Where’s Lumpy?

For all of its ‘user-friendly’ allure, the Internet can also be a dangerous place with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets…Our economic security, national security and public safety are now all at risk from new kinds of enemies–cyber-warriors, cyber-spies, cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals.

-Senator Joe Lieberman, leveraging fear, uncertainty, and doubt  to justify his latest assault on liberty, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), which legislation would give the president virtually unchecked authoritarian power to shut down internet infrastructure under the guise of protecting us.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

-Benjamin Franklin