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U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty
waytoomuchcoffee writes "SecurityFocus has a new article on the Council of Europe's "Convention on Cybercrime". The U.S. has already signed the treaty, but it has not yet been ratified by the Senate (although President Bush has written a letter urging the treaty's passage). This treaty, among other items, would require the U.S.
to "cooperate with foreign authorities" in conducting surveillance on American citizens who have committed no crime under U.S. law, but may have broken another country's law (selling historic Nazi posters on Ebay? Germany might have you wiretapped), prohibiting the "production, sale or distribution of hacking tools", whatever that means (would Nmap be illegal?) and require the U.S. to pass laws to "force users to provide their encryption keys" and the plain text of their encrypted files. Canada is a signatory as well."
So they're gonna ban carpenters' tools? You know what they say... when wood screws are outlawed, only criminals will have wood screws...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Canada is a signatory as well.
There! Happy now? Slashdot finally mentioned Canada, but it turns out you're a bunch of facists like the rest of us. W00t!
International law? Ha ha. Promigulated from which legislature?
Lawyers have a saying, "International law is like professional wrestling. No sane person mistakes it for the real thing."
Can't go to the USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia or China.
Well, I guess if Russia doesn't work out for us liberty loving types we can always head for Mars.
Beep beep.
...our new French overlords.
warm weather and daylight in winter?
Is that someone who discriminates against people on the basis of their face?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Guess I underestimated the number of /. readers who comment without reading the original story.
/. readers who comment without reading the original story.
Never underestimate the number of
Why, this invasion of privacy is outrageous! I'm going to use my new Gmail account and email everyone I know about it.
What is this "day-light" of which you speak?
What kind of a geek are you, worrying about if a place has daylight? Tsk, tsk, tsk.....
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
Oh, you want the... Well, sorry sir, but I accidently dropped the magnetic medium my one-time pad was on on top of this here supermagnet. Sorry; Hope you got a few centuries spare on a Cray. Don't scare me like that next time!
Sorry officer, I always keep my floppies together with magnets. Oh... You mean magnets erase floppies? Oops...
One interesting solution to having to hand over your pass keys is provided by the Phonebook Encryption Project. This program encrypts a file to have TWO keys which will decrypt into TWO different files. One key decrypts the file to reveal the beastiality porno, one key decrypts the file for pictures of barney the dinosaur
But I don't want to have to re-encrypt all of my lesbian snuff films! Oh well...stupid government. <sigh>
OMG Run its the guberment!!
Oh boy, emacs will be illegal!!!!
Now I am sad.
Which, given Ashcroft's history will probably be fine by them....
"There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. " - Sean Connery as King Arthur
Most people dont realize this, but GW Bush actually IS christ. He really doesn't need approval from anyone. Even Congress.
t ml
If you don't believe yet, then look for yourself:
http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/295/index.h
This is just one of many sightings....