nobody with half a wit thinks that anything will ‘improve’ under any administration in regards to privacy. privacy has been increasingly devalued with every administration since the Cold War broke out.

I agree on ‘if you can catch the signal it’s fair game’ if it applies to the RF spectrum. I don’t think a ’signal’ is fair game if you have to ‘hack’ a system to get access to the signal without a warrant, sort of like wiretapping phone lines, packet sniffing on any sort of wired newtwork, and similar.

Depending on how things go in the next few years, I could easily see everyday use of encryption increase dramatically.

I don’t understand why some people get all upset when the articles cover the political and other real world applications of hacking, rather than just posting schematics of the latest gadget. Schematics are great, but we have to keep in mind the real issues that are occurring in the world, what their effects on us are and how we can become active in shaping them.

Oddly enough this is an article about the electronic frontier foundation and their wants and desires from the new leadership. I know that this first agenda was one of three so I might be beating them to the punch but:

Our new administration is entertaining the idea of re-instating/iniating a new Fairness Doctrine that would make the old one look like a joke. The new doctrine wants to extend to the internet, as well. Many of you will take this as a joke but it is not. That means if ‘they’ have issue with anything you say or write on the internet, ‘they’ have the authority to ‘edit’ it or take it down altogether.

That could make Hackaday a fun place… or maybe not. While Hackaday is mostly innocuous, I can assure you that many of the techniques that are discussed and linked to from this website would most likely be considered ethically sticky if/when the doctrine is enacted.

It isn’t all about politics and I make no apologies for Bush as he has certainly done some things that would make anyone scratch their head and say WTF?!!! But the least of your problems are behind you. That is not a comment about Obama, but rather a comment about the grass always being greener on the other side.

You comments show you are not really grasping the issue here. For example..”attempting to say only one person has ever done this”. What it actually says is “come to the forefront in the last eight years”.

The article doesn’t imply that there were not problems in the past. The article is saying that the new administration might be more receptive to addressing the EFF’s concerns.

Why would something like that make you so angry? Did your guy not win last week?

you’re thinking of the billboard liberation front (BLF). they claim to leave some good booze for the advertisers’ “cleanup crews” stashed on the billboards that they improve. all in the blf seems like good folks.