At 7:02 PM -0700 7/24/00, sunder wrote:
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>IMHO, this is the wrong fucken tactic. We shouldn't bother pressuring
>them to release source code. Fuck the source code. We should force
>them to remove said carnivores rather than demand inspection. They
>have no business on any network. They are the equivalent of being
>forced to quarter soldiers in ones place of business - never mind home.
>
>What's next? Will the Feds demand to install cameras in every room to
>prevent kids from being raped by their parents? Spousal abuse? Drug
>abuse?
>
>It is insane that such things are even being considered as ok if
>examined. Would you say "Ok, I'll let you place the camera in my
>bedroom so long as I see the schematics?"
I think this is exactly the right point. The Third Amendment, about
quartering troops, is seldom-applied.
But if I own a computer and I rent out accounts to others and the FBI
comes to me and says "We are putting a Carnivore computer in your
place," how else can this be interpreted _except_ as a violation of
the Third?
But there is no hope for legal and constitutional challenges. They
use _our_ money to proliferate new travesties faster than groups like
the ACLU and EFF and mount challenges, raise funds, and challenge
these unconstitutional acts. And if, by some slim chance, a court
strikes down one such law, they have a hundred slight variants on the
law ready to go in a thousand other jurisdictions.
It's hopeless. Only technology, and terrorism, will work.
--Tim May
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