gizmodo.com— Maybe you don't care about the doings in Washington, but you may want to know that Biden considers a lot of what you do care about computer "criminal" activity.
Oct 9, 2008View in Crawl 4
He asked Congress to spend $1 billion to monitor peer-to-peer activity. (In fairness, much of this is to prevent child pornography, but the tactic is apparently a little blunt.)• Two Biden bills have been explicitly anti-encryption, because you know, encryption makes it hard for the FBI to read people's e-mails.• He has expressed support for internet taxes and internet filtering in schools and libraries.Gestapo time kiddies!
Closed AccountOct 10, 2008
He asked Congress to spend $1 billion to monitor peer-to-peer activity. (In fairness, much of this is to prevent child pornography, but the tactic is apparently a little blunt.)• Two Biden bills have been explicitly anti-encryption, because you know, encryption makes it hard for the FBI to read people's e-mails.• He has expressed support for internet taxes and internet filtering in schools and libraries.Gestapo time kiddies!
ozel01Oct 10, 2008
Seems a majority of the techies out there are really upset about this side of Biden.
inverselogicOct 10, 2008
Surely the checks and balances of our system would make sure that crazy stuff doesn't get passed right?(LOL).