https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr003=a2avib2li2.app6a&page=UserAction&cmd=display&id=133
the link above points to the Electronic Frontier Foundations advocacy page regarding the renewal (and extension!) of the PATRIOT act. """The new bill not only makes these highly controversial provisions permanent, it marries the worst aspects of the two, allowing new "administrative subpoenas" in national security cases that would let the government secretly demand all types of records without a judge's permission.""" So basically if this goes through the FBI or a United States Attorney or any of the various arms of the national security state don't even have to ask a judge before demanding that your ISP (or you for that matter, if you are a service provider) turn over log files, payment records, passwords, private keys, etc. Do you want to live in a nation where the Stasi can basically demand everything from you without even having to convince a judge that they have a good reason for it? The bill goes into committee on thursday (a secret session to pass a secret law that will require you to give up your and your customers secrets and to keep secret the fact that you've done so. Not Good.) Our own Senator Ron Wyden is on the committee and if you feel at all strongly about about it, please contact his local office and let them know. Ron Wyden's Eugene Office 151 West 7th Ave. Suite 435 Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 431-0229 ps. Sorry if you think this is OT for the mailinglist, but this is important -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
