Poor Cyber Defenses

• Afraid of cyber-terrorism?

  • Shut down web sites with ideas we don't like
    • FBI shut down sites - what about freedom of speech?
  • Let's allow federal government searches at discretion
    • Judges order not needed for 'terrorism' computer searches
  • Mass interception of network traffic information
    • Correlation of traffic to find who associates with whom
  • Create comprehensive government databases
    • Corporations already do it - why not the government?
  • Make all nontrivial copying of information illegal
    • No more fair use, chilling effect on research and education

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