[LINK] Is police spyware in your computer??

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 20:50 +1000, Tom Koltai wrote:
> But if the police actions mean getting those kind of people off our
> networks - well then, I for one don't really mind how they achieve their
> results - as long as they get results.

Really? So the ends justify the means, do they?

What an incredibly foolish thing to believe.

What if they make a mistake?

What if they make a mistake about *you*?

What if "those kind of people" is modified to be "your kind of people"?

Civil rights are not a luxury, they have a purpose. They are all that
stand between the Rule of Law and a police state.

K.

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