The Internet is Rising up in Protest against mass Surveillance on February 11th.

[Grand Magus]

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A bunch of websites and organizations are teaming up and announcing a
day of action against mass-surveillance, in honor of the passing of Aaron Swartz.
[ url = thedaywefightback.org ]

And then a fleet of robot-drones will blow everyone up.

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[LazarX]

Or to be more accurate the usual bunch is making a bit of noise which will be ignored by almost everyone save the usual crowd that generates facebook chain mail.

[zylphryx]

With the subject line I was half expecting a Skynet reference ...

[Grand Magus]

LazarX wrote:

Or to be more accurate the usual bunch is making a bit of noise which will be ignored by almost everyone save the usual crowd that generates facebook chain mail.

Yay. I'm sure the nsa already has them in a box (or play pen) and will

watch them, amused and smiling.

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[lordzack]

LazarX wrote:

Or to be more accurate the usual bunch is making a bit of noise which will be ignored by almost everyone save the usual crowd that generates facebook chain mail.

You mean the same people who helped defeat SOPA?

[Kahn Zordlon]

I will use that day to generate internet traffic of no consequence. For those of us who don't follow links, is there something else we're supposed to do?

[LazarX]

lordzack wrote:

LazarX wrote:

Or to be more accurate the usual bunch is making a bit of noise which will be ignored by almost everyone save the usual crowd that generates facebook chain mail.

You mean the same people who helped defeat SOPA?

Don't be fooled. SOPA threathened the economics of powerful vested interests, among them Google as well as the major part of the tech industry, because of it's blunderbuss "shoot first ask questions later" approach. While SOPA was presented by Big Money, it got taken down by Bigger and Potentially Lots Bigger Money, not wannabe hippies.

[BigNorseWolf]

.... i'm really not sure how much of a rise up there is when the advice is to do... something....??

[Grand Magus]

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2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers
is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty
much everything) will be opaque to users, and it will be illegal to
report on security flaws in them (because reporting a security flaw in
DRM exposes you to risk of prosecution for making a circumvention device), so they
will be riddled with holes that creeps, RATters, spooks, authoritarians and crooks
will be able to use to take over your computer and f you in every possible way.

[Turin the Mad]

For reporting this Security Flaw, you are summarily deemed guilty of Treason, Citizen. Please report to the nearest Termination Center. All Hail the Computer!

[Electric Wizard]

2014?

[Irontruth]

Turin the Mad wrote:

For reporting this Security Flaw, you are summarily deemed guilty of Treason, Citizen. Please report to the nearest Termination Center. All Hail the Computer!

Friendly reminder, reporting of Security Flaws is mandatory.

[Vod Canockers]

Their first point of reference is a Wikipedia article.

Which is like me saying "I am the ruler of the Universe. For proof just ask me."