What a lot of people feared(inc me)is that after the terrorist attack in new york new laws will be presented in countreys all over the world that will short in the privacy and punish minor crime`s like hacking in the name of terrorism.
US Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Capitol Hill Monday afternoon to sell the Bush Administration's new slew of anti-terror laws to the House Judiciary Committee. |
Among the many provisions to make the entire US populace an Enemy of the State and therefore subject to suspicion were two which nearly gave me a stroke: one positively Nazi innovation enabling the indefinite detention of suspicious aliens with a prohibition on judicial review so no judge can stop the insanity (which proves that they know it's unconstitutional); and one which would elevate hacking to the level of a terrorist act and invoke a mandatory life sentence.
The old Hamre/Clark dream of preemptively prosecuting the 'Electronic Pearl Harbor' is alive and well in the hands of Bush's advisors.
"The Administration's bill includes provisions for the prosecution of certain computer crimes as terrorist offences. What about this type of offense makes it necessary to include them in the definition of terrorism," he asked suggestively.
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Source: The Register
