Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws 479
A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar. Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an "i-Patriot Act," to drop in the event of a "cyber-9/11." Clarke responded, "Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won't like it." Lessig's anecdote begins at about 4:30 in the video.
Re:Richard Clarke (Score:0, Funny)
-1, lamebait
Obambi? Seriously? Maybe it isn't Clarke's dimwittedness that you should be concerned about
PPP (Score:2, Funny)
Pay per packet plus lower ping times for people with the "Clear" pass.
Re:Just wait ... (Score:4, Funny)
me too!
Godwin Jr's Law (Score:4, Funny)
All sufficiently long forum threads about a policy where the US government might become involved shall include at least one reference to 9/11 and/or Al Qaida.
Re:And that would basically mean the death of I.T. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah! Let's make our own Internet. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the Internet.
And the blackjack.
Ahh, screw the whole thing.
Re:Just wait ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just wait ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just wait ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just wait ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just wait ... (Score:1, Insightful)
by mvh (9295) on Tuesday August 05, @07:07PM (#24488549) Homepage
Which will hopefully, in turn, force us to create a better network. And perhaps we can start again and this time try to avoid Eternal September. ... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Just wait
by chris_mahan (256577) on Tuesday August 05, @07:09PM (#24488593) Homepage
me too!
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"Piter, too, is dead."
Me too!!!!
Re:And that would basically mean the death of I.T. (Score:2, Funny)
No worrys! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bob Barr in presidential debates (Score:3, Funny)
Ross Perot got on to the debates back between Clinton and Bush....how did he manage to get on those?
Easy, Ross Perot got into the debates because he's a billionaire. He had enough money to buy the mass media, or to start his own.
Falcon
Re:re:Re:Just wait ... (Score:1, Funny)
Remove me from your mailing list please.
i agree
Re:Just wait ... (Score:3, Funny) ... (Score:1, Insightful) ... (Score:2, Funny)
by morgan_greywolf (835522) * Alter Relationship on Tue Aug 05, '08 04:49 PM (#24489011) Homepage Journal
Re:Just wait
by mvh (9295) on Tuesday August 05, @07:07PM (#24488549) Homepage
Which will hopefully, in turn, force us to create a better network. And perhaps we can start again and this time try to avoid Eternal September.
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Re:Just wait
by chris_mahan (256577) on Tuesday August 05, @07:09PM (#24488593) Homepage
me too!
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Re:Just wait ... (Score:1, Funny)
They were just greedy.
Re:Given Bush was _reelected (Score:3, Funny)
Since he was referring to corporations, I agree. But if you add politics to the mix, "a muck" is the correct term to use.