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Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years (theintercept.com)
An anonymous reader cites an article on The Intercept: The director of national intelligence on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for advancing the development of user-friendly, widely available strong encryption. "As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years," James Clapper said. The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against terrorists," he said. When pressed by The Intercept to explain his figure, Clapper said it came from the National Security Agency. "The projected growth maturation and installation of commercially available encryption -- what they had forecasted for seven years ahead, three years ago, was accelerated to now, because of the revelation of the leaks." Asked if that was a good thing, leading to better protection for American consumers from the arms race of hackers constantly trying to penetrate software worldwide, Clapper answered no. "From our standpoint, it's not ⦠it's not a good thing," he said."Of all the things I've been accused of," Snowden said, "this is the one of which I am most proud."
More women working has weakened the US.
You think it is a coincidence that 40 years of feminism coincide with 40 years of increasing income inequality, increasing debt by everyone except the rich, skyrocketing govt. debt, crumbling infrastructure, and so on?
Used to be a family could live rather well on one working class income. Now 2 or 3 or 4 incomes are needed. There is a glut of labor, and again real wages have stagnated or gone down for virtually all workers.
It's all a con by the oligarchs to increase control and squeeze more blood from us stones.
Now feminists complain about pay inequality. Much of that is poor statistical analysis, but let's grant women are paid less. The oligarchs will fix that right quick. How? By paying men less.
Everybody happy now?