:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.01.2003 ::
:: Patriot II update ::
From MSNBC:
Encryption could lead to jail time
DRAFT LEGISLATION circulating in the Justice Department would extend prison sentences for scrambling data in the commission of a crime, something encryption advocates fear would achieve little in catching terrorists — and only hurt legitimate uses of cryptography.
“Why should the fact that you use encryption have anything to do with how guilty you are and what the punishment should be?” asks Stanton McCandlish of the CryptoRights Foundation, which teaches human rights workers to use encryption. “Should we have enhanced penalties because someone wore an overcoat?”
Such law enforcement tools sought after the Sept. 11 attacks are expected to be among top discussion items at the annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, that begins Wednesday in New York.
From Geek.com:
Justice Department contemplates encryption law
From InfoWorld:
CFP puts spotlight on privacy post-9/11
Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy kicks off on Wednesday
[More information on the conference can be found here.]
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