What 9-11 did to real-world laws via the Patriot Act...

[LL]

...a cyber version of 9-11 will inevitably do to the digital world (primarily Internet). Predicts Lawerence Lessig, anyway, who is familiar with what's in play and is certainly no fool.

http://boingboing.net/2008/08/05/lawrence-lessig-on-t.html

I wonder what the Net will look like after the Digital branch of Homeland Security gets done with it? :lol:

 

[Patrick]

If the Government gets their hands on the internet to a certain extent, I'm sure this site will be banned sooner or later.

 

[Markx]

I note that Egypt managed to close down internal communications, net and cellphones at the flick of a switch.

BTW, this is a GB blog/forum I frequent:
http://www.oldholborn.net/


And this blog/forum is the one most read by british politicians:
http://order-order.com/

If you check the comments you'll find the openness refreshing...

 

[jhuggett]

We can't even come close to securing our government networks yet let alone police the rest of it. :lol: