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Home Secretary Requests Fingerprint-Activated iPods

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the losing-battles-to-fight dept.

John Reid, Home Secretary, has called upon tech manufacturers to improve the security on their gadgets to help with his recent push to frustrate criminals. Inviting Apple, Sony, and several others to his crime fighting summit Reid hopes to attack the rising robbery numbers in the most recent Home Office figures.

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  1. Re:In resoponse to the added security... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given this new threat, the Home Secretary is calling for iPods controlled by brain waves.


    I guess the Current Occupant of the White House won't be getting a new iPod after all...

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  2. Re:Hey, disarming your citizens is working... by ZWithaPGGB · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, so you're called "citizens" but without the basic premise that creates citizenship: that you, not the state, are sovereign. How can you be "citizens" in the traditional sense of the word, when you don't live in a Republic?
    Last I checked, the UK doesn't have a written constitution (a contract between the sovereign people and their government).
    Doesn't change the fact that, by trampling on individual rights to self defense, Blair et al have increased, rather than decreased, crime. The solution to which is more and more surveilance by the police.
    As Ben Franklin said: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." What he failed to mention is that they usually get neither, often becoming victims of the very "security" apparatus they create by giving up liberty.