>Stefan Reich wrote:
>
>> "Here's an interesting issue and one that is well to debate on Slashdot. It
>> is said on just about all the major news networks that there has been an
>> intelligence breakdown. That the terrorists use sophisticated encryption
>> measures and that our intelligence agencies are under-funded and don't have
>> the ability to keep tabs on the terrorists. Question: would you be willing
>> to trade your personal privacy for maybe some further measure of security
>> >from terrorists? Would you grant the people running Carnivore
>>greater rights
>> into your life in order to perhaps prevent more events like this? Is the
>> encryption export ban such a bad thing when stacked against 50,000 people's
>> lives?"
>>
>> (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/11/1842258.shtml)
>
>Nonsense discussion from the outset.
But chillingly serious all the same. Intelligence breakdown? I'll say
- except it happened about 20 years ago when the US "intelligence"
network trained and armed bin Laden to run terror operations against
the russians -
Osama bin Laden comes home to roost: http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp
Salon article on "blowback":
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/blowback/
there's no mention of this in any mainstream media - I guess it must
be 'unpatriotic' to criticize anything that the US gov. does, has
done, or will do. That means, when W announces that
encrypted/anonymous communications are to blame for the disaster,
there will be no rebutal or critique in the media - and running a
freenet node will very quickly be equated with 'harbouring terrorism'.
already people are shutting down remailers, ISPs are installing
carnivore - and I have a hunch that the SSSCA will sail through
congress without debate...
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