Neil Schwartzman ha scritto:
DOMAINS are a privilege not a right.
Ok, I'm not sure you got my point. Here in Italy, when I open a bank account, the bank has to ask me whether I want to make my information "public" or not. If I say no, they will only use it for the strictly necessary activities to manage my bank account. If I say yes, then they will share it with other companies, use it for marketing, etc. The bank account is a, well, "privilege" - but my privacy is a right, so the law says that I must not be required to give away my privacy just to get a bank account. This is absolutely independent of whether I really need the bank account or not! It applies even if I were to buy "diamond-studded swimming pools" (hint). The law even allows me to be delisted from telephone books - this of course doesn't mean that the telephone company doesn't know who I am or can't tell the police or any authorized party if necessary. Why can't we have something like that?
by the way. I look at spam, spyware, and phishing as the most urgent of daily attacks on personal privacy which outstrip the occasions of the needs of an individual to have a personal domain upon which their free speech is simply not contingent on the order of 100s of millions to one.
You still miss the point that I don't have to have a reason to exercise my right to keep my personal information private. On the other hand, I totally agree that phishing and spyware are very serious problems - I'm just asking why can't there be a solution that lets you do your investigations under reasonable accountability frameworks (as any kind of investigation in any civilized country, including private ones, for which, at least here, you need a license) and yet not disclose my data just to everyone out there.
Perhaps, finding acceptable middle ground could be a better way to get out of this deadlock, rather than questioning the legitimacy of each other's requests.
No, the bay guys move much faster than LEA is able to do given their constraints.
Come on. We could easily get rid of rapers and drug dealers by giving guns to each citizen, and the freedom to use them without "constraints". I guess you understand why we have "constraints" and why many of us are not happy with getting rid of them so easily. I still refuse to think that there cannot be a way to conduct effective investigations without turning the Internet into a mass surveillance tool. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------