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Freedom is just another word for having nothing left to lose

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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free — and we’re not. Guess who’s winning the “war on terror?” – Cory Doctorow, bOINGbOING

Today is “Dark Future Day”. Its scaring me. Check the news: As you probably know, everybody within the European Union has every use of a telecomincation device (mobile, computer) safed and made accessible by the government. Not the content of your conversion, but date, time, length, sender, receiver. Also logged: Every station your mobile phone registered with. That’s scary allready, but no longer a news. New is: The Britisch Government plans to consolidate all telecomunications data in one huge database. Yes, the same government which holds every record in spying on its citizens with videocameras AND famous for loosing massive amounts of sensitive data! They announced at the same day a massive cooperation with Google – so they probably will be able to find stuff in that huge database. They told Google will help with Crime-mapping and analysing the surveilance vids The US allegedly used similar data to create a 8 million names list of “suspects” which might be arrested under martial law. Germany centralizes its communication spying Germany searches (again) countless homes because of Credit Card activity And, Germany being a rather enlightend country, it saddens me to hear that the Catholic Church now officially starts doing Exorcisms in Germany again. Under a German Pope. Cory is right. Osama bin Laden wins the fight agains Freedom. And we voted those who help him into power. I wonder if he can stop laughing at us?

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1. Da soll einem nicht dabei schlecht werden, wenn man sowas liest. Nun ja Cyberpunk ist irgendwie lebendiger als je zu vor, bei solchen Meldungen.

   

   Tom

   20 May 08 at 1:29 pm
2. “starts doing Exorcisms in Germany”
   What can I say, Holy Shit?

   BTW, freakin’ scary. Even Philip K. Dick never had such nightmares like this.

   Dagenhams last blog post..Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts

   

   Dagenham

   20 May 08 at 2:55 pm
3. @Dagenham: It feels like a nightmare… sanity starts slipping into the darkness, and you are helpless. Even the weirdo creationist vs evolution debate has now picked up by some politicans!!

   Toto, this ain’t Kansas anymore…

   

   karsten

   20 May 08 at 3:11 pm
4. Unser Lieblingsarbeitgeber Lidl darf da auch nicht fehlen

   

   karsten

   20 May 08 at 5:19 pm
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