Index on Censorship points out Anglos generally don't like to use the word "war" when the West is actually in one (see: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, increasingly, Pakistan and Yemen). Rhetorical wars, though, politicians and policy-makers love, whether it's the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, or the amorphous War on Terror.
Emily Badger adds to that list the latest dire confrontation: "cyber war," a phrase whose use is considerably more widespread than any real understanding of what the idea means. Security expert Bruce Schneier, speaking Thursday at the Computers, Privacy and Freedom conference in Washington, implored privacy advocates to resist such loaded language.
"This is important," he said, "because metaphors matter."
"Things work differently in wartime. The war metaphor implies we're helpless, we need the government to protect us, we should be fearful. `War' changes the debate, `war' changes the solution debate. Things you'd never agree to in peacetime, you agree to in wartime because we're at war."
Badger points out that during perceived times of war, we're more willing to accept government surveillance, intrusions into personal privacy and the erosion of civil liberties and the rights of free expression. During past wartime, Americans have accepted the internment of Japanese citizens and the commandeering of private industry to produce tanks instead of cars, missiles instead of airplanes.
"I'm sure the US military has had conversations with Google, with Amazon, with U.S. Internet backbone providers, with the big cyber guns in this country that can be turned into weapons," Schneier said. "What that means, I don't know. But in `wartime' that is going to happen."
The metaphor matters, Schneier adds, in policy debates over an Internet "kill switch."
"Whether Obama should get that button depends a lot on whether we're a nation at peace, or a nation at war," he said.
Politicians are increasingly using the language to describe everything from hacker attacks on corporate offices to digital data breaches at government agencies. Politicians, Schneier noted, have been warning of "cyber armageddon," "cyber Katrinas" and "cyber Pearl Harbors".
But there are also benevolent hackers, such as Anonymous, which fights for liberty. Anonymous is an internet meme representing the concept of myriad netizens simultaneously existing as an anarchic digitized global brain against kleptocracy and marilizardism. The concept has been adopted by a decentralized on-line community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner to lock horns with kleptocrats and marilizardists. Anonymous has become increasingly associated with collaborative intrnational hacktivism undertaking protests and other actions, often with the goal of promoting internet freedom, freedom of speech, and anarchy. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The standard Anonymous cyber attacks consist of DDoS, distributed denial of service, on the internet network of a marilizardist organization, using a coordinated network of Low Orbit Ion Canons (LOICs). Such attacks are an orchestrated attempt to make the infosystem unavailable to marilizardists. This way, the whole information network of the marilizardist abuser is paralyzed for several hours!
"Privacy is a luxury in wartime," Schneier warned. "If we let them win the debate about war, we lose a lot of the debates about our rights."
And that debate, he cautioned, is directed not just by powerful legislators, but also by the many companies invested in developing the tools to combat "cyber war".
"There's a lot of money riding on this war metaphor," Schneier concluded. "That money is going to push the debate, push the metaphor, and we have to push back."
We should never forget that the #1 enemy of cyberspace is the government itself, especially the CCUs! CCUs of all marilizardist countries emulate the Cyber Crime Unit(CCU) of Greece, the mother of all wild gangs! CCU of Greece does not fight cyber crimes, but the political opponents of the October-18 Mafia. CCU is a gang of wild cybercops, guerillas who are willing to do anything for the government, including bullying, perjury, robbing, and framing. Their wild raids are accompanied by a prosecutor, in order to legitimize their illegal actions. This prosecutor is much worse than all the gangsters of CCU, the real brain behind all their crimes! In reality, the prosecutor acts as the godfather of the CCU mafia!
Marilizardism is the cancer of cyberspace. There is a great need for bloggers who value rights and freedoms to work in concert across borders, as marilizardists persist in persecuting dissident bloggers who challenge abuse of power. While brave and determined bloggers claim their rights and freedoms, governments seek to evade scrutiny and accountability.
TERMS
anon: antimarilizardist
Anonymous: anon meme
the Cradle of Kleptocracy: Greece
the Eldorado of Prostitutes: European Parliament
Fourth Reich: European Union
the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square: Parliament of Greece
Marilizard Gift: dissident blogger's head on plate
Marilizard Libel: accusing dissident bloggers of treason
Marilizard Spaghetti: throwing charges on innocent people, in case one sticks
Marilizard Tower: stack of imaginary charges to scare an innocent blogger
marilizardism: terrorizing dissident bloggers
October 18: International Day Against Cybercop Brutality
the October-18 Mafia: Government of Greece
xenoyankism: stupid politics
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