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Gilmore Commission Recommends Secret 'Cyber Court'

Posted by michael on from the quis-custodiet dept.

hillct writes: "Yesterday the House Committee on Science received newly released cyber security recommendations from Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore, III of the Gilmore Commission. Most disturbing among these recommendations was a call for "Establishment of a special 'Cyber Court' patterned after the court established in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act"." See also the Wired story. Do we really need another secret, unaccountable court?

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  1. Re:"* Youth" by Hard_Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent down: -100000 brain fart

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  2. Re:What ABout the poor Wittle Raggie-Waggie Heads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone mod this up

  3. Re:yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At last one decent opinion in this godforsaken WWW forum. I think people should stop. And wonder: "What if the good guys are running the world afterall? And the satan will come in the anarchy people who will not let the beautiful system flurish with courts and take us to the second presence? What if then?"

    Conservative: The one who admires radicals many years after their death.

  4. Re:Ye Flipping Gods! by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Call me crazy, but I think I would've stopped when "SEIG HEIL" started. Maybe that's only because I don't fit into groups well or something."

    Social psychologist have found that most people tend to think of themselves as more different from the majority than they really are. They even have a name for that phenomenon. (See Joule / Beauvois, "Soumission librement consentie")