Suppose that you have in your neighbourhood someone with a lot of weapons. Then the maid tells you, and gives you evidence, that he stole from you and other people you know, but you don't do anything, because he have weapons, and people could get hurt. But the maid that warned you know from a lot of more things that he did, several probably worse than the things you know already, like, don't know, killed a bunch of friends and have them buried in the backyard, kidnapped some childs and have them enclosed in the basement, and/or that accident that killed your grampa, was him, and wasn't an accident. Would you prefer to keep ignoring what he is doing and risking to be you, or your children their next victims or knowing, reporting him to the police or at least be prepared for when he targets you? You think that things will improve just ignoring what he does?
Is worse than that. Is not just an abstract enemy. Is someone that killed a lot of people, buried the bodies, and now is complaining about anyone that goes with a shovel to the forest, as is something bad that we are doing with them. Good part of the crime is already done, and odds are high that you notice some of this just when you become the next victim if nothing of this is uncovered.
Firefox have also the possibiity of a master password to be able to access those stored passwords. Chrome just didn't saw that as something that would essentially make a difference in the long term. Another different topic is how they are stored here is a comparison between Firefox, Chrome and IE, where Chome seem to not be very secure in that area, Firefox with master password is the safest, and IE dropped badly the security there in the latest versions.
IF we broke international law, kidnap/kill a citizen of another country in that other country, someone that denounced that us are breaking the human rights of basically every human of the planet, and steal their intellectual property, then could be consequences. The real, big problem, is the first move, not the consequences. Whats next? Killers that complain that judges will try to put them in jail, as if everything is judges fault?
The solution for fixing corrupt governments is education, not have so much dumb people that keep voting the same government despite being evident what is coming. And a cheap computers running in solar power is a step (not sure how big, but a step) toward solving some environmental problems. Regarding people chained by the scammers of the industry, well, i don't think it would help a lot.
For extra motivation, if they even suspect that you will pull another Snowden of them, they will turn you into bits! Who don't want to be the ghost in the machine?
That don't work if they can hack on your computer and get the private key, even if is thru a windows backdoor. Controlling all the stack implies nasty possibilities.
They want to protect the children as much as they chasing terrorist, capture some people that sell/use drugs or catch (not very big) tax evaders, They will use those "wars" to show some results, but their main target is still the US population, the only ones capable to take them out of power.
You should had to be running Firefox 17 on windows afaik (that was the version included by the Tor Bundle). Anyway, running a browser in a disposable linux container should be more or less safe between sessions.
They have the DOJ and most of the government in their pocket, they can bring law to whoever they want for whatever reason they want. Now, justice, thats another topic, in which country you try to use that word?
If you count the hundreds to millons that lost job, houses, fell into poverty, prostitution, or died at consequences of them getting richer, in all the world, i think that rope and pitchforks below what justice should do. But if you want to point exactly who died, i'd say justice. What happened with them (and the rest of that mafia) is just the death note for anything that resembles justice in US.
When the target of snooping were foreing citizens all was OK, no reason to complain. Then they started watching "suspicious people", but it was for national security, just a few, is justified. Now is on everyone, specially US citizens, your time to complain has passed already.
Hoarding of goods used to mean cooperation. But add to that interchange of hoarded goods and make it virtual so it can be infinitely accumulated and give it its own meaning instead of "goods, just a lot of them", and selfishness becomes an emergent behaviour, specially if that meaning is shared by the other members of your species. We as civilizaiton acquired a few very destructive memes and will be hard to get rid of them.
Other people with access to your computer (like repair shops) could label you as child pornographer for having pictures of your grandchildren playing on it (and your cellphone would be a liability too). Your digital life must become your self-censored digital life because someone could take out of context something you did or recorded and use it against you.
50 civilians are killed by drones for every terrorist. I suppose that at least same amount of false positives will go for the information gathered by the government's data snooping operations, but with far more hits as there is a lot of information gathered. And those false positives effect could go to just stipping you of any privacy left, no matter if you are an US citizen, to get visit from the Feds, to "dissapear". Don't be afraid just of the Big Brother, now the Texas sharpshooters will be in your next nightmare.
In absolute terms, Linux won, as is "the most used OS across all computer devices in absolute numbers. Now, if you focus your attention in a particular area could not be as used there as in the global average, but those areas seem to be losing relevance each day, in part by the growing market of cellphones/tablets for doing things that used to require a desktop computer, the Microsoft election of Windows 8 for everything, and maybe more recent, in the lack of privacy (that for enterprise data could be a killer) implied in Microsoft solutions, specially the hosted ones like Office 365.
They should buy Lisa Simpson's tiger repelling rocks. There is some point where you should just concede that can't be all idiocy and should be some malice in that fallacy generating machine that are politics.
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Suppose that you have in your neighbourhood someone with a lot of weapons. Then the maid tells you, and gives you evidence, that he stole from you and other people you know, but you don't do anything, because he have weapons, and people could get hurt. But the maid that warned you know from a lot of more things that he did, several probably worse than the things you know already, like, don't know, killed a bunch of friends and have them buried in the backyard, kidnapped some childs and have them enclosed in the basement, and/or that accident that killed your grampa, was him, and wasn't an accident. Would you prefer to keep ignoring what he is doing and risking to be you, or your children their next victims or knowing, reporting him to the police or at least be prepared for when he targets you? You think that things will improve just ignoring what he does?
Thats what every pathological killer would do if caught, try to kill all the witnesses.
Consider that Sweden wiretapped russian international traffic for the NSA and vetoed EU investigation against US spying the message is clear. They are not stepping back even when is clear for everyone what they are perpetrating, just keep raising the bets.
Is worse than that. Is not just an abstract enemy. Is someone that killed a lot of people, buried the bodies, and now is complaining about anyone that goes with a shovel to the forest, as is something bad that we are doing with them. Good part of the crime is already done, and odds are high that you notice some of this just when you become the next victim if nothing of this is uncovered.
Firefox have also the possibiity of a master password to be able to access those stored passwords. Chrome just didn't saw that as something that would essentially make a difference in the long term. Another different topic is how they are stored here is a comparison between Firefox, Chrome and IE, where Chome seem to not be very secure in that area, Firefox with master password is the safest, and IE dropped badly the security there in the latest versions.
IF we broke international law, kidnap/kill a citizen of another country in that other country, someone that denounced that us are breaking the human rights of basically every human of the planet, and steal their intellectual property, then could be consequences. The real, big problem, is the first move, not the consequences. Whats next? Killers that complain that judges will try to put them in jail, as if everything is judges fault?
The solution for fixing corrupt governments is education, not have so much dumb people that keep voting the same government despite being evident what is coming. And a cheap computers running in solar power is a step (not sure how big, but a step) toward solving some environmental problems. Regarding people chained by the scammers of the industry, well, i don't think it would help a lot.
For extra motivation, if they even suspect that you will pull another Snowden of them, they will turn you into bits! Who don't want to be the ghost in the machine?
That don't work if they can hack on your computer and get the private key, even if is thru a windows backdoor. Controlling all the stack implies nasty possibilities.
They want to protect the children as much as they chasing terrorist, capture some people that sell/use drugs or catch (not very big) tax evaders, They will use those "wars" to show some results, but their main target is still the US population, the only ones capable to take them out of power.
You should had to be running Firefox 17 on windows afaik (that was the version included by the Tor Bundle). Anyway, running a browser in a disposable linux container should be more or less safe between sessions.
Maybe you would consider intentionally hosting a child porn site something legal? That happened inside US, after all.
Anyway, lose any hope to find justice in US, you are part of them and then outside law's reach , or you are not, and you can be labeled as terrorist, jailed for decades under any excuse, or eliminated if you cause trouble to their protegees.
They have the DOJ and most of the government in their pocket, they can bring law to whoever they want for whatever reason they want. Now, justice, thats another topic, in which country you try to use that word?
If you count the hundreds to millons that lost job, houses, fell into poverty, prostitution, or died at consequences of them getting richer, in all the world, i think that rope and pitchforks below what justice should do. But if you want to point exactly who died, i'd say justice. What happened with them (and the rest of that mafia) is just the death note for anything that resembles justice in US.
When the target of snooping were foreing citizens all was OK, no reason to complain. Then they started watching "suspicious people", but it was for national security, just a few, is justified. Now is on everyone, specially US citizens, your time to complain has passed already.
Now wait for the same sequence with drones. Just try to avoid the wrong neighbourhoods
Those are not the target of this surveillance. Their target is the people that could throw out them from power: the citizens.
The sharks simply won't stand still while the communication is being done.
"All your monoliths are belong to US"
Carefully tracking elephants in their natural environment maybe they could figure out how they manage to become invisible in american's rooms.
Hoarding of goods used to mean cooperation. But add to that interchange of hoarded goods and make it virtual so it can be infinitely accumulated and give it its own meaning instead of "goods, just a lot of them", and selfishness becomes an emergent behaviour, specially if that meaning is shared by the other members of your species. We as civilizaiton acquired a few very destructive memes and will be hard to get rid of them.
Other people with access to your computer (like repair shops) could label you as child pornographer for having pictures of your grandchildren playing on it (and your cellphone would be a liability too). Your digital life must become your self-censored digital life because someone could take out of context something you did or recorded and use it against you.
50 civilians are killed by drones for every terrorist. I suppose that at least same amount of false positives will go for the information gathered by the government's data snooping operations, but with far more hits as there is a lot of information gathered. And those false positives effect could go to just stipping you of any privacy left, no matter if you are an US citizen, to get visit from the Feds, to "dissapear". Don't be afraid just of the Big Brother, now the Texas sharpshooters will be in your next nightmare.
In absolute terms, Linux won, as is "the most used OS across all computer devices in absolute numbers. Now, if you focus your attention in a particular area could not be as used there as in the global average, but those areas seem to be losing relevance each day, in part by the growing market of cellphones/tablets for doing things that used to require a desktop computer, the Microsoft election of Windows 8 for everything, and maybe more recent, in the lack of privacy (that for enterprise data could be a killer) implied in Microsoft solutions, specially the hosted ones like Office 365.
Like this 82 year-old nun? Anyway, after such long campaing to create terrorist in all the world better that exist some.
They should buy Lisa Simpson's tiger repelling rocks. There is some point where you should just concede that can't be all idiocy and should be some malice in that fallacy generating machine that are politics.