Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pcserver2!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Computer Privacy Amendment Urged Message-ID: <1991Apr02.232549.14551@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 2 Apr 91 23:25:49 GMT References: <156292@tiger.oxy.edu> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 22 In article rogue@cellar.UUCP (Rogue Winter) writes: >Rodney Hoffman writes: > >> "Lance Hoffman, a George Washington University professor of computer science >> [No relation to me! -- RH] said, .... >> 'We're casting about, because we're in a new age in our technological >> development, an age where a person can spend $1,000 and buy the computer >> equivalent of a Saturday Night Special and take down a large computer system. > > > In that case, shouldn't the people arrested and harrassed by Operation >Sundevil invoke the Second Amendment - the right to keep and bear arms? Interesting idea. . .the purpose of the 2nd Amendment (in my view) is to allow the people to protect themselves from the government. (The British didn't allow the colonists to have arms and hampered the revolution.) Then if we can apply computers (and the net, etc.) to the 2nd amendment we know that we use the usenet to further freedom and fight censorship, etc. so that there is an interesting connection. . . -- The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM