Friday, October 28, 2016

Thinking About Thought Crime Means You're Already Guilty

I don't need no stinkin' court of law.  I am the law. - Judge Dredd

If you are making a Web site for the purpose of doing wicked things, we will know you will do wicked things and we will shut you down ... because we can.  We know we have convicted you of thought crime without an actual offense ... but we don't care.  Write a letter to the preacher if you like because you can't use the Internet.  (Science Daily:  New tool detects malicious websites before they cause harm)


In a paper presented at the 2016 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security on Oct. 27, the researchers describe a system called PREDATOR that distinguishes between legitimate and malicious purchasers of new websites.  In doing so, the system yields important insights into how those two groups behave differently online even before the malicious users have done anything obviously bad or harmful.  These early signs of likely evil-doers help security professionals take preemptive measures, instead of waiting for a security threat to surface.

- Science Daily

There are scurvy things done in the night when one can be convicted of something one did not do.  Above you see the stated intention because the junior G-men think they detected a pattern.  In turn, the pattern identifies the you, the plan, the intention.  You are guilty of thought crime and you will go to the Dark Room.


(Ed:  I get it with the "1984" Orwellian world of state control)

That's great, matey, mate, but I don't see anyone standing up to it.  There's thought crime stated in the oh-so-dry manner of scientific enlightenment but the function is clear and the keyword is preemptive.

I don't need no stinkin' court of law.  I am the law. - Judge Dredd


For the scope necessary to make such a tool in any way valuable, it has to have effect across the entire Internet and they get that by going after domain registration because, without that, you're just a ghost with an IP address and people are probably already forgetting what to do with those.  Going after global power in such a way was the same theme of "Sceptre," the latest (I think) James Bond movie.

"Sceptre" features the attempt to centralize all of the world's security processing through one control point with one omnipotent leader.  Naturally, James Bond is the only one who can do anything about it and he's driven by the dying wish of Judi Doench so you know he's going to kill a whole lot of people.

And, just because we love you, here is not just a Bond girl but a Bond womanly woman, Monica Belluci:



So, uh, what's your thought crime now, Dagwood.  By the way, you're already guilty and the thought cops are on the way.

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