[governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Well.. If you can come up with a practical set of suggestions to regulate the sale of network security and pen testing gear I am all ears 

--srs (htc one x)


----- Reply message -----
From: "Roland Perry" <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net>
Subject: [governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty
Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 11:42 PM


In message <E1TjtrJ-00059u-9T at frodo.hserus.net>, at 21:11:01 on Sat, 15 
Dec 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> writes
>The problem of course is that a lot of the lock picking tools in the
>online world tend to be open source, and regulating the sale of lots of
>these is a non starter when it comes to the sheer burden of compliance

And you can buy guns and ammunition in Kmart. The excuse seems to be "so 
you can overthrow the government it that becomes necessary", although I 
note that threatening the President's life is also an offence.
-- 
Roland Perry
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