conclusion ‘UN agency calls for global cyber warfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users’
Nothing new. The Internet overlords using the protecting-people-from-themselves ploy. This benefits no one but “the people in charge”. This would work only in an ideal world. Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and technology officer, was already ahead of this UN official.
The US government through an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act enacted on Sept. 3rd 2008 provides public access to motor vehicle driver’s information in an electronic format. Sadly, when this came out, many American citizens thought it was cool to be able to do a license search on anyone they felt like. With a perspective like that they deserve to be slaves of the state. With this in mind, the next step towards licensing as well as taxing the use of the Internet seems logical as the tyranny of the state grows stronger.
The suggestion made by a UN official that we all need Internet driver’s licenses seems like another excuse to further intensify the invasion of the privacy of ordinary citizens. Already the fear mongering has begun:
Susan Collins, a US Republican senator who sits on several Senate military and home affairs committees, said the prospect of a cyber attack sparking a war is now being considered in the United States.
“If that same country uses sophisticated computers to knock out our electricity grid, I definitely think we are getting closer to saying it is an act of war,” Collins said.
So far, there’s no explanation how a driver’s license for the Internet will prevent attacks by Internet criminals. I’m sure one could eventually be created by the same sort of legal minds like John C. Yoo and Jay S. Bybee , who justified torture and now have been excused from any wrong-doing.
The major advantage to this not really new idea is that the police state, the FBI,NSA, CIA, and other branches of our surveillance government will be able to easier coordinate, identify and track its citizens as well as secretly isolate those who appear to be subversive. In effect, the ordinary citizen will come under closer scrutiny, “under surveillance”, while the real criminals, which includes our private security corporations, will operate as freely, if not better, then before the license requirement.
More lists on who is a terrorist or a potential terrorist will have to be created. It would more efficiently allow them to track anyone down, even to the DNA level. The more regulation governments have the more they control the population. Another arena in the global war on terrorism and another excuse to further eliminate civil liberties on a global basis.
