Memo: Bush Regime to Silence Dogood -- STFU!

Slashdot reporting:

"Protecting anonymity isn't a fight that can be won. Anyone that's typed in their name on Google understands that," said Kerr. Kurt Opsahl of the EFF said Kerr ignores the distinction between sacrificing protection from an intrusive government and voluntarily disclosing information in exchange for a service. "There is something fundamentally different from the government having information about you than private parties. We shouldn't have to give people the choice between taking advantage of modern communication tools and sacrificing their privacy."

Great. Just great. Brilliant. Yeah, THIS will really show those terrorists that they can't ruin our Legacy of Liberty. What's next? Look for the Bush Nazis to pull a Musharraf in the name of Foreign Surveillance Intelligence? Think it could never happen in America? That's what many day-to-day Germans thought, too. Besides, what can a nation of 300 lb. consumer cattle do about it? Answer: Absolutely nothing.

At least, that's what the machievellian pinheads would LIKE you to believe; but the truth about how much we should trust our government versus our own individual ability to act is a bit more complicated than that. Now more than ever is the time to advocate, educate, and actively support the Electronic Frontier Foundation and development of frameworks such as Open Source Physical Security (which, to the best of my understanding does NOT mean merely using something like LAMP with bolt-on iris readers -- although that could be one tiny part of the framework).

In contrast, OSPS means Open Source-style Security for the Whole Physical World and "preparing for bizarreness" as defined by the Girly Geeks over at She's Geeky and an important key Working Topic for Penguicon 6.0, April 18-20, 2008 in Troy, MI.