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Everyone's a potential terrorist, if you define terrorism as broadly as the Bush Administration does. And, given six degrees of separation, everyone on the planet associates with "known terrorists."

Unwinnable wars (and I'm not talking ones involving military intervention), unwarranted accusations of affiliation with enemies, and heightened paranoid states have become hallmarks of modern Western government. We hold THESE truths to be self-evident.

So, persons convicted of computer security crimes have become part of The Establishemt. Yay. I feel neither less secure nor more.