Borklog: One entry

20 September 2001

An essay, Freedom Flees in Terror from Sept. 11 Disaster. Unfortunately, many folks I hear are conflating the loss of conveniences ("gee, you lose curb-side checkin. wah. get over it") and the loss of civil liberties. The rapid installation of Carnivore (the FBI email sniffing technology) makes me nervous, plus the current attempts at castrating encryption technology by the congress make me scared. Do you think that will stop the Bad Guys from using encryption? No - they'll just use technologies without governmental back doors. I have no faith in our government bodies will ever give up power they have - this "war against terrorism" will probably be as effective as the "war against drugs", and drag on for decades.

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