Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 5, 2008 @10:56AM from the waiting-for-the-other-shoe dept.

A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar. Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an "i-Patriot Act," to drop in the event of a "cyber-9/11." Clarke responded, "Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won't like it." Lessig's anecdote begins at about 4:30 in the video.

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Re:Would this be enough to make us move? by Opportunist · 2008-08-05 15:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

*sigh*
Austria.
Please do me a favor and tell the people here you're not from the US, so we don't have to put up with the stereotypical "US citizen knowing jack about the rest of the world" posts.
Ain't it interesting that everyone knows about Germany but so many people have no clue about Austria? The US occupied parts of it from 45 to 55, for crying out loud, or was that just part of Germany for all you were concerned, since the language is (almost) the same and Germany occupied Austria 38-45, so technically it was all Germany when you got there?

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