A Day Without A Computer Administrator
Following up on my previous post about the Bush administration using child pornography as a reason to force ISPs to store records regarding all of your web access, a post over at Identity Woman got me thinking . . .
Maybe we should have a “day without a computer admin”; we could all shut down our networks and march in the streets to protest big brother’s attempt to put us Internet users down.
Just to drive the point home, the CNet Article point out:
Critics of DeGette’s proposal have said that, while the justification for Internet surveillance might be protecting children, the data would be accessible to any local or state law enforcement official investigating anything from drug possession to tax evasion. In addition, the one-year retention is a minimum; the FCC would receive the authority to require Internet companies to keep records “for not less than one year after a subscriber ceases to subscribe to such services.”
Scary, every site you visit would be logged and the data would be accessible to law enforcement at a moments notice. I guess the terrorist boogey man is played out . . . now they are playing the child porn card.
But seriously, ISPs don’t regularly log, let alone store the kind of data that these guys are trying to mandate . . . the volume of data is huge!
I’m turning off my logs right now in protest. Now were did I put that TOR install file . . .
