Sunday 21 April 2013

Film "War for Web" warns of CISPA, SOPA, & future threats

"Now, cybersecurity is important. I think the government should be finding these vulnerabilities and helping to fix them. But they're doing the opposite of that. They're finding the vulnerabilities and keeping them secret so they can abuse them. So if we do care about cybersecurity, what we need to do is focus the debate not on these kids in a basement who aren't doing any damage -- but on the powerful people, the people paying lots of money to find these security holes who then are doing damage and refusing to fix them." — Aaron Swartz, Internet activist, in his last lengthy interview, before his untimely death by suicide

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