Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on P2P Dangers

marshall11 writes "From the Senate Judiciary Committee's website: "The Senate Committee on the Judiciary scheduled for today at 2:00 p.m., on "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?" has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Building.' Ok /.ers who knows what's going on with this? It's only a week away; is anyone testifying or appearing as a friend of the Committee? Is anyone planning on testifying? What issues are going to be raised?"

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Short answer to the Committee

[Kalak]

Yes.

So could the spy decoder ring in a box of cereal, the fertilizer in our local hardware store, and so could the rat poison, the SSL self-signed cert I created a few days ago, so could......

Judging by the title of "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?", I'd say that someone's mind is made up already. The "Dark Side" of anything is not going to be shown in a positive "light".

I hope someone is there to represent wiser heads. At the rate things are going, ACs on /. posting from proxies the US builds to get aroung the Great Firewall will be the only way Terrorists can communicate.