Comments on: Great FISA Comparison Flowchart http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/News/2008/07/15/great-fisa-comparison-flowchart/ Quit Dreaming Like a Pussy! Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:57:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Viking Brian http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/News/2008/07/15/great-fisa-comparison-flowchart/#comment-402 Viking Brian Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:37:44 +0000 http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/News/?p=299#comment-402 i think it will be interesting to see what effect this has on business. we've now put ourselves comfortably at the top of the intelligence mountain legally (at least in american courts) able to capture and go through everyone's emails who is not an american citizen. the advantages that will give us in international business dealings will be substantial... and the ingenuity in encryption technologies should explode. i know there's folks already working on a version of ParanoidLinux http://paranoidlinux.org/ and here's a nice thread from boingboing on how to protect your ass http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/11/howto-protect-your-o.html i think this will certainly bring advantage to the forces who are attempting to fight real terrorism, strangling down communication channels electronically. unfortunately, this is also going to bring a seriously arhimaic fucking stand still to forces of change, culture and innovation in both the public and the private sector. i'm a strange mix of ambivalent and kind of sad about this. it seems inevitable and fairly destructive. i wish we could have done better. i think it will be interesting to see what effect this has on business. we’ve now put ourselves comfortably at the top of the intelligence mountain legally (at least in american courts) able to capture and go through everyone’s emails who is not an american citizen. the advantages that will give us in international business dealings will be substantial… and the ingenuity in encryption technologies should explode. i know there’s folks already working on a version of ParanoidLinux http://paranoidlinux.org/ and here’s a nice thread from boingboing on how to protect your ass http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/11/howto-protect-your-o.html

i think this will certainly bring advantage to the forces who are attempting to fight real terrorism, strangling down communication channels electronically. unfortunately, this is also going to bring a seriously arhimaic fucking stand still to forces of change, culture and innovation in both the public and the private sector.

i’m a strange mix of ambivalent and kind of sad about this. it seems inevitable and fairly destructive. i wish we could have done better.

]]> By: nathan http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/News/2008/07/15/great-fisa-comparison-flowchart/#comment-401 nathan Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:12:56 +0000 http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/News/?p=299#comment-401 it's the data-mining again. i really do think that some of bush's business-military-intelligence-industrial complex body have some serious sci-fi schemes in the works. it’s the data-mining again. i really do think that some of bush’s business-military-intelligence-industrial complex body have some serious sci-fi schemes in the works.

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