-------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- Subject: [Politech] Weekly column: The Specter-Leahy bill's Net crackdown [fs] From: "Declan McCullagh" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, July 4, 2005 8:11 pm To: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
http://news.com.com/The+coming+Web+security+woes/2010-1071_3-5772012.html The coming Web security woes July 4, 2005, 6:00 AM PT By Declan McCullagh Our esteemed leaders in the U.S. Congress are vowing to enact new laws targeting data thieves, backup-tape burglars and other information-age miscreants. We should be worried. Any reasonable person, of course, should agree that such thefts must be punished and data warehouses should let us know if our information falls into the hands of criminals. But a bill announced last week by Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., goes far beyond reasonable data security precautions. It amounts to a crackdown on individuals, bloggers and legitimate e-mail list moderators. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. - Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
