Dan Gillmor: Feds’ cyberspace plan should appeal to …
Dan Gillmor: “[The] much-ballyhooed, much-revised “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace” looks alarmingly like a recipe for the world’s control freaks – the people who view security as a way to help big government and big business regulate the way we use technology. [–––] Congress is so clueless on this stuff that it’s likely to pass new laws, in the name of security, that fulfill the wish lists of people who like central control and fear too much liberty. [–––] For all that, the cybersecurity strategy is worth reading. Like security itself, it’s an ongoing process, and it will evolve further. So let’s work on getting the details right in the policy that comes out of it. If we do, we’ll end up safer, not sorrier.”