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Gilmore Commission Recommends Secret 'Cyber Court'
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?
Copyright protection is security.
Microsoft is not a monopoly.
Right now it is a hard time to be a "Tough On Crime" politician.
The government has lost public support for the war on drugs. People fell for it since the 70s, but eventually realized that it was not working, and actually exacerbates problems relating to the drug trade. America's racially biased judicial system (80% of US prison inmates are black, while blacks only make up slightly less than 15% of the US population.) has been getting a lot of negative attention lately, so politicians are starting to sneak away from the whole mess, leaving it for someone else to clean up.
Terrorism was big for a while, but now that George Bush has made anti-terrorist efforts into his war on terrorism, any other politician who hops on the bandwagon will be in Dubya's shadow.
So where does a loudmouthed right winger go? Moving on to sensible issues does not work too well, because Republicans must cut funding for those in order to pay back rich friends with lower taxes. So instead it is time to chase after the hackers! Get those awful kids before they deface another web site! A scourge on mondern civilization!
I guess Gilmore proves that desperate times call for desperate measures...