French 'terror law' declares WAR on the INTERNET itself, say digi-rights folks The French Senate passed a new anti-terror bill last night after just one reading. The new law, which still has to be examined by a Joint Commission in the coming weeks, includes bans on leaving the country for anyone suspected of planning a terrorist act, the creation of an “individual terrorist enterprise” offence, …
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Ehhh, the entire western civilisation is going to hell in a handbasket - this is just one more symptom. Lofty ideals went out of style quite a while ago, these day everyone is just keen to grab a bigger stick to shake at everybody else, especially at their own people (...down! STAY DOWN!). It makes me actually glad I won't be around 30-40 years from now because I have precisely zero illusions about anything getting better in this respect until then. I feel sorry for the next couple of generations - they are in for some tough shit; after that, who knows...
It's not really about terrorism, in fact terrorism is just the convenient excuse of Governments to gain extra powers in the oppression of the population.
Look around you, Government would love a new terrorist atrocity so they can enact more powers of control.
At the moment they can only claim to have prevented terrorist attacks, last year they prevented over 500, but where is the proof? Keep the population on edge, keep them scared.
I wouldn't put it past them to help a little atrocity on its way, encourage it a little. Then more laws and oppression in the name of freedom can be enacted. Before we know it, we all become prisoners in our own country.
Ok so I'm getting a little carried away, but terrorism is a great little earner for Governments.
The French economy is on its knees, high unemployment, low output, stagnation.
They need some big news headline to divert attention from that.
War in the Internet will make them forget about their crumbling world for a little while, after which I am sure they will find another thing to have a go at.
Actually there is a very clear and well defined line.
1. Anyone deliberately and on purpose attacking a civilian non-combatant target by definition is a terrorist.
2. Anyone who targets exclusively military installations, infrastructure, etc has to be given the benefit of the doubt of being a rebel.
Anyone deliberately and on purpose attacking a civilian non-combatant target by definition is a terrorist unless
he/she can reasonably claim "best effort" to have avoided "collateral damage" or manages to push through the relabeling of burnt wedding guest as "persons giving material support to terrorists" (who, one supposes, must have been in the fireball at least initially). Bonus points when the collateralized area was an UN refugee compound and "audiovisual material" can be sourced that "proves" that "shots were fired" from its general "vicinity".
Choose whichever definition of terrorist you like best:
Broad definition of terrorist: all of you lot.
Narrow definition of terrorist: you, and you, and you over there, and you on the right, and you in front, and you...ok this is taking too long, so...all of you lot.
Anything you can do, I can do better!
I can do anything better than you!
No you can't!
Yes, Icann!
No, you can't!
Yes, Icann!
No, you can't!
Yes, Icann, Yes, Icann!
I can over-react to a single outrage
I can screw you with a no-fly list
I can convict in secret courts
Secret courts, is that all?
Much more but I can't tell you now
Really
Yes
No you can't!
Yes, Icann!
No, you can't!
Yes, Icann!
No, you can't!
Yes, Icann, Yes, Icann!
And so on..........
And if I heard it correctly, part of the evidence was "Possession of an encrypted SD card".
Good job they didn't have cars. Filling them with petrol (as used in Molotov cocktails) or diesel (As used in ANFO) would have been "purchasing materials for use by terrorists".
so this is small peanuts.
You have no real rights in France:
If an officer-of-the-peace says you did something then that's what "legally" happened, unless you have a witness to say otherwise.
Also if you try and "porter plainte" against the police the success rate is virtually zero and then you open yourself up to being continually stopped by the police for the rest of your life.
Or worse, they'll charge you with "outrage à agent"
Sleep tight!
"As it stands, the proposed law criminalises “searching, obtaining or making” material that could be used in an “individual terrorist undertaking”. "
If I want to go to France and I search for a flight, am I commiting a criminal act because, while I don't actually intend to, theroretically I _could_ try to hijack it for terrorist purposes?
That's the following web sites fucked then
and of cause those arch terrorists who made this propogander film
Who or what defines "terrorism"? Depending on who you ask, Israeli and American sites should be blocked and their citizens watched. If you're going instead to define terrorism as the Western enemy du jour, that's a somewhat blinkered view (dig around, there are implications that a certain country helped train both Taliban and ISIS).
So, I repeat again, who or what defines terrorism?
I can see where the concern comes from, but a modicum of proportionality shouldn't be too much to ask. This sounds like legislation that is soon to be abused because you questioned racial relations I. France, or holiday lengths, or organized some labor action, or accused the police of excessive force, and so on....
Project "Looking-Glass" (google "M-theory") just got a boost.
Good luck France, because when the entire intelligentsi disappear off to M3X-151 there will be no-one left to run the Internet.
Schematics sent on their merry way, good luck stopping that.
I expect that about 500 prominent scientists, hobbyists and hackers just woke up to this in their inbox, complete with build data AND everything they need including where to get all the parts to build the device and a power source good for one ID jump.
... said in its official opinion that, in practice, this suspicion would be based on secret notes from intelligence services that people would not be able to challenge.
Yeh, old news. The US established this "practice" right after 9/11/01. It's just taken the French a few years to catch up.
(Makes note next time to send encrypted copies first then distribute key afterwards so everyone has copy at the same time, as it seems they got lost in the post!!)
I still have a copy fortunately and there are some enhancements being worked on such as being able to power it without a truckload of lead acid batteries and a generator.
The problem as it turns out is to get enough of a rotating electromagnetic field in the toroid to form a stable interdimensional gateway without messing up nearby EM powered devices as this usually ends badly.
The tricky part is to get a steep field gradient so energy isn't needlessly wasted heating up the air or coils, many electric motors now use flat disk magnets and printed coils so this could be helpful.
Also focusing the field using a superconducting disk and using feedback techniques such as an accelerometer to tune the windings for maximum gravitomagnetic field is handy.
Still can't manage to get it phone handset sized, sorry about that :-)
btw Evgene was right, spinning superconductors do very strange things indeed.
It is entirely possible that the early "levity disks" are cousins of the more recent HTSC experiments as rotating certain alloys at much higher speeds does in fact yield gravitomagnetic like effects although of a lesser magnitude and only detectable indirectly on radioactive half life without a MEMS accelerometer which wasn't invented until the late 1990s.
As it turns out the ancecdotal evidence of "glowing disks" makes sense as due to the AG field the isotope would experience substantial shortening of its half life to the point of spontaneous fission resulting in Cerenkov radiation being emitted; this would be very bad for anyone nearby if so.
If anyone has a suggestion for making a miniaturized version of this please let me know.
I expect that given the right materials (ie superconductive at room temperature) rotating two closely spaced cylinders of the material in opposite directions might be enough to magnify the inherent field energy from the quantum vacuum and if the radioactive material inside the cylinders was say plutonium oxide or other energy dense isotope then this would solve the energy problem.
Once it was rotating fast enough the reaction would self sustain and generate a stable vortex, although it wouldn't last very long (say maybe ten minutes) and use up the isotope very quickly so it would be a one way trip.
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