Alert! President Bush declares national emergency... again
ObCaveat: Of course, anyone who has followed Declan McCullagh's reporting on digital security, politics & technology, and especially privacy issues, whether via C|Net News or by following PoliTech, should know that when he "alerts" the public to any particular issue, it's important enough to pay attention.
Especially if you value your privacy.
Having said that, let's get to it. Declan writes in the C|Net News Security Blog:
President Bush this week declared a national emergency based on an "extraordinary threat to the national security."
This might sound like a code-red, call-out-the-national-guard, we-lost-a-suitcase-nuke type of alarum, but in reality it's just a bureaucratic way of ensuring that the Feds can continue to control the export of things like computer hardware and encryption products.
And it happens every year or so.
posted by Fergie @ 8/03/2005 06:12:00 PM
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