http://nmhall.com/2009/02/20/civil-liberties-vs-safety-the-battle-continues/ A blog of musings and discoveries on technology, food, life in Lake Worth, South Florida of Nathan Hall Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:02:23 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nmhall.com/2009/02/20/civil-liberties-vs-safety-the-battle-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Evil Lincoln Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:34:19 +0000 http://nmhall.com/?p=271#comment-146 This bill sucks, to say the least. It's always ass-hats using the cover of "the children, we must protect the children" that make things worse for adults. Mind you, I'm not defending child abusers here but why do we only care about children? Is humanity worthless once it's not cute and cuddly anymore? Anyways, any attempts to hold a wi-fi provider legally responsible for what someone else did with the connection in a public place is insane! It was this same logic that doomed public telephone booths back in the early 1990's. (Well, that and cell phones.) Because "some" people used phones to do drug deals, the cops were able to force phone companies to shut off phones at nights in certain areas. So dealers got pagers but if you were a lonely traveler needing to make a call to say a hotel or a gas station late at night, you were out of luck for something that was not your fault. Lame! This bill sucks, to say the least. It’s always ass-hats using the cover of “the children, we must protect the children” that make things worse for adults. Mind you, I’m not defending child abusers here but why do we only care about children? Is humanity worthless once it’s not cute and cuddly anymore? Anyways, any attempts to hold a wi-fi provider legally responsible for what someone else did with the connection in a public place is insane! It was this same logic that doomed public telephone booths back in the early 1990′s. (Well, that and cell phones.) Because “some” people used phones to do drug deals, the cops were able to force phone companies to shut off phones at nights in certain areas. So dealers got pagers but if you were a lonely traveler needing to make a call to say a hotel or a gas station late at night, you were out of luck for something that was not your fault. Lame!

]]> http://nmhall.com/2009/02/20/civil-liberties-vs-safety-the-battle-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Jeff Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:53:33 +0000 http://nmhall.com/?p=271#comment-136 Hah, i'd love to see them try to enforce that one, even if they passed it you can bet that within 24 hours a software maker would have a program to hide your info from access points, just not sure this is the best way to go about it. It does raise an interesting question though, if you have an open wifi access point and someone does something illegal using it, can you be held responsible? Hah, i’d love to see them try to enforce that one, even if they passed it you can bet that within 24 hours a software maker would have a program to hide your info from access points, just not sure this is the best way to go about it. It does raise an interesting question though, if you have an open wifi access point and someone does something illegal using it, can you be held responsible?

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