[liberationtech] And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys rear their ugly heads

[Shava Nerad]

Earlier today, btw, I predicted that this is why CISPA had a chance of
passing the Senate, unless Leahy or some other eloquent champion spends
considerable political and social capital smacking it down.

Awful timing.

The House had been planning "cybersecurity week" for this week for months.
I am not quite enough of a paranoid hippie to suspect these events were
engineered to promote the cybersecurity bills and budget lines.  That would
be insane.  However, the events of this week will be used for that precise
purpose.   It's a very grim gift horse

Sigh...

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Shava Nerad
shava23 at gmail.com
On Apr 18, 2013 8:28 PM, "Yosem Companys" <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
>
> And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys
> rear their ugly heads
>
> "We Need More Cameras, and We Need Them Now"
>
> http://j.mp/14A4fY1  (Slate)
>
>    "Cities under the threat of terrorist attack should install networks of
>     cameras to monitor everything that happens at vulnerable urban
>     installations. Yes, you don't like to be watched. Neither do I. But of
>     all the measures we might consider to improve security in an age of
>     terrorism, installing surveillance cameras everywhere may be the best
>     choice. They're cheap, less intrusive than many physical security
>     systems, and-as will hopefully be the case with the Boston
>     bombing-they can be extremely effective at solving crimes."
>
>  - - -
>
> This kind of misguided and factually vacuous proposal is more
> dangerous to freedom than all the terrorism on the planet.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein (lauren at vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
> Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility:
> http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
> Founder:
>  - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
>  - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
>  - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
>  - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance:
> http://www.gctip.org
> Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
> Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
> Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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