What is being proposed for new laws scares me more than any hacker.
Contact your rep in congress and tell them that. They dont read hackerness unfortunately.
Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
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#12Am I crazy for wanting to leave the US?
Is it like this everywhere?
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#13I don't understand how the Sony hack relates to the proposed changes to the CFAA. If the attacker was North Korea--as suggested by the administration (which I don't believe)--then how would increasing penalties for "hacking" or developing (or even sharing) "hacking tools" make a difference? As if we had any jurisdiction whatsoever over there or that the laws of the United States would somehow deter foreign attackers.…
> I don't understand how the Sony hack relates to the proposed changes to the CFAA.
I'm guessing that the lobbyists behind SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, etc have been trying to push something like this for a while, but now think that the Sony hack has scared enough people that the bill can appear like it has popular support.
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#14Am I crazy for wanting to leave the US? Is it like this everywhere?
Where would you go?
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#15What is being proposed for new laws scares me more than any hacker.
Contact your rep in congress and tell them that. They dont read hackerness unfortunately.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, if they watched Inconvenient Truth, it might benefit some of the knuckleheads there. Or 12 Years a Slave. Or even Lincoln.
Well the Congressional Cinema Club could put on some special showings and ask for sponsorship - Car Manufacturers Lobby: Bullit - Anti Car Lobby: Duel - Trans-Atlantic Airlines Lobby : Titanic - Construction Lobby: Bridge over the River Kwai - Elon Musk : Iron Man 1 or 3 (but not 2) - The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man - The Banjo Players association of America: Deliverance - Tesla Car Showrooms: Death of a s…
"The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man"
I'm curious; what you mean by this one?
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#17Am I crazy for wanting to leave the US? Is it like this everywhere?
I left in 2013 and my paranoia level has decreased since.
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#18Computer Crime laws are already insanely disproportionate. They were created during a moral panic when only a few individuals, large multinationals and, large governments had computers and the government were worried that "hackers" could break into the electricity grid or the communications system and shut it down. So right now you could literally break into someone's home, knock them unconscious, and then steal thei…
> In particular are comic cases of when companies fail to secure things at all (e.g. leave data exposed to the public via hidden URLs) and then someone gets prosecuted because they "hacked" that company and "stole" that data.
Which is my main concern with all the attention and push for change (or rather more laws and less privacy) in relation to the Sony hack (among others). Would Congress and the media be calling for equitable action if someone had physically broken in to the Sony Films offices and stolen the data, due to lax (physical) security policies? Doubtful, they'd probably be told to buy better locks...