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DHS Wants To Monitor the Web For Terrorists
clustro writes "Under the belief that terrorists are 'increasingly' recruiting US citizens, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano says that increased government monitoring of the Internet is necessary to thwart them. It is believed that Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hassan and attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad were inspired by radical Internet postings. Speaking at a meeting of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Napolitano said, 'We can significantly advance security without having a deleterious impact on individual rights in most instances. At the same time, there are situations where tradeoffs are inevitable.'"
Absolutely. And it also shows how out-of-step with the current net these people are. Given the way people rejoice in their liberty on the net, there would be whole theater groups getting set up just to troll DHS.
This, people, this right here is the natural result of electing a pile of leftist socialists, the smug 'we understand the social models, so we can make things better if we control everything' mindset. A aristocracy of arrogance. No understanding of the noise in the system, or the importance of having noise there.
A funny thing happened a couple weeks ago, when I tried to find out why my super fast internet was suddenly super slow. My computers trouble shooting software said, it was a connection problem. So, I opened up my connections icon and lo & behold, there was another connection in my neighborhood called Homeland Security. Now, if I lived in a big city, I would think, "They are probably have an office close by." However, I live in a village of less than 2,000 people so, my conclusion is, they are already monitoring the internet!
Wait. Can I upload myself to youtube? How about someplace like wikileaks? Wikipedia? Once uploaded, can I move around the web? Can the cops download me from the web? Sounds really cool to me, but not if the cops can get me back out. Hmmmm. I wonder what the Pentagon's firewall looks like when you actually look at it from inside the intartubez? And, the Great Firewall of China has got to be impressive.
Do you have the hardware and software ready for sale, or are you offering vaporware, like Microsoft?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
"According to the DHS"
Yes, I got that. There are a lot of other things I don't like about Napolitano. The bitch should have been drowned while she was still a pup.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br