On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 08:19:45AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > And there will be lots of criminal prosecutions. Because breaking a > > digital lock is illegal in the US and soon also in Canada no matter what > > the purpose is. (Well, there are a few exceptions, but I haven't > > noticed installing Linux being one of them) > > I wish it were that easy: enough prosecutions against people installing > GNU/Linux on their desktops would bring bad publicity to these > ridiculous laws. > The real problem is that the bad guys are finally learning about real > crypto, so breaking those digital locks is becoming *real* hard, so you > can't even break the law in a "civil disobedience" kind of way.
Yes. That's part of it. The worse is that these technologies are going to get used for censorship and for sabotaging democratic policy-making. No doubt I haven't even thought of the worst yet. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
