Vic Toews Apparently Not A Fan Of Others Seeing His Personal Data
from the is-he-for-child-porn? dept
You may recall that Canadian Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews announced Canada's "lawful access" (read: government monitoring of the internet) bill by saying that if you weren't in favor of the bill, you supported child porn. Over the weekend, he also seemed to admit that he didn't even understand the bill he was supporting.That was pretty ridiculous, and a Twitter meme was developed in which lots of people shared info with Toews about things that were going on in their lives. Of course, it was only a matter of time until someone did the opposite... and started revealing info about Toews. Indeed, late last week, a Twitter account calling itself Vikileaks showed up on the scene... leaking info about things like Toews' divorce. After that created a lot of press attention and controversy, the anonymous person behind the account shut it down. However, Brendan noted that for a while it appeared to be blocked in Canada, but not elsewhere. He provided a screenshot from Canada where it says no such account exists, as well as one via a proxy which shows the account. If the user deleted the account, it's possible that it was a caching issue...
Either way, it appears that Toews is not at all happy that his own personal info is being shared. There were some claims that the account holder was accessing the account from within the Canadian House of Commons (something the user denied), leading Toews to demand an investigation into who was behind the account. Of course, as the report notes, it may be difficult to impossible to get any useful info, since all House of Commons traffic shows up as coming from one of just four IPs, so zeroing in on the particular user may not be possible.
But, no matter, Toews wants an investigation (at taxpayer expense). And who gets to investigate those who abuse Toews' lawful access proposal to access private info of citizens? Perhaps, rather than chasing down a ghost, Toews would be better served to think a little more seriously about the complaints people have raised about government over-surveillance.
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JUST so you know
In other words GOT YA...what ya going to investigate nothing illegal was done.
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And yet he seemed to have no trouble determining the IP address associated with the account—something which would allegedly be difficult under current law if the account had just been used for child pornography.
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OH and
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Politicians don't need to know. The lobbyists tell them everything they need to know. If anonymous wants to upset someone who really matters, they should hack the lobbyist who wrote the bill.
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Who Watches The Watchmen?
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"You'll regret this day, friend!"
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What's going on up there?
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Rick Mercer's Rant covers this tonight
In the interim, here's an applicable rant about the Harper government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwEwUz45_I
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And yet...this isn't enough.
He won't learn the lesson, of course, he's far too stupid. But perhaps others will benefit from observing.
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Waiting...
It's like having a baby wandering around in a nuclear reactor - you're either crazy or you're saying: "what the hell is a baby doing in there" and you're rushing to get him out.
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It is now or never :)
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Honorable ???
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I think we can safely say that the political realm in the 21st century will be decidedly different than, oh wait, it's always been this way.
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> Personal matters is quite a different story.
Bottom line, if he wants to pass a law which would make all my personal data open to scrutiny, then he has a helluva set of stones objecting to his own data being treated the same way.
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A politician has every right to be upset someone is playing political games..... That guy is going to have pretty high blood pressure...
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so he objects to a consequence of proposed bill
The embarrassment he is currently objecting to is the same problem millions of Canadians will face from this bill.
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Waiting...
It's like having a baby wandering around in a nuclear reactor - you're either crazy or you're saying: "what the hell is a baby doing in there" and you're rushing to get him out.
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canadian gov eh
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I call BS
What I would rather have is a clear explanation of why the government doesn not want to keep a registry of guns (Conservative-dominated parliament voted to discontinue it last week) but want to keeps a detailed info on internet users. Regardless of how people feel about the gun registry, it would be the height of intellectual dishonesty to assert that internet user history is more dangerous than guns.
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When was the last time you saw a 7-11 knocked over by two thugs wielding hunting rifles?
Not to mention the billions of dollars wasted making sure the farmers and hunters weren't the criminal types.
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Had similar issue, but it wasn't just vikileaks, it was about 80% of the profiles I tried to visit for a brief period. I think it was just twitter acting up like it usually does as sometimes vikileaks showed and sometimes it didn't.
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Umm...
Is he implying that Twitter is funded by the Canadian taxpayers?
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What a douchebag politician
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This is just a strategy play
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This is just a strategy play
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Guess who else deserves this?
That is all.
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Just something to add
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Who sent it?
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Thank you Toews for killing more jobs.
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Harper is the bad one . . . .
In reality it is Stephen Harper who is the bad guy in all of this. he dislikes and mistrusts ordinary liberal-minded Canadians so much, he wants us spied upon. He has some very evil ideas:
http://nickfillmore.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-stephen-harper-displaying-fascist.html
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Harper is the bad one . . . .
In reality it is Stephen Harper who is the bad guy in all of this. he dislikes and mistrusts ordinary liberal-minded Canadians so much, he wants us spied upon. He has some very evil ideas:
http://nickfillmore.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-stephen-harper-displaying-fascist.html
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They love their rights.
We're all equal, they're just more equal.
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We still haven't heard
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Anonymous video threatens Canada's domestic spying minister with embarrassing disclosures
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/21/144816.html
But this point it really is a shame no one expects them... they warned you.
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