They CAN'T stop us. This storm will NOT blow over. And here is why:

[BigBearJohn]

It suddenly occurred to me. Just like the big universities can daisy chain many smaller mainframes together to create a MONSTER computer...

The internet is one huge THINK TANK that ties millions of great minds together... all examining the evidence, the players, the motives, the differnet angles, the unthought of reasons, the "hidden links"... just like a huge group of writers brainstorming to develop a great screenplay. ONLY THIS ONE IS REAL. The bad guys can have momentary successes, but in the end, we WILL bring them down. (insert Dean's famous scream... YEAHHHHHHHHH!)

[hippiechick]

1. uhhh ... until articles and archives and links start to disappear ...

.... etc, etc.

don't forget who holds the other end of the plug to the 'internets'.

[tocqueville]

2. make a backup

start new servers, change names

[BigBearJohn]

4. They'd have to bring the whole internet down

[bryant69]

6. That's why it's up to us to keep up the noise

If we keep talking about it, they will have to keep paying attention to it.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[skids]

8. Well, sortof....

Really the Internet is beyond government control. Large chunks of the Internet are in the higher-ed area, and those higher-ed systems are independently administered by people like lil' ol me. A lot of the systems have started lighting their own fiber and the systems run completely independently from large telco companies -- or at least they could still limp along without them. The same is true for much of the corporate sector, and the federal backbone is no longer the lynchpin it once was.

But a lot of the things we as web users do give the government more control than we have to. These are things like running insecure software, running insecure browsers, putting too much data into non-redundant systems where it is vulnerable to failures in a single server, and flocking to centralized services instead of using services from smaller mom-and-pop operations.

On a less security related note, if you are interested in what you can do to improve the Internet as a user or as a service administrator, I have a little tounge-in-cheek essay posted here:

http://abrij.org/~bri/rants/deepweb.html

[Joanne98]

3. The internet could save the world!

[Sparkle]

5. Thank God for Al Gore!

:-)

[Straight Shooter]

7. They spin that the War on Iraq created good. Can't do that with treason.

People can rationalize that some good came out of the War on Iraq, such as getting rid of Saddam, blah blah blah. But what possible good can come of outing a CIA agent???

It smells like treason, there's just no other way to frame it. They outed a CIA agent working on tracking WMD. Pooh-pooh it all they want, smear Wilson, pretend it's no big deal, in the end it still stinks of treason and that is a dagger in the back of every patriot in America.

I hate traitors more than I hate liars, and that's saying a lot.

[tex-wyo-dem]

9. Couldn't agree with you more!

Can't help but think that the masterminds of the neocon movement, although they planned for the propaganda/take over of the media/spin-spin-spin disinformation machine back as early as the late '70s, they didn't forsee the power of the internets.

I like your "huge think tank" analogy :)

[BigBearJohn]

10. Thank you very much. I thought it really fit.

[BigBearJohn]

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