-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:39:42 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: "U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law' "U.S. On Verge of 'Electronic Martial Law'--Researcher" Newsbytes (10/15/01); Featherly, Kevin The United States is unduly clamping down on the Internet in order to root out terrorist activities online, argues University of Illinois professor Heidi Brush, who says the federal government would do better to rethink the conceptual framework of U.S. communications instead. She spoke at the recent Internet Research 2.0 gathering for the Association of Internet Researchers. Although offering no concrete fixes to the problem, Professor Brush painted a grim picture of "Internet martial law" being imposed in a vain attempt to capture distributed terrorist groups. Terrorists' style of "Net war," a term coined earlier by experts at the RAND policy think tank, would prove elusive to counter by the lumbering centralized government, she said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171130.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/