zombies attack again
Apr. 6th, 2013 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eYou'd better resign yourself to the fact that you can't kill them. They just keep coming again; you can only beat them back for a little while.
Now they want to expand the misleadingly titled Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The existing act is itself a fraud and an abuse of power. It was created back in the early days of the internet and no longer is relevant (perhaps never applied) to the real world. It is the act that was used to bully Aaron Schwartz to death.
Work has proceeded in rewriting this bad law so that it is less likely to be abused, but members of the House Judiciary Committee have come up with a cynical move to make CFAA even worse.
Each time the monsters who would eat the internet are beaten back, they return. They are stupid but they won't tire. They will just keep coming. We need a way to stop them for good, otherwise one day they will succeed in damaging the net irreparably while we are not looking and there will be no way to undo it.
Perhaps this was partly what Danny Hillis was worried about when he proposed The internet could crash. We need a Plan B at a TED talk.
Now they want to expand the misleadingly titled Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The existing act is itself a fraud and an abuse of power. It was created back in the early days of the internet and no longer is relevant (perhaps never applied) to the real world. It is the act that was used to bully Aaron Schwartz to death.
Work has proceeded in rewriting this bad law so that it is less likely to be abused, but members of the House Judiciary Committee have come up with a cynical move to make CFAA even worse.
Each time the monsters who would eat the internet are beaten back, they return. They are stupid but they won't tire. They will just keep coming. We need a way to stop them for good, otherwise one day they will succeed in damaging the net irreparably while we are not looking and there will be no way to undo it.
Perhaps this was partly what Danny Hillis was worried about when he proposed The internet could crash. We need a Plan B at a TED talk.