Considering how the US government acts, I'd imagine that there's a good case for calling it a terrorist organisation... Good news! It's now illegal to pay taxes in the US!! ;)

I know that, and you know that, but I doubt very much that the government would be overly bothered by the fact.

The government want opt-outs to be as humiliating as possible. If they were to say something along the lines of "law abiding citizens wouldn't want to bring our transport system grinding to a halt", they can imply that protesters are no better than criminals.

Am I cynical to think that the government will want to paint this as inciting an act of terrorism?* I'm just hoping that Joe Public isn't that stupid. Yet.

* I imagine that such a protest will cause the system to slow to a crawl, harming the law abiding citizen's ability to travel or somesuch.

Owl does not enable user to fly.

From the reports I've been reading, it wasn't even a bomb. To be fair, we're probably overdue for the next power grab against our rights, and they usually seem to start with a good scare...

In this case, I'd be more worried about the companies that are transmitting sensitive information over unsecured wireless networks than I am about Google. If Google can pick up such information by accident, then less trustworthy types can probably pick up similar information intentionally. Unfortunately I expect that such companies are going to get off with no repercussions as everyone gets distracted by going after Google.

I guess it depends how cynical you are about the law-making process. Whilst I'm yet to make my mind up on the current government, I can definitely see why some people make the jump to thinking that this is as good as done. It's not as if the previous government particularly cared about our rights after all.

I find a car analogy comes in handy at times like these ;)
Something recently broke inside the latch on my glovebox recently. Nissan couldn't replace the part that broke, so I managed a fix by replacing the part with some appropriately bent wire and superglue.
This would be a hack using available resources.

Maybe we should ban satellites from taking pictures too. I mean, some of them images contain images of me, my house, and my car. This should also include private satellite images, as if anything I trust the private hoarding of images by corporate or government bodies much more damaging than a publicly available resource.

Or we could just accept that there shouldn't be a problem with images of public space in the first place...

Combine this with the government's need to keep everyone afraid. Now they can arrest almost anyone as a terrorist. And those few people that don't buy into the government hype and don't smell of fear? They obviously don't listen to Big Brother, so they must be terrorists too!

That's ok, you were then modded Funny for being insightful into your mods. Personally, I'm still waiting for a +5 Cynical.

If the software is controlling a UAV, and the UAV subsequently crashes and is recovered by the enemy, does this count as distributing the the modified binaries? ;)