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U.S. Government Hires Company To Hack Into Video Game Consoles
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Navy is paying a company six figures to hack into used video game consoles and extract sensitive information. The tasks to be completed are for both offline and online data. The organization says it will only use the technology on consoles belonging to nations overseas, because the law doesn't allow it to be used on any 'U.S. persons.'" Should be a doddle.
More government spending, more invasion of privacy, more unauthorised behaviour, more deficit and debt, more government jobs (paid for with debt of-course), more government contracts, more money printing - inflation.
Less real economic activity, less freedoms, less real value in money.
Only one good thing hopefully will come out of this: fewer people supporting government actions, less desire to have this type of government, getting closer to the point when this becomes completely unbearable (of-course this will only really end when all resources end as government consumes them all).
What's funny is people on this site saying that people consume too many resources, so there needs to be birth control done by government. When they get a reply that people are not a drain on the system, they are a resource that need to be freed from government oppression to solve the problems of resources, so many of /. posters argue against it.
They want government to control every aspect of human life, including artificially controlling birth rates, so that government can get one more leverage point against the people while doing THIS kind of nonsense?
The REAL drain on the system is GOVERNMENT.
You can't handle the truth.