Marcus Ranum wrote: > > So do I. Indeed, I think that it may boil down to some kind of > professional certification being necessary. There are analogs > to this - locksmithing certification, federal firearms license, etc. > That's part of what I meant about how that grey area is going to > get real thin, soon. > Isn't there an analogy with early use of air travel? When flight first started, if you had an aeroplane you flew when and where you chose. No-one (?) would argue today in the name of civil liberties that pilots should be free to take off and land anytime and any place they wished, in any kind of aircraft. The internet is going to have to go through the same transition from unregulated free-for-all to controlled usage for similar reasons, i.e. the damage that can be caused by reckless or deliberately malicious use is unacceptably high. Admittedly there is not the same risk to life, though conceivably that could also come into play as more systems rely on the internet as a component. Chris
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