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04/03/2008: "Link between pirate software and terrorism is spurious"

Attorney General Michael Mukasey claims that terrorists sell pirated software as a way to finance their operations, without presenting a shred of evidence for his case. He's doing it to push through a
controversial piece of legislation that's bad for you.

Mukasey went on to cite numerous cases in which the Justice Department has arrested those who pirate software, and in which the department has cooperated with other countries in investigations. He mentioned arrests in Florida, investigations in China, and warned about the Russian mob being involved in selling pirated software.

In not a single instance did Mukasey include a link to terrorism.

[ More new enemies: hackers and ecoterrorists and terrorists and drug
users... but we never investigate the enemy within. ]

http://blogs.computerworld.com/feds_lie_about_link_between_software_piracy_and_terrorism