If you mail the card back, it can be read without even opening the envelope. If you cut the card in 2 (or 4 or 8), the mag stripe is unlikely to be able to be easily read. The only thing the tiny rfid chip needs is to be intact... it's that small. I cut a card open and it's about 1mm square, embedded in the card.
Want to know if your card has a chip?: does the signature lines go all the way across the card, or stop early? If it stops early, that's a chipped card. The chip is at/near the part that would be sig lined.
And finally: someone should steal your identity and keep you busy instead.. Oh wait, they DID, Mr Anonymous Coward. Talk about ironic: someone afraid to post his own identity complaining when others are concerned about their own. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect you were a shill for the RFID folks. We know they troll like that... go read Katherine's book where she documents the slimy stuff they've done.
CONSUMER WATCHDOGS DEMAND RECALL OF SPYCHIPPED CREDIT CARDS CASPIAN Advises Consumers to Immediately Remove Cards from Wallets
Consumer watchdog group CASPIAN is demanding a recall of millions of RFID-equipped contactless credit cards in light of serious security flaws reported today in the New York Times. The paper reports that a team of security researchers has found that virtually every one of these cards tested is vulnerable to unauthorized charges and puts consumers at risk for identity theft.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to transmit information at a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because the data they contain can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves without an individual's knowledge or consent. The technology has long been the target of criticism by privacy and civil liberties groups.
"For these financial institutions to put RFID in credit cards, one of the most sensitive items we carry, is absolute lunacy," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, a consumer group with over 12,000 members in 30 countries worldwide.
Researchers are showing how a thief could skim information from the cards right through purses, backpacks and wallets. This information includes the cardholder's name, credit card number, expiration date and other data that would be sufficient to make unauthorized purchases. They say the information could even be used to identify and track people, a scenario Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre lay out in their book, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."
Despite earlier assurances by the issuing companies that the data contained in the credit cards would be secure, researchers found that the majority of cards they tested did not use encryption or protect the data in any way. The information on them was readily available to unauthorized parties using equipment that could be assembled for as little as $50, the researchers said.
"We cautioned companies against using item-level RFID, and they didn't heed us. Now the credit card industry is facing an unprecedented PR and financial disaster," says McIntyre, who is also a former bank examiner. She points to the astronomical cost to replace the cards, not to mention the potential financial losses, litigation expenses, and erosion of consumer trust.
Albrecht and McIntyre are calling on the industry to issue a public alert detailing the dangers of the cards they've issued, institute an active recall, and make safe versions without RFID available to concerned consumers.
"This recall has to be very clear and very directed since consumers may not know their cards contain RFID tags," says Albrecht. "The industry has repeatedly resisted calls to clearly label the cards. Rather, they've given the cards innocent-sounding names like 'Blink.'"
CASPIAN is advising consumers to immediately remove the credit cards from their wallets and call the 800 number on the back to insist on an RFID-free replacement card. The group is cautioning consumers not to mail the cards back or simply throw them away due to the risk of their personal information being skimmed.
Indeed. Vote 3rd Party, ANY 3rd party... but by moving to someplace together and being even moderately active will help even more... voting isn't just enough, sadly.
Those supporting Libertarians (and other assorted liberty-centric parties such as the Constitution party) should consider the Free State Project, and move to New Hampshire. We're already having an effect here.
The religious zealots can move to South Carolina Similarly, the Greens could move to Oregon... Florida can remain a neutral zone, where all the aging folks will migrate toward once the little red light on their palms starts blinking. (joke)
Jim's a great guy. He came to New Hampshire to help us fight Real ID here. He testified to help us pass an anti-RealID bill, which came within a hair of becoming law.
I had a long argument with NH Senator President Gatsas about the "id requirement" issue in flying and we (Jim and I) insisted he was wrong, that we could fly without any ID, if we were willing to submit to a secondary search. Kudos to Jim for proving us right!
(For those wondering what politics in New Hampshire is like... Yes, not only did I have an argument with the Senate President, but he called me back within 5 minutes of my sending him an email. We have that sort of an open and accessible legislature. Come and see it in action, there is nothing like it anywhere else. 400 State Representatives, 24 Senators, all paid a mere $100 a year, and little in the way of staff or offices.)
Here's some video showing the rally against REAL ID here in New Hampshire. We had a wide range of supporters, Left and Right, Atheist and Christian, all working together to help stop this....
They've sworn up and down how they won't create a central database, but this sort of datamining is exactly what they have in mind...
Add in RFID chipped drivers licenses (not to mention the new passports which DO use RFID), and you have the making of a complete "We know who you are, who you hang out with, and where you were last night" totalitarian tracking system.
This is why many of us are moving to New Hampshire, joining the http://freestateproject.org/, and working against these things. We nearly stopped New Hampshire from participating in REALID (the Republican Senators are selling out the state for a mere $3 million...) and we're not done yet.
We (the NHLA and others in NH) fought the bicycle helmet bill, and will continue to do so...
We can't win them all. We won some, and lost others. Overall, we're making progress. Those who voted for the bicycle helmets will find it comes back to haunt them in the next election cycle.
Concord is only a town of 40,000 people... even figuring those from around the entire state, you really think that given a 3% unemployment rate, that's a bit of a stretch?
What are you talking about? First of all, we _welcome_ NH natives as Friends (they don't count toward the 20K goal), and all of the natives I know are friendly (lots and lots) feel like we fit the mold here quite well, and are more like 'classic NH folk' than those moving from Massachusetts or Vermont.
And it's not that cold all over the state. Lancaster is way way north.
We're having our PorcFest annual get together in Lancaster last weekend in July. I invite you to come check us out. I'm sure you'd like us.
What would you notice? Well, let's see, we directly helped kill a Red Light Camera bill (spy camera issues tickets), and we've got people doing a variety of both political and civil disobedience issues... it's still early, so we don't have tons of " 'We' did this", but we've got a voice and some momentum.
No specific towns. Manchester is the _largest_ city (100K), and one activist there told me that if he had a dozen people working together, he could work miracles there. We don't need a 'Free Town' specifically... or a Free County. NH's setup is such that we can do a lot with just a vocal activist minority.
Job prospects? NH has no income or sales tax, much of it is less than 1 hour from Boston, and it has the lowest unemployment rate around.
As the federal system gets more and more police state like, I want neighbors who are like minded. Here in New Hampshire, even with just over a hundred people moved, we're already making a difference.
Put aside your preconceptions about New Hampshire (it's not THAT cold, people), about Libertarians (We're a wide mix of positions, from very moderate to extreme), about politics (NH's system is amazingly and uniquely open, and forget 20K, just a few thousand activists could make a huge difference here), and most of all, about liberty and freedom (What are you going to tell your children about what you did when they took your rights away bit by bit?)
Check out the Free State Project now... we don't need 20K activists to move to make a difference, we just need you.
I was an early TiVo owner. I paid for Cable. I upgraded my TiVo's HD, and got DirectTV... Then I got a DirectTiVo... But one day, I realized that I was paying too much for the limited number of shows on TV I watching... so I stopped paying at all, because the net is a good source of all media now.
Now, I download my favorite TV shows from the net. Within hours of the Simpsons airing on 'free tv', I can download a DivX of it, watching it on my MythTV box, which outputs to my 60 inch TV, with no commercials either. Looks as good as Cable or DirectTV ever did. HBO shows like the Sopranos? CBS/ABC/Fox/NBC? The same thing. Pretty much all of the 'good' tv programs, I can download right away, thanks to Bittorrent.
Mixing Mythtv, RSS and Bitorrent is the killer app for media. It's coming soon... I'll just subscribe to shows, and they will just appear on my box... And every other Myth-style Box out there will help spread them. Even better than Tivo, since I can trust someone to manage an good RSS feed and I'll get everything they think I'd like... Or I'll pick 2 feeds, or 3 feeds, or a dozen... Or run one of my own for friends, etc etc.
They want "less government" but when you ask them how they'll maintain so many essential services for the people, they have no idea.
Define 'essential services'. Most of the time, your 'essential' is not the same as mine... and so long as government continues to be about taking from one person and giving it to another person, Libertarians will continue to talk about reducing government. When the sole thing, the only thing, government does, and should do, is protect us from each other, Libertarians will be happy, and so will the people who founded this country, who are rolling over in their graves right now.
You feel free to vote for Kush or Berry, I can't see any difference between them, both are evil men , who lie when it suits them, just seeking power... I'll vote for freedom, liberty, and good, in the form of Badnarik.
Two obvious requirements for a fair election are that voters should have complete confidence about their ballots' being counted accurately and that everyone, including the disabled, should have access to the polls.
There is a third requirement for fair elections, and that is balanced coverage. Forget the liberal bias, or the conservative bias, the truth in the US is that there is a 2 party bias. 3rd parties are ignored, and given short coverage in the guide of 'to be fair'.... In Europe, 3rd parties quickly gain recognition due to the mix of ballot variety (lots of parties to consider), election style (more representive focused) and the coverage they get. Here in the US, if you aren't a Republicrat, or a Demopublican, you have to fight for coverage. People with a true shot, ie enough ballots that they could win, or will likely affect the course of the election should be coveraged with EQUAL access.(No nonsense like 5% of a poll, because without coverage in the first place, you can't get 5% of a poll... and if they did cover you, odds are you WOULD get 5% or more.)
I'm voting for Michael Badnarik Libertarian, who is also on almost all of the ballots and so should you, if you think Government is out of control. Kush and Berry won't change that, and you're just voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
The goal is to find 20,000 people. We're at nearly 6,000 people now. The only way to we'll go from 6K to 20K in the next year or so is to tell more people about it, aka publicity, aka 'hawking it'.
If you have a better way to find 14K libertarian minded people, please speak up. In my mind, the slashdot crowd tends to be more libertarian, technology freedom/rights aware, and able-to-move due to portable job skills (aka the Internet crowd telecommuting). In other words, a good key demographic for people able to be part of this.
If you've heard about the FSP, you're already in the minority... we come across lots of interested people every day who still haven't heard of it yet.
Why'd they have to choose someplace cold like NH? If they moved it to, say, Florida, I'd have gone for it!
Daddy, where were you when they took away our freedoms?
Well, honey, I was for freedom, but it was just cold for me, so I stayed warm and comfy at home, and let the police state happen around me. Sorry about that.
Sadly, government corrupts, and world government corrupts absolutely.
For those of us in the United States, I strongly urge you to look at things like the Free State Project.
(http://www.freestateproject.org)This isn't a bunch of wackos looking to move to Montana for another Waco holdout, it's made of people like you who will stand up, be active, and work within New Hampshire (already the best representative State with only 3000 people per Rep, as well as strongly libertarian minded) to reduce the size of government. It's our only hope, because the more they pass nonsense like this, the more you and your neighbors had better stand together...
If you, the receipient of this email/post, believe in freedom and self-responsibility, and live in the United States, you are obligated to consider that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil, and that voting for Badnarik is not a wasted vote, but the only way to vote for good. Remember: Bad(narik) is good! You are further obligated to seriously consider joining the Free State Project, because moving to New Hampshire is a small price to pay for Liberty. Offer and restrictions void outside the United States, your rights may vary, but you are encouraged to consider joining the Free State Project anyway.
It's been YEARS now, and this sort of legislation is still not passed. Hmm... why not... Because the Car Makers have the money and don't want it passed.
That was my point. Sorry, I must not have made it clear.
Who would have ever guessed that Government would take one side of the issue, and then at the same time, take the other?...
Oh wait... it's about money... that's right.
The RIAA versus the people: the RIAA has the money.
The Car Makers versus the people: The Car Makers have the money.
It's not about principle, it's about money.
There is only one way to fix this: get GOVERNMENT out of the way. Politicians will ALWAYS be bought and sold, unless they lack the power to do anything in the first place. If they couldn't pass a law in the first place, nobody would pay them to pass a law (or ignore a law).
What can you do to reduce government power?
Join the Free State Project, and find out! We're reducing government because power corrupts and government power corrupts double standardly so.
From the intro:
The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to New Hampshire, where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success of the Free State Project would likely entail reductions in burdensome taxation and regulation, reforms in state and local law, an end to federal mandates, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.
The current Libertarian Presidential nominee, Michael Badnarik is a member, as are almost 6,000 others. New Hampshire is a very tech friendly state, considered to be one of the best places to live, no income tax, no sales tax, low unemployment...
Join us! We're already making a difference in NH, and most of us haven't even moved yet!
it's all about control for them. What they stop?
Who did they help? Who did they 'protect'?
Google will spend time and energy fighting this, or have to work around it, and nobody benefits except the lawmakers who claim they 'did the right thing'.
Yeah, just like CANSPAM stopped spam. (it didn't)
Are you tired of government doing things like this? Me too.
That's why I've join the Free State Project. Imagine 20K liberty minded people all standing up for freedom, willing to be politcally active, and using technology and common sense to achieve a free society. We'll advocate for the end of victimless crime laws (no more drug laws, sex laws, nanny laws), allow privacy tools like encryption, and reduce the size government down to as small as we can make it, lowering taxes, and always respect the rights of those around us. Are you even mildly libertarian? Do you believe that this country is becoming more and more about 'You aren't allowed unless the state says so?' Join us, and help achieve liberty in your lifetime.
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If you mail the card back, it can be read without even opening the envelope. If you cut the card in 2 (or 4 or 8), the mag stripe is unlikely to be able to be easily read. The only thing the tiny rfid chip needs is to be intact... it's that small. I cut a card open and it's about 1mm square, embedded in the card.
Want to know if your card has a chip?: does the signature lines go all the way across the card, or stop early? If it stops early, that's a chipped card. The chip is at/near the part that would be sig lined.
And finally: someone should steal your identity and keep you busy instead.. Oh wait, they DID, Mr Anonymous Coward. Talk about ironic: someone afraid to post his own identity complaining when others are concerned about their own. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect you were a shill for the RFID folks. We know they troll like that... go read Katherine's book where she documents the slimy stuff they've done.
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/flawed-cred it-card-security.html
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 2006
CONSUMER WATCHDOGS DEMAND RECALL OF SPYCHIPPED CREDIT CARDS
CASPIAN Advises Consumers to Immediately Remove Cards from Wallets
Consumer watchdog group CASPIAN is demanding a recall of millions of RFID-equipped contactless credit cards in light of serious security flaws reported today in the New York Times. The paper reports that a team of security researchers has found that virtually every one of these cards tested is vulnerable to unauthorized charges and puts consumers at risk for identity theft.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to transmit information at a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because the data they contain can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves without an individual's knowledge or consent. The technology has long been the target of criticism by privacy and civil liberties groups.
"For these financial institutions to put RFID in credit cards, one of the most sensitive items we carry, is absolute lunacy," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, a consumer group with over 12,000 members in 30 countries worldwide.
Researchers are showing how a thief could skim information from the cards right through purses, backpacks and wallets. This information includes the cardholder's name, credit card number, expiration date and other data that would be sufficient to make unauthorized purchases. They say the information could even be used to identify and track people, a scenario Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre lay out in their book, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."
Despite earlier assurances by the issuing companies that the data contained in the credit cards would be secure, researchers found that the majority of cards they tested did not use encryption or protect the data in any way. The information on them was readily available to unauthorized parties using equipment that could be assembled for as little as $50, the researchers said.
"We cautioned companies against using item-level RFID, and they didn't heed us. Now the credit card industry is facing an unprecedented PR and financial disaster," says McIntyre, who is also a former bank examiner. She points to the astronomical cost to replace the cards, not to mention the potential financial losses, litigation expenses, and erosion of consumer trust.
Albrecht and McIntyre are calling on the industry to issue a public alert detailing the dangers of the cards they've issued, institute an active recall, and make safe versions without RFID available to concerned consumers.
"This recall has to be very clear and very directed since consumers may not know their cards contain RFID tags," says Albrecht. "The industry has repeatedly resisted calls to clearly label the cards. Rather, they've given the cards innocent-sounding names like 'Blink.'"
CASPIAN is advising consumers to immediately remove the credit cards from their wallets and call
the 800 number on the back to insist on an RFID-free replacement card. The group is cautioning consumers not to mail the cards back or simply throw them away due to the risk of their personal information being skimmed.
Today's New York Times article by John Schwartz can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card
A research report detailing the findings can be found here:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/2006
She lied. You can still get a non-rfid card. Insist on it.
Indeed. Vote 3rd Party, ANY 3rd party... but by moving to someplace together and being even moderately active will help even more... voting isn't just enough, sadly.
Those supporting Libertarians (and other assorted liberty-centric parties such as the Constitution party) should consider the
Free State Project, and move to New Hampshire. We're already having an effect here.
The religious zealots can move to South Carolina Similarly, the Greens could move to Oregon... Florida can remain a neutral zone, where all the aging folks will migrate toward once the little red light on their palms starts blinking. (joke)
Vote with your feet, not just your ballot.
Jim's a great guy. He came to New Hampshire to help us fight Real ID here.
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He testified to help us pass an anti-RealID bill, which came within a hair of becoming law.
As I wrote in another post, see
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=830740502
for footage from a big protest against REAL ID here.
I had a long argument with NH Senator President Gatsas about the "id requirement" issue in flying and we (Jim and I) insisted he was wrong, that we could fly without any ID, if we were willing to submit to a secondary search. Kudos to Jim for proving us right!
(For those wondering what politics in New Hampshire is like... Yes, not only did I have an argument with the Senate President, but he called me back within 5 minutes of my sending him an email. We have that sort of an open and accessible legislature. Come and see it in action, there is nothing like it anywhere else. 400 State Representatives, 24 Senators, all paid a mere $100 a year, and little in the way of staff or offices.)
Here's some video showing the rally against REAL ID here in New Hampshire.
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We had a wide range of supporters, Left and Right, Atheist and Christian, all working together to help stop this....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=830740502
They've sworn up and down how they won't create a central database, but this sort of datamining is exactly what they have in mind...
Add in RFID chipped drivers licenses (not to mention the new passports which DO use RFID), and you have the making of a complete "We know who you are, who you hang out with, and where you were last night" totalitarian tracking system.
This is why many of us are moving to New Hampshire, joining the http://freestateproject.org/, and working against these things. We nearly stopped New Hampshire from participating in REALID (the Republican Senators are selling out the state for a mere $3 million...) and we're not done yet.
See hot and sultry Mexican women get sweaty!
See strong and virile Latin men strut their stuff!
See sexy uniformed INS men do their thing!
Government gets bigger and more powerful.
Freedom and Liberty go down the drain.
Nothing new to see here, move along....
Move along to New Hampshire, that is....
Join the Free State Project, because we _are_ working hard against things like this....
We (the NHLA and others in NH) fought the bicycle helmet bill, and will continue to do so...
We can't win them all. We won some, and lost others. Overall, we're making progress. Those who voted for the bicycle helmets will find it comes back to haunt them in the next election cycle.
_4000_ applicants?
Concord is only a town of 40,000 people... even figuring those from around the entire state, you really think that given a 3% unemployment rate, that's a bit of a stretch?
What are you talking about? First of all, we _welcome_ NH natives as Friends (they don't count toward the 20K goal), and all of the natives I know are friendly (lots and lots) feel like we fit the mold here quite well, and are more like 'classic NH folk' than those moving from Massachusetts or Vermont.
And it's not that cold all over the state. Lancaster is way way north.
We're having our PorcFest annual get together in Lancaster last weekend in July. I invite you to come check us out. I'm sure you'd like us.
What would you notice? Well, let's see, we directly helped kill a Red Light Camera bill (spy camera issues tickets), and we've got people doing a variety of both political and civil disobedience issues... it's still early, so we don't have tons of " 'We' did this", but we've got a voice and some momentum.
No specific towns. Manchester is the _largest_ city (100K), and one activist there told me that if he had a dozen people working together, he could work miracles there. We don't need a 'Free Town' specifically... or a Free County. NH's setup is such that we can do a lot with just a vocal activist minority.
Job prospects? NH has no income or sales tax, much of it is less than 1 hour from Boston, and it has the lowest unemployment rate around.
As the federal system gets more and more police state like, I want neighbors who are like minded.
Here in New Hampshire, even with just over a hundred people moved, we're already making a difference.
Put aside your preconceptions about New Hampshire (it's not THAT cold, people), about Libertarians (We're a wide mix of positions, from very moderate to extreme), about politics (NH's system is amazingly and uniquely open, and forget 20K, just a few thousand activists could make a huge difference here), and most of all, about liberty and freedom (What are you going to tell your children about what you did when they took your rights away bit by bit?)
Check out the Free State Project now... we don't need 20K activists to move to make a difference, we just need you.
I was an early TiVo owner. I paid for Cable. I upgraded my TiVo's HD, and got DirectTV... Then I got a DirectTiVo...
But one day, I realized that I was paying too much for the limited number of shows on TV I watching... so I stopped paying at all, because the net is a good source of all media now.
Now, I download my favorite TV shows from the net. Within hours of the Simpsons airing on 'free tv', I can download a DivX of it, watching it on my MythTV box, which outputs to my 60 inch TV, with no commercials either. Looks as good as Cable or DirectTV ever did. HBO shows like the Sopranos? CBS/ABC/Fox/NBC? The same thing. Pretty much all of the 'good' tv programs, I can download right away, thanks to Bittorrent.
Mixing Mythtv, RSS and Bitorrent is the killer app for media. It's coming soon... I'll just subscribe to shows, and they will just appear on my box... And every other Myth-style Box out there will help spread them. Even better than Tivo, since I can trust someone to manage an good RSS feed and I'll get everything they think I'd like... Or I'll pick 2 feeds, or 3 feeds, or a dozen... Or run one of my own for friends, etc etc.
We are already seeing things like this:
Michael Badnarik (the 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate) using Bittorrent: He's put his entire Constitution Class on downloadable video, for free over the Internet, using BitTorrent. 7 parts, each one hour long.
What would buying Primetime TV for this sort of exposure cost? And who would watch it, all 7 hours, if they did? But this way, grassroot politics, simply by bypassing traditional media! Watch on demand... Educate people... Expose people to ideas they aren't getting on Mass Media.
I want to see this man in a debate with Bush and Kerry now...
Death of traditional Media, due to Growth of Net, predicted, Film at 11.com
Define 'essential services'. Most of the time, your 'essential' is not the same as mine... and so long as government continues to be about taking from one person and giving it to another person, Libertarians will continue to talk about reducing government. When the sole thing, the only thing, government does, and should do, is protect us from each other, Libertarians will be happy, and so will the people who founded this country, who are rolling over in their graves right now.
You feel free to vote for Kush or Berry, I can't see any difference between them, both are evil men , who lie when it suits them, just seeking power... I'll vote for freedom, liberty, and good, in the form of Badnarik.
There is a third requirement for fair elections, and that is balanced coverage. Forget the liberal bias, or the conservative bias, the truth in the US is that there is a 2 party bias. 3rd parties are ignored, and given short coverage in the guide of 'to be fair'.... In Europe, 3rd parties quickly gain recognition due to the mix of ballot variety (lots of parties to consider), election style (more representive focused) and the coverage they get. Here in the US, if you aren't a Republicrat, or a Demopublican, you have to fight for coverage. People with a true shot, ie enough ballots that they could win, or will likely affect the course of the election should be coveraged with EQUAL access
I'm voting for Michael Badnarik Libertarian, who is also on almost all of the ballots
and so should you, if you think Government is out of control. Kush and Berry won't change that, and you're just voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
Vote for Good, vote Badnarik!
The goal is to find 20,000 people.
We're at nearly 6,000 people now.
The only way to we'll go from 6K to 20K in the next year or so is to tell more people about it, aka publicity, aka 'hawking it'.
If you have a better way to find 14K libertarian minded people, please speak up. In my mind, the slashdot crowd tends to be more libertarian, technology freedom/rights aware, and able-to-move due to portable job skills (aka the Internet crowd telecommuting). In other words, a good key demographic for people able to be part of this.
If you've heard about the FSP, you're already in the minority... we come across lots of interested people every day who still haven't heard of it yet.
Well, honey, I was for freedom, but it was just cold for me, so I stayed warm and comfy at home, and let the police state happen around me. Sorry about that.
For those of us in the United States, I strongly urge you to look at things like the Free State Project. (http://www.freestateproject.org)This isn't a bunch of wackos looking to move to Montana for another Waco holdout, it's made of people like you who will stand up, be active, and work within New Hampshire (already the best representative State with only 3000 people per Rep, as well as strongly libertarian minded) to reduce the size of government. It's our only hope, because the more they pass nonsense like this, the more you and your neighbors had better stand together...
If p2p becomes a crime, you want your neighbors to defend you when the thoughtcrime police show up. And don't kid yourselves, we are rapidly coming to that.... The day when you click on the wrong download button and the police knock on your door is already here.
Don't own a computer? Get sued by the RIAA
12 years old? Get sued by the RIAA
66 Years old and never used a computer? Yes, Get sued by the RIAA
Now just imagine the force of the WIPO, and 'the law' bolstering this nonsense...
If you, the receipient of this email/post, believe in freedom and self-responsibility, and live in the United States, you are obligated to consider that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil, and that voting for Badnarik is not a wasted vote, but the only way to vote for good. Remember: Bad(narik) is good!
You are further obligated to seriously consider joining the Free State Project, because moving to New Hampshire is a small price to pay for Liberty.
Offer and restrictions void outside the United States, your rights may vary, but you are encouraged to consider joining the Free State Project anyway.
It's been YEARS now, and this sort of legislation is still not passed. Hmm... why not... Because the Car Makers have the money and don't want it passed.
That was my point. Sorry, I must not have made it clear.
Oh wait... it's about money... that's right.
The RIAA versus the people: the RIAA has the money.
The Car Makers versus the people: The Car Makers have the money.
It's not about principle, it's about money.
There is only one way to fix this: get GOVERNMENT out of the way. Politicians will ALWAYS be bought and sold, unless they lack the power to do anything in the first place. If they couldn't pass a law in the first place, nobody would pay them to pass a law (or ignore a law).
What can you do to reduce government power?
Join the Free State Project, and find out! We're reducing government because power corrupts and government power corrupts double standardly so.
From the intro:
The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to New Hampshire, where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success of the Free State Project would likely entail reductions in burdensome taxation and regulation, reforms in state and local law, an end to federal mandates, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.
The current Libertarian Presidential nominee, Michael Badnarik is a member, as are almost 6,000 others. New Hampshire is a very tech friendly state, considered to be one of the best places to live, no income tax, no sales tax, low unemployment... Join us! We're already making a difference in NH, and most of us haven't even moved yet!
it's all about control for them. What they stop? Who did they help? Who did they 'protect'? Google will spend time and energy fighting this, or have to work around it, and nobody benefits except the lawmakers who claim they 'did the right thing'.
Yeah, just like CANSPAM stopped spam. (it didn't)
Are you tired of government doing things like this? Me too.
That's why I've join the Free State Project. Imagine 20K liberty minded people all standing up for freedom, willing to be politcally active, and using technology and common sense to achieve a free society. We'll advocate for the end of victimless crime laws (no more drug laws, sex laws, nanny laws), allow privacy tools like encryption, and reduce the size government down to as small as we can make it, lowering taxes, and always respect the rights of those around us. Are you even mildly libertarian? Do you believe that this country is becoming more and more about 'You aren't allowed unless the state says so?' Join us, and help achieve liberty in your lifetime.