Next Up: the Jamming Wars 209
chicksdaddy writes "ITWorld has an interesting opinion piece on the next privacy battleground, which they say will be over citizens' rights to use jamming technology to (forcibly) opt-out of ubiquitous surveillance, as sensors pop up in more and more public spaces and private homes alike. 'Given the rapid pace of technological change, we don't know exactly what the future holds for us. But one thing is certain: personal privacy is going to turn from a "right" to a "fight" in the next decade, as individuals take up arms against government and private sector snooping on their personal lives.' The article mentions some skirmishes that have already occurred: employees using GPS jamming hardware to prevent employers from tracking their every movement, and the crush of new business for encrypted voice, video and texting services like SilentCircle (up 400% in the last two months). 'Absent the protection of the law, citizens should be expected to do what they do elsewhere: take matters into their own hands: latching onto tools and technology to give them the privacy that they aren't afforded by the legal system. However, there may not be an easy technology fix for ubiquitous, unregulated surveillance. Writing in Wired this week, Jathan Sadowski warns that the tendency for individuals to focus on securing their own data and communications and using technology to do may be misleading. 'The problem is that focusing on one or both of these approaches distracts from the much-needed political reform and societal pushback necessary to dig up a surveillance state at its root,' Sadowski writes."
I'm Having Trouble with the Radar Sir (Score:4, Funny)
Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: Lone Star!
Re:When Paintball Guns are Outlawed... (Score:5, Funny)
As a wise man once said (Score:3, Funny)
Ooh, yeah! All right!
We're jammin':
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too.
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow:
I'n'I will see you through,
'Cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice,
Jammin' till the jam is through.
We don't need the NSA
To record the things we say
Or the things we dooooo
No matter how we try
we're surounded by Wi-Fi
transmissions tooooooo
Now dey watch us wid their drones
and their trackin our cell phones
I guess we scroooooooed
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we won't bow;
Info can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; Jah - Jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold.