US 'war czar' to attack internet safe havens

The internet may be about to become a more dangerous place. Al-Qaida’s intangibles, according to Lute, consist primarily of its use of the Internet as a tool to conduct communications, training, and command and control. “They have a safe haven on the Internet,“ he said. “No one in the U.S. military has been tasked with the mission of attacking these intangibles. Until we do they will operate with impunity.”

In what would be a first for the US, it's to be hoped that Lute can manage to avoid any cases of friendly fire as he launches his digital assault.

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The US copyright con is out of control

This morning the American government has seriously talked about locking people up for life for making illegal copies of Windows. We should not be too surprised, for the last two or three years this idea of stealing people's ideas, music or videos has been a major obsession, particularly with American law makers.

To an observer, the US legal system looks pretty much a pile of lunacy, where vengeful reactionary laws are bypassed by the rich. The Paris Hiltons of this world get their sentences cut and the poor end up being sentenced for years for the same offence. But it will finally reach the point of absurdity when you can be locked up for life because someone copies a bit of software or a song.

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