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[DMCA-Activists] Re: [C-Fit_Community] Stallman: Can You Trust Your Comp
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[DMCA-Activists] Re: [C-Fit_Community] Stallman: Can You Trust Your Computer? |
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Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:40 +0100 |
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this is a great article, it really cuts through the rhetoric that has
been used in the name of 'anti-terrorism' yet really means corporate and
governmental control.
one question that i have about the Patriot act and other so-called
'anti-terrorist' legislation - does the law discriminate at all between
a skript kiddie replacing index.html for fun, and a so-called 'cyber
terrorist' ? the impression that i'm getting is that skript kiddies are
being labelled as cyber-terrorists and are facing the same charges and
sentences, in order to legitimise CBDTPA legislation under not-so-subtle
twists in rhetoric. yet there is in fact some kind of reality to 'cyber
terrorist' threat - a surprisingly balanced article from msn.com
outlines this (although it is a re-publishing of a ZDnet article... this
explains perhaps the balance!)... http://msn.com.com/2100-1105-955293.html
i have been discussion the reality of cyber-terrorist threat versus the
government hype and rhetoric with various cryptographers and
professionals involved in protecting national resources against a *real*
cyber-attack, and we seem to have come to the same conclusions...
attention is being directed in completely the wrong area in order to
legitimise attacks on people wishing to share music and software, and
comparitively little is being done to secure SCADAs and DCSs from more
realistic threats.
what i would like to know is if there is any discrimination in
'anti-terrorist' legislation between a music swapper or a skript kiddie,
and the negligent amount of 'damage' (if you actually consider it
damaging!) they might cause, compared with a cyber attack designed to
say, bring down the national grid? i suspect that the same laws and
therefore the same sentences cover both - a situation which is blatantly
unjust.
thanks
miriam
Seth Johnson wrote:
http://www.nyfairuse.org/analysis/trech.comp.xhtml
Can you trust your computer?
-By Richard Stallman -
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