GoKawiilRichard Stallman Warns Against Post-9/11 Surveillance Expansion
In a widely shared essay, free software advocate Richard Stallman argued that the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington could trigger a far more damaging 'secondary' harm: sweeping new government surveillance of phone calls, email and physical movement. He distinguished basic weapons screening at airports, which he considers a minor inconvenience, from mass data collection, which he says threatens core civil liberties regardless of whether it actually improves security.