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I had a long lunch today with Eddie Parker, an old co-worker from when we both worked at PixSell. He's moved on to consulting and such now, but it was good to hook up with him for lunch.

He asked me for information about copying a disk from one machine to another on Solaris. The important thing here was installboot but in the process of looking up information about this I came accross numerous pointers to securityportal.com's "Cold Mirroring" instructions. Unfortunatly, it was only pointers. The actual page was 404.

So much to think about and worry about. Bush seems to be taking this opportunity to use military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, and his administration has taken to eavesdropping on suspects' conversations with their lawyer.

They can get away with this because people don't care about the terrorists.

They don't think that they can be designated a suspect, so they figure the new rules won't apply to them. The government takes advantage of this apathy by granting themselves more and more power. Civil liberties for suspected terrorists have taken a precipitous dive over the past couple of months. And, when suspects loose rights, we all loose rights.

This reminds me of what a co-worker said about downloading music over the Internet using Napster. "Until a judge decides its illegal, I don't care."

Just another note on the note below about government's growing power.

All it took to give the government these powers were decrees. "Ok, we're doing things this way from now on." Perhaps non-citizens shouldn't expect any constitutional rights, but what if a suspect is a citizen? Next thing you know, it'll be drug smuggling suspects who are tried by the military. Then any immigrant and non-citizen. Then we'll get any citizen who does really nasty things.