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Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

Submitted by MacRonin on August 6, 2008 - 2:40am
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Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online:

A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar. Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an "i-Patriot Act," to drop in the event of a "cyber-9/11." Clarke responded, "Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won't like it." Lessig's anecdote begins at about 4:30 in the video.

(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online.)

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