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NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance
nut writes "We're all aware of how much surveillance we are under on the internet thanks to Edward Snowden. Gehan Gunasekara, an associate commercial law professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, wants us all to start sending suspicious looking but meaningless data across the internet to overload automated surveillance systems. Essentially he is advocating a mass distributed Bayesian poisoning attack against our watchers."
Under UK Law, downloading this could result in a prison sentence.
And yet I love the never ending posts about how America is the ONLY country which is a threat to liberty. It certainly is pushing at the boundaries of crazy but at least it is ostensibly legal to download that manual.
I was reading part of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and memoirs and two quotes struck me which were written just a few months before the outbreak of the revolutionary war:
"Try on your fetters and if you don't like them, then we can talk."
And
"Either we must all be free, or none of us."
(I may have missed a word, but meaning is exact).
The former the attitude we are faced with. These programs are thrust on us, and we have to really complain for even the slightest hope of the patriot act to not be renewed.
The latter the attitude we must have not only regarding our fellow Americans, but with all of our allies who have traditionally been beacons of liberty. If our allies stumble, we fall. If we stumble we may drag everyone to the ministry of love with us.