On Sep 10, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Juha Saarinen wrote:
I believe ISOC is making that point, too.
Unfortunately, all the technical 'calls to arms' foofaraw is obscuring this point - and so the general populace (those who care, anyways) assume it's a technical problem which will be fixed by technical people, rather than something that they themselves can and must work to address, if they aren't happy with the status quo.
It does seem odd that it's fine for certain unsupervised surveillance organisations to make use of "hacking" in a manner that would see normal people prosecuted and receive lengthy prison sentences, especially in the United States.
All the activity that's been publicly reported rests upon supposedly legal grounds, however specious. Closing loopholes and making the implicit explicit in order to preclude 'generous' interpretations should be the goal of those who are unhappy with the present state of affairs.
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