Like I said, to the "bad cop" he knows who the perp is. He knows.
..because the 'perp' doesn't have white skin. Racism is alive and thriving in America, it never went away, it just went underground. Wake up and stop being dumb.
Problem is the way things are going if they threaten to quit the government goons will probably threaten them and their families with detention and prosecution.
Surprise, asshole! I'm not planning on voting for any of them, Republican or Democrat. I'll vote for some 3rd-party candidate, just to give the finger to the whole process.
I don't want a 'revolution'; I just want them all to leave me the hell alone!
That would be because there is no difference. Any pretense to 'civil rights' or 'government by the people, for the people' is being shown to be just a facade.
..no. That's not what I'd call protesting anything. Your ballot wasn't counted for anything at all that way, and as such was completely wasted. You may as well have not even bothered showing up. Wasn't there even a blank line for a write-in candidate? Even putting down your own name as a write-in would have made more of a statement, I think.
No, I actually do get the point. If I didn't then why would I have said what I said in the first place? If things were better in the real world then we wouldn't have as many young black men being shot down in the streets for, apparently, just being young black men. Comparatively speaking, a fictional character like Jack Bauer is closer to the ideal than reality.
OP, why do you hate America so much? Encryption is something used by criminals, terrorists, and pedophiles; are you one of those? Perhaps you'd better check yourself, Comrade Castionsosa. Think of the children!
Exactly. If you abstain from voting at all on things that matter, you may as well be saying you're OK with living in a dictatorship. No, thanks, I'll keep my right to representation and 'government by the people, for the people'. In fact you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
I agree wholeheartedly with that. No political party fully represents my beliefs and interests so why should I have to put up with a 'one size fits all' philosophy? I don't think I'm in as small as a minority as some might believe, either; I think many, like myself, have been voting for the 'least bad' for decades and are as tired of it as I am. Additionally I believe we need a 'None of the Above' on all ballots, and if that's what gets the most votes then you exclude all the candidates and start over with a fresh batch until you get someone the majority agrees on.
Every intelligent, well meaning person could stop voting and it wouldn't make the slightest difference
Nice bait, asshole, you almost got me with that one. Now shut the fuck up and go back to 4chan/pol/ where you belong, or we'll turn the firehose on you again.
What you see as hypocritical, they see as strategic.
I'd like to point out, for the benefit of those who somehow haven't already got the memo, that there are 'law enforcement' types all over the place, who would like nothing better than to return to the 'good old days' of being able to drag a 'suspect' into a room, and beat them senseless, repeatedly if necessary, until they sign a pre-written 'confession' of their 'crimes' -- then railroad them through the court system, and into prison. That's the sort of mentality we're dealing with here, even if (on the surface) they seem more sophisticated about it. Law enforcement at all levels tends to attract control-freak types who in their heart of hearts believe they're above the law they're supposedly enforcing, and should be allowed to do whatever they want in pursuit of that so-called 'enforcement', and that peoples' 'rights' should be more like a 'privilege' that they can revoke whenever they feel like it.
Because, as another AC pointed out for me, it's not like in 2012 (or in 2008 for that matter) there were any better choices. I did what I thought was the best I could, naively wanting to make my vote count for something. I won't be making the same mistake this time, I want to vote for some 3rd-party candidate, regardless of them not having a snowball's chance in hell, as a form of protest of how completely screwed up and useless our electroral system has become.
Unless Trump gets the candidacy. Then I have a moral dilemna on my hands: Vote for someone who has no chance of winning, as a protest, or vote for some Democrat, who has a chance of winning, so it's one more vote against Trump. Believe me I'm angry enough at all this for potentially putting me in this position. I want a clear conscience, one way or the other, but I'd just as soon not have to vote for someone who I don't like or believe in just to prevent someone I think is even worse from getting elected; I'm sick and tired of having to choose the 'least bad' instead of the 'best' because I don't have any other choices.
Don't bother trolling me about Trump, or Hillary, or any of the rest of them. I think they're all lying scumbags one way or another, I think none of them deserve to be POTUS, and I don't want to vote for any of them. I don't really want to vote for some 3rd-party (likely Libertarian) candidate either, but since there's no 'None of the Above' on our POTUS ballots, I can't use that as a form of protest either. Not voting at all is not an option, that makes me worse than people who vote blindly for whatever candidate their party trots out there (I'm not affiliated with any political party whatsoever).
Could we please have a President that doesn't suck ass? For once?
If the bad guys are as smart as they seem to assert (and there's no reason to think that at least some are), then they're just going to switch to roll your own solutions, use burner phones for any instant communication
You did see where I said exactly that, right? Which is what I've said over and over and over again, which is what I sent to the Whitehouse itself, more than once (let 'em come and arrest me as a terrorist sympathizer, if they dare). I've more or less given up assuming politicians and other various people involved just don't understand what they're asking for, I'm really close to finally concluding that this is just power seeking more power. I just hope there are enough decent people in positions of power themselves who are willing and able to stand in the way of bullshit like this.
Genie's already out of the bottle. It would take the fall of civilization, in particular the loss of the Internet, and several new generations, with the old generations dying off, to erase actual knowledge at this point. Also as previously stated people and organizations have been successfully hiding things for hundreds and thousands of years. If no one had encryption anymore they'd find a way to secure their communications.
the bad guys will not use apple, they may make their own OS, which doesn't have the back doors.
This is true, or some version of it at any rate. Encryption isn't some Top Secret thing that only the government has. It's a mathematical fact, it's available to the general public in any number of different forms, and furthermore anyone with sufficient knowledge on the subject can write encryption software if need be. Screwing everyone else over on data security will not accomplish making anyone safer nor will it help catch criminals and foil terrorist plots. They'll just do an end-run around it. Or maybe they'll go back to using custom codebooks. Or any number of other long-standing methods of counter-surveillance. The entire premise that this is being demanded for 'national security' is so patina-thin, I can't believe anyone with an IQ even slightly above average would believe it anymore, given they've been following all this.
The FBI is being lazy at best, disingenuos and power-grabbing at worst.
President Obama is being improperly advised and/or technically ignorant at best, and being an enabler to the power-hungry and/or a power-grabber himself. Note that I voted for this man, twice! Wishing I'd not have done so now.
Apple needs to stand it's ground, and cetain people in the FBI need to stand down -- or perhaps be asked to resign.
They need to have a switch somewhere in the vehicle that completely disables the wireless transceiver, then. No way I want anyone having any chance of wirelessly hacking any vehicle I'm driving. I'll find and disconnect/short the antenna(s) myself if I have to.
Like many people I shop at more than one store in order to get the best (real, not fake) prices on things I need, and none of them require any such 'membership'. You want to ensure my 'loyalty'? Stay out my business, leave my personal information alone, don't price-gouge me, and don't have people working there that do things to piss me off. It's as simple as that, and I think I'm far from being unique in this.
Sadly, some of these 'rewards' or 'customer loyalty' programs may be 100% legit with no ulterior motives, but you can't tell which ones are and which ones aren't. Therefore I avoid them completely.
IP address assigned by network providerNot much you can do about that one, it's the way an IP network works.
Vehicle license plateGrass-roots campaign to stop automated tracking?
OnStar equipped vehicleDon't have it in your car. Or physically hack as much of it out of the vehicle as you can. At least find the antennas it's using.
Credit/debit card numberPay cash for as many things as you can.
Transit card numberPay cash for the bus/train?
Cellphone's IMEI numberTurn off your phone when you're not actively using it. At least you minimize the tracking that way.
Face/biometricsGrass-roots campaign to stop automated tracking? Trying to defeat this just draws more attention unfortunately.
store loyalty card numberDon't accept/use them, ever. Whether they show it to you or not, there has to be some sort of agreement that you're implicitly agreeing to by accepting the card, and agreement that allows them to collect more data than the law allows otherwise. Never use them or have them at all.
Reminder: You're a dope if you use Facebook, or any other 'social media' platform. It's like smoking: If you're doing it, you can't in any way claim you didn't know it was a bad idea, but you're doing it anyway. These are not survival traits.
Yeah sure but I'm going to make it clear anyway: 'brown nose' in reference to nosy government types that have their noses up everyones' ass, not 'brown' as in ethnicity.
Gee, I feel so much better about the direction the United States is going, knowing that 4 times as many people in India are facing the same things we are.
..wait, NO, I'M NOT, it's all BULLSHIT. FUCK this dystopian future we're facing! This shit has to STOP!
MEMO TO GOVERNMENT ASSHOLES ALL OVER THE WORLD: Stop spying on us! Stop sticking your little brown noses into our lives! FUCK THE FUCK OFF!
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Like I said, to the "bad cop" he knows who the perp is. He knows.
..because the 'perp' doesn't have white skin. Racism is alive and thriving in America, it never went away, it just went underground. Wake up and stop being dumb.
Problem is the way things are going if they threaten to quit the government goons will probably threaten them and their families with detention and prosecution.
Surprise, asshole! I'm not planning on voting for any of them, Republican or Democrat. I'll vote for some 3rd-party candidate, just to give the finger to the whole process.
I don't want a 'revolution'; I just want them all to leave me the hell alone!
That would be because there is no difference. Any pretense to 'civil rights' or 'government by the people, for the people' is being shown to be just a facade.
..no. That's not what I'd call protesting anything. Your ballot wasn't counted for anything at all that way, and as such was completely wasted. You may as well have not even bothered showing up. Wasn't there even a blank line for a write-in candidate? Even putting down your own name as a write-in would have made more of a statement, I think.
No, I actually do get the point. If I didn't then why would I have said what I said in the first place? If things were better in the real world then we wouldn't have as many young black men being shot down in the streets for, apparently, just being young black men. Comparatively speaking, a fictional character like Jack Bauer is closer to the ideal than reality.
Apparently at least one person out there doesn't recognize sarcasm when they see it?
OP, why do you hate America so much? Encryption is something used by criminals, terrorists, and pedophiles; are you one of those? Perhaps you'd better check yourself, Comrade Castionsosa. Think of the children!
At least Jack Bauer was actually trying to save people's lives and prevent actual terrorism from happening, not just grabbing power.
Exactly. If you abstain from voting at all on things that matter, you may as well be saying you're OK with living in a dictatorship. No, thanks, I'll keep my right to representation and 'government by the people, for the people'. In fact you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
We need a non-partisan primary system
I agree wholeheartedly with that. No political party fully represents my beliefs and interests so why should I have to put up with a 'one size fits all' philosophy? I don't think I'm in as small as a minority as some might believe, either; I think many, like myself, have been voting for the 'least bad' for decades and are as tired of it as I am. Additionally I believe we need a 'None of the Above' on all ballots, and if that's what gets the most votes then you exclude all the candidates and start over with a fresh batch until you get someone the majority agrees on.
Every intelligent, well meaning person could stop voting and it wouldn't make the slightest difference
Nice bait, asshole, you almost got me with that one. Now shut the fuck up and go back to 4chan/pol/ where you belong, or we'll turn the firehose on you again.
What you see as hypocritical, they see as strategic.
I'd like to point out, for the benefit of those who somehow haven't already got the memo, that there are 'law enforcement' types all over the place, who would like nothing better than to return to the 'good old days' of being able to drag a 'suspect' into a room, and beat them senseless, repeatedly if necessary, until they sign a pre-written 'confession' of their 'crimes' -- then railroad them through the court system, and into prison. That's the sort of mentality we're dealing with here, even if (on the surface) they seem more sophisticated about it. Law enforcement at all levels tends to attract control-freak types who in their heart of hearts believe they're above the law they're supposedly enforcing, and should be allowed to do whatever they want in pursuit of that so-called 'enforcement', and that peoples' 'rights' should be more like a 'privilege' that they can revoke whenever they feel like it.
Because, as another AC pointed out for me, it's not like in 2012 (or in 2008 for that matter) there were any better choices. I did what I thought was the best I could, naively wanting to make my vote count for something. I won't be making the same mistake this time, I want to vote for some 3rd-party candidate, regardless of them not having a snowball's chance in hell, as a form of protest of how completely screwed up and useless our electroral system has become.
Unless Trump gets the candidacy. Then I have a moral dilemna on my hands: Vote for someone who has no chance of winning, as a protest, or vote for some Democrat, who has a chance of winning, so it's one more vote against Trump. Believe me I'm angry enough at all this for potentially putting me in this position. I want a clear conscience, one way or the other, but I'd just as soon not have to vote for someone who I don't like or believe in just to prevent someone I think is even worse from getting elected; I'm sick and tired of having to choose the 'least bad' instead of the 'best' because I don't have any other choices.
Don't bother trolling me about Trump, or Hillary, or any of the rest of them. I think they're all lying scumbags one way or another, I think none of them deserve to be POTUS, and I don't want to vote for any of them. I don't really want to vote for some 3rd-party (likely Libertarian) candidate either, but since there's no 'None of the Above' on our POTUS ballots, I can't use that as a form of protest either. Not voting at all is not an option, that makes me worse than people who vote blindly for whatever candidate their party trots out there (I'm not affiliated with any political party whatsoever).
Could we please have a President that doesn't suck ass? For once?
If the bad guys are as smart as they seem to assert (and there's no reason to think that at least some are), then they're just going to switch to roll your own solutions, use burner phones for any instant communication
You did see where I said exactly that, right? Which is what I've said over and over and over again, which is what I sent to the Whitehouse itself, more than once (let 'em come and arrest me as a terrorist sympathizer, if they dare). I've more or less given up assuming politicians and other various people involved just don't understand what they're asking for, I'm really close to finally concluding that this is just power seeking more power. I just hope there are enough decent people in positions of power themselves who are willing and able to stand in the way of bullshit like this.
Genie's already out of the bottle. It would take the fall of civilization, in particular the loss of the Internet, and several new generations, with the old generations dying off, to erase actual knowledge at this point. Also as previously stated people and organizations have been successfully hiding things for hundreds and thousands of years. If no one had encryption anymore they'd find a way to secure their communications.
the bad guys will not use apple, they may make their own OS, which doesn't have the back doors.
This is true, or some version of it at any rate. Encryption isn't some Top Secret thing that only the government has. It's a mathematical fact, it's available to the general public in any number of different forms, and furthermore anyone with sufficient knowledge on the subject can write encryption software if need be. Screwing everyone else over on data security will not accomplish making anyone safer nor will it help catch criminals and foil terrorist plots. They'll just do an end-run around it. Or maybe they'll go back to using custom codebooks. Or any number of other long-standing methods of counter-surveillance. The entire premise that this is being demanded for 'national security' is so patina-thin, I can't believe anyone with an IQ even slightly above average would believe it anymore, given they've been following all this.
The FBI is being lazy at best, disingenuos and power-grabbing at worst.
President Obama is being improperly advised and/or technically ignorant at best, and being an enabler to the power-hungry and/or a power-grabber himself. Note that I voted for this man, twice! Wishing I'd not have done so now.
Apple needs to stand it's ground, and cetain people in the FBI need to stand down -- or perhaps be asked to resign.
They need to have a switch somewhere in the vehicle that completely disables the wireless transceiver, then. No way I want anyone having any chance of wirelessly hacking any vehicle I'm driving. I'll find and disconnect/short the antenna(s) myself if I have to.
Like many people I shop at more than one store in order to get the best (real, not fake) prices on things I need, and none of them require any such 'membership'. You want to ensure my 'loyalty'? Stay out my business, leave my personal information alone, don't price-gouge me, and don't have people working there that do things to piss me off. It's as simple as that, and I think I'm far from being unique in this.
Sadly, some of these 'rewards' or 'customer loyalty' programs may be 100% legit with no ulterior motives, but you can't tell which ones are and which ones aren't. Therefore I avoid them completely.
IP address assigned by network providerNot much you can do about that one, it's the way an IP network works.
Vehicle license plateGrass-roots campaign to stop automated tracking?
OnStar equipped vehicleDon't have it in your car. Or physically hack as much of it out of the vehicle as you can. At least find the antennas it's using.
Credit/debit card numberPay cash for as many things as you can.
Transit card numberPay cash for the bus/train?
Cellphone's IMEI numberTurn off your phone when you're not actively using it. At least you minimize the tracking that way.
Face/biometricsGrass-roots campaign to stop automated tracking? Trying to defeat this just draws more attention unfortunately.
store loyalty card numberDon't accept/use them, ever. Whether they show it to you or not, there has to be some sort of agreement that you're implicitly agreeing to by accepting the card, and agreement that allows them to collect more data than the law allows otherwise. Never use them or have them at all.
That's the best advice I can give you, friend.
Of course, Facebook tracks everything
Reminder: You're a dope if you use Facebook, or any other 'social media' platform. It's like smoking: If you're doing it, you can't in any way claim you didn't know it was a bad idea, but you're doing it anyway. These are not survival traits.
Have you tried setting the Windows Update service to 'Disabled'? If so, what happened? If not, try it, report back to us.
Oh and you're a cow. XDDD
Please do try the above, though; that was a serious question/suggestion.
/sarc
Yeah sure but I'm going to make it clear anyway: 'brown nose' in reference to nosy government types that have their noses up everyones' ass, not 'brown' as in ethnicity.
Gee, I feel so much better about the direction the United States is going, knowing that 4 times as many people in India are facing the same things we are.
..wait, NO, I'M NOT, it's all BULLSHIT. FUCK this dystopian future we're facing! This shit has to STOP!
MEMO TO GOVERNMENT ASSHOLES ALL OVER THE WORLD: Stop spying on us! Stop sticking your little brown noses into our lives! FUCK THE FUCK OFF!