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Activist and hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched an online awareness-raising operation opposing pending controversial US information-sharing bills. Critics from across the political spectrum, including libertarian-minded technologist Robert Graham, argue that the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act sacrifices …

  1. Alistair
    Coat

    /append to list

    C-51

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: /append to list

      But we need C-51 to protect us from the terrorists lapping at our shores.

      1. dogged

        Re: /append to list

        Sounds like the "plot" of a porno.

      2. Alistair
        Coat

        Re: /append to list

        @YAAC

        I would be FINE with C-51 if it protected us from the terrorists ruling south of our border.

  2. Mark 85

    This is an outrage..

    What? Anonymous doing something conventional? Not defacing websites? Not doing DDOS attacks? Not acting like 2-year olds and tossing their toys out of the pram? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. I wonder what this world is coming to.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    In a sense, it doesn't matter what the law says or what passes; because the spooks are going to keep doing it anyway. They have to, because every other country's spooks are giving it some; and not to stay in the game would be suicide.

    What's needed is some oversight and controls against misuse of the data for petty reasons and against their own population (not treating allies like the enemy would also be nice, America). Military intelligence, fine. Trying to weed out terrorists, excellent (although terrorist should be strictly defined...people who throw bombs about in the name of Allah or the FSM or whatever are terorists; people who fail to bag their dog's crap definitely aren't. I've made a start for you spook outfits, carry on. I suggest that someone who is prepared and equipped to cause indiscriminate corporeal harm would be a terrorist).

    Oh and spook agencies - stop bleating on about encryption being a terrorist's tool. You ain't ever going to get your way on that and it's getting boring to listen to.

    You -all of you, not just the US- have thoroughly blown the public's trust. To redeem yourselves from the effects of a bunch of power hungry arseholes who thought that they would never be caught out is going to take some considerable time. You did it to yourselves, so stop whining. Some areas you could look at include:

    ► Define specific areas where it is rght, just and good for you to be sucking up information

    ► Add controls to stop information being misused.

    ► Be fucking accountable.

    ► (For the US only): Try and stop shooting unarmed black people. Sooner or later they're going to start shooting back.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    There is a reason...

    ...why ASSnonymous members go to jail almost weekly - they are unscrupulous idiots turned criminals.

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