wake of yesterday's threats to cryptography, more ominous news: Wired News reports
that a bill permitting warrantless Internet surveilance has been passed by the Senate." This is just part of the expected and unfortunate backlash from tuesday. The terrorists are winning simply because the govt. can use their threat as a blank check to take away our rights. The worst part is that this will do no good whatsoever. Does the govt really think that crypto export restrictions have prevented terrorists from having strong crypto?
I'm truly saddened to verify how much the Dubya adminstration is owned by Microsoft, but there's no escape from reality: Osama Bin Laden is Bill Gates in disguise. If you have any doubt, do this: open any Microsoft Word document, and type New York's initials in capital letters: NY, then change the font to "Wingdings". This is better done with a large font size, 24 point or larger.
Anything that is truely our **rights** in a constitutional sense will be protected by the supreme court.
The congress will push, the courts will push back, and life wil lgo on as it has in the US.
I get the feeling a significant cross section of slashdot just likes to run around hystericly like the sky is falling.
Not only did the Canadians leave the door wide open and let the terrorists in, they have openly offered to harbor other criminal enterprises, such as Microsoft.