I never intended Astroroach to be a political blog, but both the congress and the administration seem to be working overtime on invasive new laws. It's tempting to just let it go. The public seems steeped in ignorance and apathy - "don't know and don't care". I can't do anything about the apathy but I can at least help with the ignorance. If people still choose to let the assault on privacy continue, at least they were warned.
EFF: DeepLinks: "The Convention on Cybercrime is a sweeping treaty that has been waiting in the wings of the Senate for nearly three years. Now the administration is putting pressure on the Senate to ratify it in the next two days. If it does, it would mean the U.S. would enforce not just our own, but the rest of the world's bad Net laws. Call your Senator now, and ask them to hold its ratification.
The treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other countries' 'cybercrime' laws - even if the act being prosecuted is not illegal in the United States. That means that countries that have laws limiting free speech on the Net could oblige the F.B.I. to uncover the identities of anonymous U.S. critics, or monitor their communications on behalf of foreign governments. American ISPs would be obliged to obey other jurisdiction's requests to log their users’ behavior without due process, or compensation. "
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