Re: Civil Disobedience

["CJ Oster" <cjo () dothe12 com>]

I personally wrote all of the congressmen in the committee that was
reviewing the (one of the?) matters before it went to the floor to be voted
on.  I suggest we all, along with any and all of your coworkers that may
also be concerned, email your respective senators, representatives, and the
president.  (Or even better, call them).  I apologize for the cliché, but it
stands that "if we outlaw guns, only criminals will have them".  Applying to
our situation, tools, knowledge etc are the guns and if we don't have them
here in America to protect our selves, they surely will in other
countries--and use them against us, as terrorists which the FBI cannot
arrest and we will only be worse off than before.  You can find your
congress-persons' email addresses at:

http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm (senate) and
http://www.house.gov/writerep/ (web form for the house).

Of course, don't forget president () whitehouse gov.  Also, the Whitehouse
phone number is 202-456-1414, although I wouldn't expect to get to talk to
anybody of importance.  Maybe if you are more important than I am you should
call.

-CJO-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix von Leitner" <leitner () convergence de>
To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Civil Disobedience


> Thus spake John Thornton (jthornton () hackersdigest com):
> >  I ask each and every one of you to join me in this protest.
>
> Why not conduct port scans from the IP of the White House, Capitol, CIA,
> DEA and other law enforcement agencies and see whom the FBI arrests?
>
> This is some serious shit, people!  Not reporting is not the way to go.
> This law has to be proven ineffective and harmful.  That means:
>
>   a. computer crime must not go down, or they will think the law was
>      effective
>   b. computer crim must not go up, or they will make laws with even more
>      severe punishment.
>
> Talk to your representatives about this!  Explain to them that this law
> makes it impossible to learn computer security from the ground up, which
> means that there will be no more qualified new computer security people
> in ten years, which means all the good security companies will not be in
> the USA, which means less jobs, less taxes and more poverty.
>
> Felix