Entrepreneurial PATRIOTism

For those who don't seem to mind about the so-called Patriot Act infringing on their civil liberties, maybe they'll feel differently about it being used by the private sector for private gain. Such as this case, in which scammers take advantage of the threat of government action under the Act, a security bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, spam address lists, and a fair amount of stupidity on the part of its victims, to get access to their bank accounts. Not that this is an entirely original scam, but the added intimidation of living in a police state and/or a sheepish willingness to go along with it, is one of the reasons it works.