Janet Reno calls for internet security legislation

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check out this post on y2k Bugwatch:

http://www.michaelhyatt.com/discuss/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000578.html

It talks about hackers and the most frightening part is that Janet Reno is calling for sweeping, borderless, regulatory legislation for the internet. She scares me.

-- Mia (jnmpow@flash.net), January 14, 2000

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She's jumping on the bandwagon (or rolling on it, I should say, heh) but the truth is the pentagon/NSA already has a multibil dollar program on the board for this; I guess she's tryin to convince folks it's "for the good of the children..."

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 14, 2000.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

federal officials have described the hackers' activities as "unwelcome visits"

Saaaaaay... isn't that the chinese term for hackers? Things that make you go hmmmmm

see also: Janet Reno Proposes Online Police Squad

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), January 15, 2000.


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