[Chapter-delegates] Wikileaks/USG strong arm continued..

[Eric Burger]

Let's look at it if the situation was turned around: someone visits the U.S., which means you cross an international border. At an international border, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can legally seize your laptop and hold it for a week to let the NSA decrypt whatever is on it. [I am not saying this is good or right, but it is the law of the land.] Then, someone with access to your decrypted laptop illegally posts everything on your laptop with the express purpose of embarrassing you.

Are you saying that is OK? Rule of law is only for little guy fighting big government? The rule of law is not for big government fighting little guy?

On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Zaid Ali wrote:

> I think we will be seeing more rhetoric like this. Question is if this is
> just rhetoric or will we see government officials wanting to disrupt
> technical infrastructure?
> 
> http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?ref=ts#!/note.php?note_id=465212788434
> 
> "What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other
> allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the
> cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks?" -Palin
> 
> Zaid
> 
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