12 Sep
2002
12 Sep
'02
3:16 p.m.
Quothe John Allain, from writings of Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:28:28PM -0400:
There's probably a good story here, but one that I
personally
haven't lived... For those of us who shop at Hamfests, you
may have heard that owning and operating certain types of legal
radio equipment before WWII apparently became illegal after it started.
Illegal to own it? Zog! When are we going to start hearing that
owning computers with mass storage devices, computers designed to use
mass storage devices, or mass storage devices, are illegal acts? How
soon before the illegal posession of "controlled devices" will be as
serious, or more serious, a crime as the illegal posession of
"controlled substances?" Next, it will be illegal (or at least easier
to get caught... it's probably already illegal) to open up one's cable
TV converter box to check for hidden microphones and cameras.
How long before we're all going to have to begin using "internet
appliances" so that we can't do subversive things like keeping backups
of our own data? Will it soon become a federal felony to use
computers that aren't connected to the Internet all of the time so
that they can be spied on at any time?
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