BIG BROTHER IS COMING TO THE US. Indeed, the Orwellian nightmare figure is firmly established there already, but the Homeland Security legislation just approved by the House of Representatives is surely an attack on freedom in the country that laughably calls itself the home of the free.
The Act will also seek to outlaw the publication anywhere of details of such tools as PGP, which encode emails so that they cannot be read by a snoop. Such tools allow secret communication which is obviously a bad thing, since the terrorists are in our midst.
fun fun fun.... i only hope it is still legal to leave the US by the time i'm done with school.
