Sure, but abbrev it. It's too long for anyone to remember. CSHFE would do. Pronounced as "cash fee".

For trying to get out of your country?

Sounds like a good law?

And if your grandma had wheels you could ride her to school.

Sadly the world doesn't work on would've and should've. The internet IS NOT secure and vulnerabilities ARE NOT patched in a timely manner. So we have to find a solution for this imperfect world.

Well, let's see, what else have we got... OPST? CISA? CASP? Oh, I know, CEH/CNDA! That should do it.

Then again, it doesn't really matter which one you require. Why? Because EVERYONE has them all. Because to keep them, you have to collect more and more certs.

I can't help but ponder whether a certain well known Cult that also enjoys selling very expensive courses to its members acts as the role model for the whole crap...

Then why don't you take them to De Hague, where there is a court for such issues?

Just because the US lock someone up doesn't turn that person magically in an "illegal combatant", as the history of people locked up there has shown.

I agree, make health care a social right and decouple it from employment and income. It would be interesting to see what the CEOs come up with to blame for the next rounds of layoffs.

Wonder what that license would be like. Think my CISSP cert would do as a stand in?

Gagging people has never really been the solution to anything. Especially not in a world where your local laws mean jack. Unless you can not only get every government on the planet to agree with some kind of law concerning the internet AND get them to actually care to enforce it (good luck trying to get a malware server shut down somewhere in east Asia...), whatever law you conjure is pointless and will ONLY affect and limit the ability of your own people.

Patience, towarish, patience. Just as you can't boil the frog by turning up the heat to the max, you can't build a socialist paradise over night. You have to take small steps.

So far you're only locking up foreign people without charges. Give it time, you can't eliminate 2 centuries of American values in just a decade. Especially now that the whole "fear the terrorist" hype doesn't really work anymore to cow people into handing over constitutional rights for alleged safety.

Maybe a bomb or two will do that. Give it time. It's still a work in progress, but you have to admit, what they accomplished in just over a decade is impressive. Even comrade Stalin needed more time, and he sure as hell was not the subtle kind of guy.

And people ask me why I avoid the US now like I avoided the USSR in the last century...

I don't oppose Obama (not that I cared about him or whether or not it's racist, he just doesn't matter). I oppose the whole friggin' system that is in place.

The whole shit is FUBAR. Sadly I have no solution to the problem that doesn't end up with a lot of people dead and the rest wondering what good it did because the shit doesn't change, only the figureheads.

Now try to explain why it was A-OK for the border patrol to kill the people trying to flee from East Germany because it was the law.

So security researchers and/or security reporters in the UK cannot warn about a lot of unpatched webpages in the UK, but hackers all over the globe can hack and abuse them.

Yeah, makes a damn lot of sense.

Odd as it may sound, for security research, you have WAY more liberties there.

As I said, we lack the "west". Sadly, there is nowhere to run.

Why do you think you can still travel? Having a right is pointless if there's no way to make use of it.

MS did what IBM did in the 80s. They thought that they are indispensable. That people can't ignore them. That people will buy their product, even if they come late to the party.

IBM ignored the emerging PC market. They actually considered it "beneath" them to produce computers for small businesses or even home users. Computers at home. That can never catch on. Up until the 70s, computers were big, ugly closets that were tucked away safely in the basement of big companies with (dumb) terminals connected to and dependent on them. That was their market, that was their expertise, and that was what they wanted to sell. When they noticed that the PC market took off and that people (and companies!) wanted those machines rather than their big closets, they jumped onto it and tried to force people to take on THEIR flavor. OS/2, you might remember the system. It was in some way superior to Windows, but in the end it was too bulky, too "heavy" and not really well supported. Their downfall was their assumption that "you can't ignore IBM", that you MUST buy their flavor even if you already bought the other one, and that manufacturers HAVE to dance to their tune. They didn't notice that not only did the time move past them but that people actually were very HAPPY to have an alternative because IBM had a nasty tendency to abuse its position of power.

Sounds familiar?

Replace IBM with MS, PC with tablet (or search engine, or MP3-player, or ... well, pretty much any other technology MS tried to embrace-extend-extinguish in the past decade) and you have the same story again.