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Cybercrime Treaty to Be Signed
texchanchan writes: "Yahoo reports that "Interior ministers and law enforcement officials from Europe, South Africa, Canada, the United States and Japan will sign the milestone cyber-crime convention.... [because] computer criminals... have moved on from ``innocent'' hacking to fraud, embezzlement and life-threatening felonies."" Feel the spin in that article, from the anonymous "official". We've posted about this treaty before; read the final draft and note it well, particularly the extradition provisions, mutual assistance (some other country gets your country to tap your phones, and send them the data) and the requirements to disclose passwords.
South America is becoming a bastion of freedom.
Quick, somebody call Alanis Morrisette. Maybe she can misunderstand this horribly in a future song.
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Soon, the Internet will reach its originally intended purpose of allowing people to shop online as quickly and efficiently as possible, and everything else will be outlawed.
once Bush hears that this is an "international treaty", he'll back out of it because of US interests.
I think that racists are cretins, but they have a right to hate whomever they please. They also have a right to express themselves, and the internet isn't immune to free speech. Now if only everyone else would agree....
Oh shit, there goes the [Internet].
So...all young looking porno models are out of work now....I's a sad, sad, day.
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Political discussion for a new world
Exhibit 1:
"[We will make illegal...]the production, sale, procurement for use, import, distribution or otherwise making available of [...]a device, including a computer program, designed or adapted primarily for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in accordance with Article 2 - 5"
Exhibit 2:
"Article 5 - System interference
[C]ommitted intentionally, the serious hindering without right of the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data."
So now Windows is illegal in Europe...
Not only that but half of the capacity of my harddisk seems suddenly to have become illegal :-(
Attention! Now that this treaty has been signed into law, keep in mind that it is very important that you never forget your passwords. If you forget your password, and it is required for a terrorist investigation, you can be arrested for failure to disclose your password. Please be extremely careful with all your passwords, never EVER forget them.
Specfically:
- If you have Alzheimers, do not use any computer system that requires a password.
- If you write software, make sure that any time you ask a user to create a password, you inform them that they could be imprisoned for life in a foreign country if they forget it.
- If you have to remember multiple passwords, repeat them to yourself 100 times every night, before you go to sleep.
Please follow these tips to keep everyone safe & free from terrorism!
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
Don't you see? If we allow the threat of cybercrime to force us to change the way we manage our landing lights, THE CYBERCRIMINALS HAVE WON!
Improving security is an admission that our resolve to enforce security as it is has weakened. We must continue to live our lives, connect everything possible to the public network regardless of how vital or sensitive, and protect our assets with poorly concieved security mechanisms. To do anything else would show that the hackers and the rest of the terrorists have won!
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The whole airport local net was probably accessable from the Internet. *shudder* Landing lights were probably the least damaging thing that could have been done to it!
It'll get worse with the net-capable appliances of the future -- Shutdown all fridges in Boston every Friday the 13th, Code Red for toasters, etc. (Just kidding, I hope!)
Star Wars (EpIV for you damned kids) should have warned them: An unauthorized R2 unit at a docking bay data port shut down all the garbage mashers on the Detention Level... Bad network security on something the size of a small moon!
I guess I'd better not ever try out my prank of taking a highish power IR laser, modulating it with the on/full volume/play codes for most TVs, stereos, VCRs, DVDs -- and then painting a few nearby apartment buildings with it at 3am...
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Luckily congress still has to approve the treaty and we're lucky they're not stupid enuf--oh *shit*.
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This alone is nice, but the kicker is that the 5th amendment (self-incrimination) should prevent legislation that requires the release of authentication (as opposed to encryption) information. The courts have repeatedly ruled that while the authorities have the right to subpoena your data, they cannot (under protection against self-incrimination) require you to testify that the data is in fact yours.