{"id":3174,"date":"2001-09-18T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2001-09-18T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smperformance.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/03\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-091801\/"},"modified":"2001-09-18T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2001-09-18T20:01:19","slug":"stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-091801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stratvantage.com\/index.php\/2001\/09\/18\/stratvantage-consulting-llc-mikes-take-on-the-news-091801\/","title":{"rendered":"StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 09\/18\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 09\/18\/01<\/h1>\n

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T<\/strong>he News \u2013 09\/18\/01<\/h1>\n

In this Issue:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Can Freedom and Security Coexist?<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My heart, like every American\u2019s, is broken due to the horrific acts of a few fanatics a week ago.<\/strong> Commentators are fond of saying nothing will ever be the same again, but I hope that\u2019s not true.<\/strong> Nonetheless, there are elements in the government that are trying to make some pretty important things change.<\/strong> Things like freedom. Attorney General John Ashcroft wants sweeping new wiretap powers that would essentially allow the government to eavesdrop on any conversation anywhere as long as they have a \u201creasonable\u201d expectation that a suspected criminal is involved in the conversation.<\/strong> Rather than wiretaps being associated with a particular telephone, Ashcroft wants them to be associated with the suspect.<\/strong> While I agree police need more freedom to intercept communications in this age of disposable cell phones, I worry that the Feds will end up listening to a lot of conversations that don\u2019t involve the suspects in question.<\/strong> What happens if they turn up evidence of other wrongdoing as a result?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019m sick to death of the usual response I get when I bring up potential threats to freedom like this.<\/strong> The average person responds, \u201cI\u2019ve got nothing to hide, so I don\u2019t care if the authorities can [wiretap my house, search it without a
\nwarrant, confiscate my nail clippers at the airport, read all my email, know
\nwhenever I travel on the tollway, and so on].<\/strong> My usual response is to point out that the listener is not a criminal, yet.<\/strong> Until recently, it wasn\u2019t a crime to post a link on your Web page to a site that hosted software to break copy protection schemes.<\/strong> Today it is a crime. So you\u2019re not a criminal now, but in the future you could be criminalized.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One company that stands to make a lot of money over the hysteria over airport security is Visionics <\/a>, a maker of face-recognition equipment and other security products that use biometrics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Evernote: StratVantage Consulting, LLC — Mike’s Take on the News 09\/18\/01 Clipped from: http:\/\/www.stratvantage.com\/news\/091801.htm The News \u2013 09\/18\/01 In this Issue: Can Freedom and Security Coexist? My heart, like every American\u2019s, is broken due to the horrific acts of a few fanatics a week ago. Commentators are fond of saying nothing will ever be … <\/p>\n

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