The study basicly looked at East Germany, of all socialist states, not suprising, being that its slightly anti-communist bias of "The Economist".
Communism was never supported by the population of East Germany, and was only held in place by force, and under dirrection of the Soviet Union. The Russians, really hated the germans, and saw East Germany as nothing more than speed bump to slow NATO advances.
It had the world's biggest secret police, which should also tell you something about the popularity of the state. 10 times as big as the gestapo it replaced.
>Or if you go way too far overboard, you might have a cabinet revolt to pick another party leader (and by extension prime minister).
in the USA, the president picks his cabinet, and they are basicly his apointees. Party leadership has no direct control over a sitting politician, but can only exert influence financially or with brand name support durring elections.
security is not a binary, more security == better.
Also, the less backdoors exist, the more aparant the ones that do exist are.
If you eliminate all other backdoors except the NSA's, you can be more certain the backdoors that do exist actually belong to the NSA, and the more a single entity relies on a single backdoor is the more likely it will be discovered/found/patched/made irrelivant/worked around.
>There are a class or group of people, however you want to define them, that think no matter what the US does, says, hears, thinks, or anything, they are evil. It has nothing to do with critiques or anything but a resentment for what they think has already happened (and it may have happened too).
I won't doubt that these people actually exist, but recently we've seen "HURR AMURIKKKA" comments used to describe very real concerns people have about what snowden, manning, et all have discovered, and are simply re-itterating what they've read in linked mainstream newspapers with some shock and disgust as anyone who values living in a free society should.
As for English intellegence, anything they do is considered very relivant to the USA because they are part of the five eyes partnership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I love how any critique of the American government, no matter how intellectual, or how much hard evidence exists, somehow gets retorted with "HURR EVAL AMURIKKKA", like there is some underlying conspiracy theory against America outside a reaction to facts at hand.
except its also come out that fraud is rampant, and its well known within the scentific community, that scientists with really long lists of "achievements" are most likely fakers who took shortcuts, or used bad methodology in order to further their career.
>You know, like smart and dedicated workers earning larger salaries.
this is a myth. intellegence and dedication never earned anyone a larger salary. finding a position that pays more does.
speaking of research scentists, did you know they make next to nothing, despite working really hard, and requiring intellegence that less that %1 of the population has?
making more money than they do are people who develop shitty CSS/HTML apps with limited use to humanity.
but your definition of productive only represents dollar figures, and not true economic productivity as by what most people need to survive, and what benefits the population as a whole.
most of the time its going to be stuff they either steal or copy, without letting you know who's taken it, and they are most likely not going to do anything to you to get the passwords/keys.
uncrackable encryption protects against this.
You can use rubber hose cryptography on one person. You can use rubber hose cryptography on a handful of people.
You cannot routinely beat people for information, with anything other than a fairly obvious hard police state that would make it impossible for most of America to ignore.
If in addition to playing sound it had general purpose sound cards for audio proccessing and transcoding (lets say HW ogg, flac, opus, mp3, aac, etc..) exposed to the OS, it would be worth it.
Or mabey if it had a built in amplifier, with vaccuum tubes, or a XLR or 1/4 inch inputs/outputs you could jack it dirrectly into a guitar or amplifer.
there is plenty of public outcry. You here it everywhere. In every bar, in every street corner, where there are *people*. From conservatives, to liberals, to anarchists, capitalists and socialists alike.
You won't here it on the TV, the radio, but you'll here lots of it in the printed press.
I think that has more to do with how the voting system is set up, and less to do with collective ignorance.
Collective ignorance of the US population is yet more propaganda they tell us to accept their abuse of our neighbors.
We don't have a choice at the voting booth, because of systematic elimination, and exclusion of canidates that oppose the system, and systematic corruption of any that might get through.
the USA was never a democracy, and what little bits of democracy that exist in the system only date to the early 20th century (i.e. 17th amendment).
Our constitution, declaration of independence, early government, where *not* written by men of the people, crowd sourced, or in any way shape or form made by either democratic, nor popular movements. They were written by the pre-existing state governments as existed under the crown.
Not since the civil war, has anyone, anywhere, really, had any voice in opposing the system of government, and the federalists have cemented any opposition to federalism as support for the confederacy.
oh yeah, your right. I mean no nerd ever killed them selves facing 35 to life for technical infractions related to accessing publicly available scientific files.
No nerd ever lost their job, and is on the run from US law enforcement for exposing unethical mass survialence and harrassment by the US Government.
No nerd was ever arrested for trying to do the right thing and exposing unethical or dangerous computer behavior.
No nerd was ever arrested for modifying his own video game system, that he bought, and then blabbing about it on the internet.
No nerd was ever targeted for being either a terrorist or a school shooter by rampant paranoia from authorities.
but yeah, your right, nerds are left alone by the system.
9 times out of 10, someone trying to crack your encryption is not going to be someone who is able to use that amount of leverage. Most likely they are going to subversively copy your data, or
As far as I am concerned, I don't need my encryption to completely uncrackable. If all encryption does is provide tamper evidence, and doesn't allow undetectable snooping I am OK.
Also, ability to crack encryption in an investigation/forced to decrypt for trial, is not the same as undetectable mass survailence. If all encryption does is force cops to go back to needing warrants and subopeanas, and due proccess, I think its done its job quite well.
you don't understand how these people work, and how they think.
The concept of a scientific investigation as seen on CSI is a work of creative fiction, nothing more. The capablities of the US government to deter threats including profiling the target with the largest brush feasibly possible, then trying to fuck with the people who fall under whatever target they made up enough that they point fingers at someone else, and whoever has the most fingers in their dirrection looses.
Hypocrisy and the fact that they might be targeting their best chances to do what most people think they do is not relivant.
After they label people as "extremists", they then use excedingly long jail sentances, other threats, and attempts to ruin their social lives, and a split from mainstream society as leverage to get these people to work for the NSA or other government or capitalist agencies.
They can then denounce everyone not explicitly helping them as terrorists.
The fact that most nerds, anyways still say "fuck the system" is a tribute to moral character, more absolute ideas of freedom, and knowledge of history that isn't dependant on the 2 year TV news election cycle, is a tribute to the moral fiber of the computer enthusiast, something that mainstream society lacks.
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The study basicly looked at East Germany, of all socialist states, not suprising, being that its slightly anti-communist bias of "The Economist".
Communism was never supported by the population of East Germany, and was only held in place by force, and under dirrection of the Soviet Union. The Russians, really hated the germans, and saw East Germany as nothing more than speed bump to slow NATO advances.
It had the world's biggest secret police, which should also tell you something about the popularity of the state. 10 times as big as the gestapo it replaced.
>Or if you go way too far overboard, you might have a cabinet revolt to pick another party leader (and by extension prime minister).
in the USA, the president picks his cabinet, and they are basicly his apointees. Party leadership has no direct control over a sitting politician, but can only exert influence financially or with brand name support durring elections.
next week they are hiring 10,000 more people for half the salary, who don't understand Microsoft Lync is not normal.
and regulating interstate commerce is the power of congress. unilateral action by the president here, would be....foolish.
It would be outside of the bounds of the presidents power.
your making a false dichotomy out of the two like there is any real diffrence.
or even some random hacker/script kiddie.
security is not a binary, more security == better.
Also, the less backdoors exist, the more aparant the ones that do exist are.
If you eliminate all other backdoors except the NSA's, you can be more certain the backdoors that do exist actually belong to the NSA, and the more a single entity relies on a single backdoor is the more likely it will be discovered/found/patched/made irrelivant/worked around.
>c) Those foreign countries refuse to obey US court orders
those countries are squarely on a list of countries that are considered either "non-democratic", or state sponsers of "terrorism".
but the NZ swat teams can seize Kim Dotcom's property without a warrant, pre-trial, at behest of the FBI.
However, we can't do this for bankers, or even media backed celebrities(think Roman Polanski).
Unlike Polanski, Kim Dotcom never raped anyone.
lets be honest here, thats not likely to happen anytime soon. So its really another big whatif
>There are a class or group of people, however you want to define them, that think no matter what the US does, says, hears, thinks, or anything, they are evil. It has nothing to do with critiques or anything but a resentment for what they think has already happened (and it may have happened too).
I won't doubt that these people actually exist, but recently we've seen "HURR AMURIKKKA" comments used to describe very real concerns people have about what snowden, manning, et all have discovered, and are simply re-itterating what they've read in linked mainstream newspapers with some shock and disgust as anyone who values living in a free society should.
As for English intellegence, anything they do is considered very relivant to the USA because they are part of the five eyes partnership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I love how any critique of the American government, no matter how intellectual, or how much hard evidence exists, somehow gets retorted with "HURR EVAL AMURIKKKA", like there is some underlying conspiracy theory against America outside a reaction to facts at hand.
Campaign to have a star named poitot.
upvote if you get it.
except its also come out that fraud is rampant, and its well known within the scentific community, that scientists with really long lists of "achievements" are most likely fakers who took shortcuts, or used bad methodology in order to further their career.
>You know, like smart and dedicated workers earning larger salaries.
this is a myth. intellegence and dedication never earned anyone a larger salary. finding a position that pays more does.
speaking of research scentists, did you know they make next to nothing, despite working really hard, and requiring intellegence that less that %1 of the population has?
making more money than they do are people who develop shitty CSS/HTML apps with limited use to humanity.
but your definition of productive only represents dollar figures, and not true economic productivity as by what most people need to survive, and what benefits the population as a whole.
still thinking far ahead.
most of the time its going to be stuff they either steal or copy, without letting you know who's taken it, and they are most likely not going to do anything to you to get the passwords/keys.
uncrackable encryption protects against this.
You can use rubber hose cryptography on one person. You can use rubber hose cryptography on a handful of people.
You cannot routinely beat people for information, with anything other than a fairly obvious hard police state that would make it impossible for most of America to ignore.
If in addition to playing sound it had general purpose sound cards for audio proccessing and transcoding (lets say HW ogg, flac, opus, mp3, aac, etc..) exposed to the OS, it would be worth it.
Or mabey if it had a built in amplifier, with vaccuum tubes, or a XLR or 1/4 inch inputs/outputs you could jack it dirrectly into a guitar or amplifer.
there is plenty of public outcry. You here it everywhere. In every bar, in every street corner, where there are *people*. From conservatives, to liberals, to anarchists, capitalists and socialists alike.
You won't here it on the TV, the radio, but you'll here lots of it in the printed press.
This is going to make glenn greenwald's career.
I think that has more to do with how the voting system is set up, and less to do with collective ignorance.
Collective ignorance of the US population is yet more propaganda they tell us to accept their abuse of our neighbors.
We don't have a choice at the voting booth, because of systematic elimination, and exclusion of canidates that oppose the system, and systematic corruption of any that might get through.
the USA was never a democracy, and what little bits of democracy that exist in the system only date to the early 20th century (i.e. 17th amendment).
Our constitution, declaration of independence, early government, where *not* written by men of the people, crowd sourced, or in any way shape or form made by either democratic, nor popular movements. They were written by the pre-existing state governments as existed under the crown.
Not since the civil war, has anyone, anywhere, really, had any voice in opposing the system of government, and the federalists have cemented any opposition to federalism as support for the confederacy.
its probably the biggest dent thats been made post reagan.
You don't see it on the TV, but people are slowly starting to question everything.
The only people immune from this, are people who have *a lot* to loose if the government comes crashing down.
I think at this point if your not on a terrorist list, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
you mean like catching rapists who broadcast their deeds online. I mean terrible, its some sort of violation of the bro code.
oh yeah, your right. I mean no nerd ever killed them selves facing 35 to life for technical infractions related to accessing publicly available scientific files.
No nerd ever lost their job, and is on the run from US law enforcement for exposing unethical mass survialence and harrassment by the US Government.
No nerd was ever arrested for trying to do the right thing and exposing unethical or dangerous computer behavior.
No nerd was ever arrested for modifying his own video game system, that he bought, and then blabbing about it on the internet.
No nerd was ever targeted for being either a terrorist or a school shooter by rampant paranoia from authorities.
but yeah, your right, nerds are left alone by the system.
that is somewhat bullshit.
9 times out of 10, someone trying to crack your encryption is not going to be someone who is able to use that amount of leverage. Most likely they are going to subversively copy your data, or
As far as I am concerned, I don't need my encryption to completely uncrackable. If all encryption does is provide tamper evidence, and doesn't allow undetectable snooping I am OK.
Also, ability to crack encryption in an investigation/forced to decrypt for trial, is not the same as undetectable mass survailence. If all encryption does is force cops to go back to needing warrants and subopeanas, and due proccess, I think its done its job quite well.
I could swear a few stories up is this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07/03/1846215/nsa-considers-linux-journal-readers-tor-and-linux-users-extremists
we don't put people in jail for unconventional thoughts eh?
Oh wait, only if they are STEM graduates.
you don't understand how these people work, and how they think.
The concept of a scientific investigation as seen on CSI is a work of creative fiction, nothing more. The capablities of the US government to deter threats including profiling the target with the largest brush feasibly possible, then trying to fuck with the people who fall under whatever target they made up enough that they point fingers at someone else, and whoever has the most fingers in their dirrection looses.
Hypocrisy and the fact that they might be targeting their best chances to do what most people think they do is not relivant.
After they label people as "extremists", they then use excedingly long jail sentances, other threats, and attempts to ruin their social lives, and a split from mainstream society as leverage to get these people to work for the NSA or other government or capitalist agencies.
They can then denounce everyone not explicitly helping them as terrorists.
The fact that most nerds, anyways still say "fuck the system" is a tribute to moral character, more absolute ideas of freedom, and knowledge of history that isn't dependant on the 2 year TV news election cycle, is a tribute to the moral fiber of the computer enthusiast, something that mainstream society lacks.
very acurate actually.
There are all kinds of LRFs on the market, and tanks and other military equipment use them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=laser+range+finder&client=firefox-a&hs=lCg&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&prmd=ivnsp&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=71mwU_3NG6fJsQS1woGQBA&ved=0CAgQ_AU