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

[Zaid Ali]

On 12/5/10 4:07 AM, "Eric Burger" <eburger at standardstrack.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 

This situation would be embarrassing for the US government wouldn't it? They
seized my laptop (probably arrested me) and couldn't keep the evidence
secure. The posting would help me since it would be evidence that the USG
can't secure evidence and flies in the face of due process. From a legal
standpoint this would really look bad since evidence got tampered with and
shows that the USG can't execute the law properly and if I wasn't a US
citizen I would get international lawyers involved before the ride to
Guantanamo.

Are you condoning these politicians in saying that it is OK to disrupt
technical infrastructure? I am confused since I thought we belong to
Internet Society where the Internet is for everyone. I think that Internet
freedom is under attack here but perhaps I am the only one having that
internal existential feeling.

Zaid


> 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 Wikileaks¹ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the
>> cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks?" -Palin
>> 
>> Zaid
>> 
>> 
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