Articles tagged as "Civil Liberties"

This story from my hometown of Seattle is further proof that the current airport security procedures are nothing more than window dressing and are leading to the loss of civil rights for innocent people.

At least there is some good and rationality left in the world. This is great.

To all of you who are claiming to this day that with current security knowledge and technology we can have all-electronic voting equipment and still have a meaningful recount, read this story. Un-be-freaking-leivable.

An update to this story: As of Sept 2004, a heavily-redacted report was released that reportedly found fault with some of the RCMP’s handling of the case, but, according to the CBC timeline, claims that the RCMP did not know that the US was planning to arrest and deport him to Syria.

This is such a great line.

Good stuff to refer to from Lawrence Lessig.

Courtesy of EPIC Alert 10.10. https://www.epic.org

John Gilmore points out how to have fun with bomb scanners by using hand lotion with Glycerine, or at least points out how easily such expensive equipment can be rendered useless. If equipment has any significant number of false-positives, be sure that it, or procedures, will tune out any hope of finding a real needle in the haystack.

How do you measure a cost-benefit for the new security measures or of your liberty? It is hard to even come up with a causal link from the “increased” security measures (ask me about the absurd experience I had in LAX…) to increased safety, let alone quantifying such a benefit.

This is a very disturbing development and more reason why the DMCA has a chilling effect on speech and freedom to do legitimate research.