Advocates for internet users and civil liberties groups have launched a petition against proposed laws that would give police new powers to monitor and intercept internet communications in Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... ition.html
Those of you that know me personally from my broadcast days, understand that I have been playing with the bits and bytes of communication for 30 years. I am a tech geek in the true sense of the words. I have written software that has been used around the world to run websites, can send and receive e-mail, send and receive files of any type... basicly I can argue the fine points of what can occur when a government wants to create a police state and monitor all internet traffic.
The Harper government wants to impose a communications police state. This government is going to copy what exists in the u.s. and I can assure you, that currently in the u.s. there are many people that have become innocent victims of this police state of communications.
I will give you a very simple example, and I hope that my message proves the stupidity of what occurs in the u.s. and what will occur if this legislation is passed in Canada.
Many of you don't know this, but every time you use a web browser, you are tracked. Look at the left corner of the CBC web page and it will show your location and the current temperature. This information is pulled from a database, and the web server uses your connecting IP address, which is similar to a phone number, and is used to track and trace you for many things.
There are companies that store this information. It all occurs without your knowledge and you can't turn it off. All the major websites use this tracking software. The collected information is then sold to anyone that is willing to buy it. The u.s. government is a big customer. This is not new, it has been going on for years... did you really believe that your web browser was actually free ?
As I write this, I am using a notebook computer that has a wifi connection to the internet. The connection is being done through a router that someone, whom I don't know, allows others to use their router to connect to the internet. Wifi is a popular method of connecting to the internet. Not all wifi routers are open to everybody, but many are. This is especially true in the u.s.a. and becoming more so in Canada.
If I wanted to, I can visit porn sites, or websites that the NSA or CIA would consider to be terrorist related... a terrorist can be defined in many ways etc.
When the tracking and tracing is done, it will show the owner of the Wifi router as the visitor to these websites, since the owner has an open Wifi router, and not me, as a guest that is using the wifi router remotely.
Currently in the u.s. there are victims that have had police forces smash in the front doors of homes, made the occupants of these homes get beatings by police officers, and then arrested and taken away, because someone used their Wifi router to access a website that the NSA or CIA considers to be against the state... this includes sites that offer free music or movie downloads as example.
If this Canadian legislation gets passed, the same thing will occur here.
Facism is alive and well in the u.s. and we don't need it here. Do you really want to have a big brother police state ?
As the CBC story link says, there are some that are against this legislation already, however the Harper government has a majority, thus the only way to shut this down, is for public opinion to shout loud and clear, that it is not wanted.
I have given only one example of the abuse that can occur, there are many other ways that can create innocent victims in this communication police state.
Others will use the cost factor of installing the software and hardware to make this occur. I only want to show how easy it is to screw people with it, because the bureaucrats are puppets of the American Conservative Party.
I leave it up to to you to notify all the people that you know, to get involved and shut the door on this proposed police state that Harper's government wants to create.