[FYI] (Fwd) BBC news spread Ranum's Law

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Technology can't solve social problems.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1555000/1555981.stm

   Experts are warning of the risk of relying on technology to help
   spot terrorists before they attack.

   Everyone is outraged by the terrorist attacks, but that's no reason
   to suddenly abrogate our rights

   ...

   "We are all focusing on this as a very hi-tech war, whereas the
   terrorists are using very low-tech means," said Brian Gladman,
   former technical director at Nato, and now an advisor to the net
   thinktank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (Fipr).

   ...



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