[CT] [Fwd: FC: House votes 385-3 for wiretaps, life sent. for malicious hackers]

[Daniel Moran]

Been a hell of a day, hasn't it?

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-china-sanitary-internet0715jul14.story

Yahoo agrees to censor its Chinese internet operations -- Yahoo's been my 
home page most of the last 5 years. I just made QueenOfAngels.com my home page.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html

US plans to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies.

"The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens 
as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups."

I'm not alarmed. I don't actually want a swastika, but I would like to know 
when they're going to start handing out those nifty jackboots. I've got a 
couple of people I could inform on if there was a nifty pair of jackboots 
in it for me.

At 04:39 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:

>Wow.  Who'da thought that Real Life would so soon outstrip The
>Unification in terms of outright stupid lawmaking when it comes to
>Play... uh "hackers"...
>
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>Text of bill:
>http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.03482:
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>Who voted (Rep. Ron Paul, Rep. Jeff Miller, Rep. Kucinich opposed):
>http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=296
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>    House OKs life sentences for hackers
>    By Declan McCullagh
>    July 15, 2002, 6:00 PM PT
>
>    WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly
>    approved a bill that would allow for life prison sentences for
>    malicious computer hackers.
>
>    By a 385-3 vote, the House approved a computer crime bill that also
>    expands police ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping
>    without first obtaining a court order.
>
>    The Bush administration had asked Congress to approve the Cyber
>    Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) as a way of responding to electronic
>    intrusions, denial of service attacks and the threat of
>    "cyber-terrorism." The CSEA had been written before the Sept. 11
>    terrorist attacks last year, but the events spurred legislators toward
>    Monday evening's near-unanimous vote.
>
>    [...]
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