2009/4/16 John Francis <[email protected]>: > > I think you're making more of this than it warrants.
Glad to hear it, John. :-) > The wording of the proposed bill is rather troublesome in parts, but > mostly it doesn't offer any new powers that are not already available > to the president in a declared emergency. And any extensions will > need to stand up to constitutional challenge before the supreme court, > which has generally not been over-eager to favour imperial presidency. Had a discussion about IP surveillance with my colleagues, and one mentioned that Sweden actually passed a very similar bill half a year ago. Once mentioned, I remembered the uproar here in Norway too. Most of our internet traffic (apart from a modest line via Spitsbergen to USA) is routed through the Swedish infrastructure. So in practice, their new legislation states a right to eavesdrop on all traffic from Norway to the rest of the world... On the other hand, I can't imagine there's much to fear. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
