Packaged with the Anti-terrorism Act being proposed by the Department of Justice is a provision which would classify some computer criminals as terrorists. This means that they would face mandatory sentences of life in prison for things like breaking into computers and releasing viruses. Read the whole article, there are plenty of other [...]
Entries from September 2001
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
More attack URLs from RRE.
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
The BBC has the best article I’ve yet seen on President Bush’s order to freeze the assets of 27 individuals and organizations. The article also has a list of the 27 parties involved.
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
I transferred all of the links in the weblog to a different database server at pair.com. Please send email if you get any of the database errors that have plagued this site in the past. As far as I can tell, the site is significantly faster now.
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
John Ashcroft testified before the House Judiciary committee today and asked that they throw out the Constitution. He requested 51 changes to existing law that would allow the Justice Department to do things like deport aliens who unknowingly contribute to organizations which support terrorism and detain aliens (legal or illegal) indefinitely without charging them [...]
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Life is already getting a lot worse for regular people in Afghanistan. Not only are thousands of them abandoning their homes and heading for the nearest border in anticipation of an American attack, but the Taliban raided a UN aid office in Kaldahar, siezed all of the communications equipment, and took 1,400 tons of [...]
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Slate has a report from Peshawar, Pakistan on public demonstrations there. In the report he discusses the theory common among the Pakistanis that Israel was behind the attacks. Several Muslims I’ve spoken with have also theorized that Israel was behind the attacks, and one person told me that they thought Serbia might be [...]
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Did you know that the first President Bush used the rhetorical flourish of holding up a dead cop’s badge during his campaign against Michael Dukakis in 1988?
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Here’s a post from the cypherpunk archive elaborating on the Phil Zimmerman article I posted a link to on Saturday.
September 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Bush is looking for carte blanche to give money to foreign regimes regardless of their human rights record or past military misdeeds. On one hand, I think that we should give governments the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, but on the other hand I don’t want to see us selling guns and [...]