i-9/11

The blogs are all about Lawrence Lessig's comment about a i-9/11 made during the 2018: Life on the Net panel discussion at this year's Fortune Brainstorm. Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Creative Commons, who has a knack for often making bold yet entirely rational statements, asserted that an online security threat, similar in magnitude to the devestation of the World Trade Center, will happen sometime in the future. If such an event occurs, a new crackdown legal-framework, similar to the Patriot Act, will be put into place. Talking to a governmental official, Lessig says that such an emergency policy has already been drawn up.  read more »