~~ Every body uses the web these days to make their lives simpler ; even Bin Laden & Co.
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The question is: Am I prepared to give up some cyber-liberty to increase Government's need for cyber-counter-terrorism?
Is terrorism -- or the threat of -- the price we pay for living in a free society?
Or must we allow our governments to ask citizens to show a passport to go onto the internet. Am I as a law abiding citizen, prepared to surrender privacy for the privilege of using the internet?
Or as a citizen with a voice, am I not entitled to unfettered access to the Internet, without any government interference?
To tell you the truth, I really do not know how I feel here. When human lives are at stake, the balances between rights, privileges and principles are not simple.
Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138_pf.html
Al Qaeda's innovation on the Web "erodes the ability of our security services to hit them when they're most vulnerable, when they're moving," said Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA unit that tracked bin Laden. "It used to be they had to go to Sudan, they had to go to Yemen, they had to go to Afghanistan to train," he added. Now, even when such travel is necessary, an al Qaeda operative "no longer has to carry anything that's incriminating. He doesn't need his schematics, he doesn't need his blueprints, he doesn't need formulas." Everything is posted on the Web or "can be sent ahead by encrypted Internet, and it gets lost in the billions of messages that are out there."
