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Blaming Encryption
EisPick writes: "Just as a previous generation wrestled with whether or not to blame physicists for The Bomb, there are some misguided folks who are blaming Phil Zimmermann for the ability of terrorists to communicate confidentially. He tells the Washington Post, 'It has been a horrific few days.'" Meanwhile, John Gilmore has posted far and wide a call to mirror encryption code outside the United States, since export regulations are making a comeback.
funny, moron, dont remember him saying anything about LinUx. It's always about the penguin...
The problem with "tech savvy" politicians is that democracy runs much slower than tech developement, you see this with the MS case, and you see this with the way they handled tips the terrorist attacks were going to happen. You also should be AMAZED that they are taking action against people withing 2 weeks of the attack. Thats lightning fast for democracy.
Im not complaining, its still better than a lot of alternatives...
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You are of course right. The system is not democratic. Particularly the way of counting the votes and the procedure (or lack thereof) when a conflict arises is contributing to this. The only democratic outcome of the previous election would have been a reelection. Now the outcome of the election was determined by a puppet of the brother of the guy who won.
Jilles