They were your servers before, you had most of the control on them, and their content. Then you had a person acting in an irresponsible, stupid, or criminal way and now that you moved to the magic cloud you think that you are safe from people acting that way, giving total control to a lot of people which any of them could act that way too?
I remember an episode of ST:DS9 (paradise lost, i think) when just 2 "terrorists" that couldn't be found and could be anyone almost turned a government respectful of their citizens into a deep police state, even with the good will of the ones doing it. And in this case we can't assume the good will of everyone in the "law" side.
The problem is that you don't need to have "real" connections to expand the circle of watching a lot. Assumed, misidentified (you know, all those biometric tests that have 90% accuracy of identifying the right person, and 30% of misidentifying the wrong one), that sound alike (i.e. if they are intercepting phone calls of them, and some say something that could sound like your name), contact collectors that like to have thousands of friends in facebook/linkedin/etc and friended you and one of them, or even spammers that send mail using the address of other people.
Think that you are in the open, there is a big electric storm forming, and you don't know if the next random lightning will hit you or someone close to you. And you can't take cover.
How much of those servers (if run Windows, at least) have applied the patches that are not yet available for the normal customers because they are still in the NSA exploit queue?
Yeah, i read that discourse somewhere else... If there is a potential cyberweapon that could be used against US, would be advisable to know everything about it. Next thing you know its that CIA is doing the attacks over all the world "just because we can". Oh, there are potential terrorists in that country? lets send a cat 5 hurricane to their capital so they learn, killing hundreds innocent victims. And then if a storm that makes Sandy looks like a breeze hits a big US city as consequence because global climate is interlinked they will just argue that it was done for national security.
No matter what kind of tool you give to them, they see everything as a nail to be hammered.
And while doing that, plug the entire population to that simulation, feed all of them with cheap goo, and even using their bodies to produce energy, to make it even cheaper.
i.e. while Hollywood had a century showing graphical killing, desmembering, torturing, mutilating, melting, or just cheering mass murdering, hate speech and promoting addictive and nocive substances, they get the approval seal from the state/law/etc (and in a lot of cases, the script gets a little consulting for making the message closer to the current government agenda).
What is the diference between a "real" killing (if you didn't do it, at least) and a fictional one that depicts in a even more gruesome way a real one? Would the director of i.e. the Enola Gay movie be convicted for mass murdering?
You are justifying that the government level your entire neighbourhood (including you, and not deserving people including children) because someone 3 blocks away could know someone that is a suspect? You would describe as peaceful your life if you don't know if next time you cross the street something will fall from the sky killing you or whoever you care about, just because a bearded man near there looked like another in a blurry photo? Maybe is not terrorism only because the word is too weak to describe what is happening there.
That was an accident. this ones were not, and wasnt exactly transporters on the ground. Weddings, schools, sports, funerals and other "suspicious" meetings of people, most civilians, by far, and that in a lot of countries. Yes, there are been a lot of terrorist attacks this last decade. But the head of the organization behind them wasn't hidden in caves or under false names, but sit in the White House.
It could work. Internet is broken as US government decided that noone (at least, non-americans) deserves privacy. Now consider privacy (at least, whatever you in private) as intellectual property, then decide that noone (at least, american) deserves intellectual property, and you will find plenty of corporations forcing US to consider going back in the no privacy idea.
Is not that Windows have a vulnerability, from time to time a vulnerability is found in a lot of systems. The problem is that they didn't fixed, on pourpose, so you can get hacked. That they held that bug since a year ago gives a hint on how safe you should feel with it.
Difference in violence between regions, countries, history periods or isolated events? Even a sport event could be the trigger of a lot of violence, even between otherwise peaceful people, so should be a pretty heavy factor. Unless you assume that the traits are related to skin color or phrenology and culture don't weights a lot on it. And, btw, i using cultural as software, not limiting it to a country, music, or a particular association cultures.
The biggest factor that makes us violent or not is cultural. If you want to fix violence, fix the cultural factors that creates it. Unfortunately, some of those factors are tied to money (i.e. if you live in a culture that teach you from kid about justice and find that the rich are above the law won't make you more peaceful), so won't be fixed.
Lets not fall into the Gambler's fallacy, it don't mean that won't happen next year, and the next after it, or that should happen for sure in the next 700, 1000, or 10000 years. Also, odds of taking a certain, specific path are pretty low, as the odds of hitting a particular point of a dartboard, but that don't mean that no point of the dartboard will be hit, and the same for potential paths of destruction.
If you have internal systems facing the internet where just using the right domain name would unveil what is inside to all the world, the one that "broke it" is you, either by designing "security" that way or choosing vendors that force you to work that way. Depending in the ignorance of the remote side is a bad security measure (or better, is a good insecurity measure).
In fact, probably is good that something makes evident that you have an open insecure system in internet. The bad guys (including NSA and associated companies) are already aware of this, so if something actually forces you to fix it will be something positive (but take a review of those exposed systems, odds that have been exploited in a non immediately obvious way are not low).
As in "against their own population", or "against other countries populations"? US is exporting its repression, control, and snooping all over the world, not just in the country itself. If in a democratic country the government misbehaves, the population could vote against it, rebel, or whatever. What if another country government the one that is misbehaving against you?
What Russia, and the other countries of the UN should do as retaliation is just give back some of what US is doing to the rest of the world. Just consider their citizens privacy as intellectual property, declare that the US, as nation policy, is violating their intellectual property and reject and stop honoring all intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc) of US based companies. And lets see how "safety" deals with "greed" inside US government.
In a country where laws applies in the same way for everyone, that could pass. In US, in the other hand, that now see hacking as mass destruction weapons as they are used and plan to use them in big scale in that way, it will be labeled as terrorist and put you in jail for decades or more... unless you are a big contributor or work for them, in that case it will have no consequences.
California tech industry is a lot about intellectual property.What if the world decide to dismiss US intellectual property because US dismissed the intellectual property of just everyone else?
Yes, thats why killers try to keep their crimes hidden, that could affect their families. Is really unfair that they get caught, why not pretend that nothing happened and let them walk free?
If Bradley Manning wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and Snowden wins the 2014 one it should give a clear message to the US. Anyway, this is happening in Sweden and they are veryfriendly with the NSA, i doubt that it happens.
The U.S. Government decided that intellectual property don't have a meaning anymore as they decided that we don't need to have privacy (we aren't owners of what we produce for ourselves anymore?). So is another corporate leverage tool, not something that we can have. Is just another misplaced title over something that don't have that meaning, like "Department of Justice", to fool you.
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They were your servers before, you had most of the control on them, and their content. Then you had a person acting in an irresponsible, stupid, or criminal way and now that you moved to the magic cloud you think that you are safe from people acting that way, giving total control to a lot of people which any of them could act that way too?
I remember an episode of ST:DS9 (paradise lost, i think) when just 2 "terrorists" that couldn't be found and could be anyone almost turned a government respectful of their citizens into a deep police state, even with the good will of the ones doing it. And in this case we can't assume the good will of everyone in the "law" side.
The problem is that you don't need to have "real" connections to expand the circle of watching a lot. Assumed, misidentified (you know, all those biometric tests that have 90% accuracy of identifying the right person, and 30% of misidentifying the wrong one), that sound alike (i.e. if they are intercepting phone calls of them, and some say something that could sound like your name), contact collectors that like to have thousands of friends in facebook/linkedin/etc and friended you and one of them, or even spammers that send mail using the address of other people.
Think that you are in the open, there is a big electric storm forming, and you don't know if the next random lightning will hit you or someone close to you. And you can't take cover.
How much of those servers (if run Windows, at least) have applied the patches that are not yet available for the normal customers because they are still in the NSA exploit queue?
I.e. if the connection is "read something that a suspect may have posted in a site", we should be all in that list, plus everyone 2 hops away from us.
Maybe the reason is that RIM is in a suicidal rampage, or have been infiltrated like Nokia.
Yeah, i read that discourse somewhere else... If there is a potential cyberweapon that could be used against US, would be advisable to know everything about it. Next thing you know its that CIA is doing the attacks over all the world "just because we can". Oh, there are potential terrorists in that country? lets send a cat 5 hurricane to their capital so they learn, killing hundreds innocent victims. And then if a storm that makes Sandy looks like a breeze hits a big US city as consequence because global climate is interlinked they will just argue that it was done for national security.
No matter what kind of tool you give to them, they see everything as a nail to be hammered.
And while doing that, plug the entire population to that simulation, feed all of them with cheap goo, and even using their bodies to produce energy, to make it even cheaper.
i.e. while Hollywood had a century showing graphical killing, desmembering, torturing, mutilating, melting, or just cheering mass murdering, hate speech and promoting addictive and nocive substances, they get the approval seal from the state/law/etc (and in a lot of cases, the script gets a little consulting for making the message closer to the current government agenda).
What is the diference between a "real" killing (if you didn't do it, at least) and a fictional one that depicts in a even more gruesome way a real one? Would the director of i.e. the Enola Gay movie be convicted for mass murdering?
You are justifying that the government level your entire neighbourhood (including you, and not deserving people including children) because someone 3 blocks away could know someone that is a suspect? You would describe as peaceful your life if you don't know if next time you cross the street something will fall from the sky killing you or whoever you care about, just because a bearded man near there looked like another in a blurry photo? Maybe is not terrorism only because the word is too weak to describe what is happening there.
That was an accident. this ones were not, and wasnt exactly transporters on the ground. Weddings, schools, sports, funerals and other "suspicious" meetings of people, most civilians, by far, and that in a lot of countries. Yes, there are been a lot of terrorist attacks this last decade. But the head of the organization behind them wasn't hidden in caves or under false names, but sit in the White House.
It could work. Internet is broken as US government decided that noone (at least, non-americans) deserves privacy. Now consider privacy (at least, whatever you in private) as intellectual property, then decide that noone (at least, american) deserves intellectual property, and you will find plenty of corporations forcing US to consider going back in the no privacy idea.
Is not that Windows have a vulnerability, from time to time a vulnerability is found in a lot of systems. The problem is that they didn't fixed, on pourpose, so you can get hacked. That they held that bug since a year ago gives a hint on how safe you should feel with it.
Difference in violence between regions, countries, history periods or isolated events? Even a sport event could be the trigger of a lot of violence, even between otherwise peaceful people, so should be a pretty heavy factor. Unless you assume that the traits are related to skin color or phrenology and culture don't weights a lot on it. And, btw, i using cultural as software, not limiting it to a country, music, or a particular association cultures.
The biggest factor that makes us violent or not is cultural. If you want to fix violence, fix the cultural factors that creates it. Unfortunately, some of those factors are tied to money (i.e. if you live in a culture that teach you from kid about justice and find that the rich are above the law won't make you more peaceful), so won't be fixed.
Lets not fall into the Gambler's fallacy, it don't mean that won't happen next year, and the next after it, or that should happen for sure in the next 700, 1000, or 10000 years. Also, odds of taking a certain, specific path are pretty low, as the odds of hitting a particular point of a dartboard, but that don't mean that no point of the dartboard will be hit, and the same for potential paths of destruction.
If you have internal systems facing the internet where just using the right domain name would unveil what is inside to all the world, the one that "broke it" is you, either by designing "security" that way or choosing vendors that force you to work that way. Depending in the ignorance of the remote side is a bad security measure (or better, is a good insecurity measure).
In fact, probably is good that something makes evident that you have an open insecure system in internet. The bad guys (including NSA and associated companies) are already aware of this, so if something actually forces you to fix it will be something positive (but take a review of those exposed systems, odds that have been exploited in a non immediately obvious way are not low).
As in "against their own population", or "against other countries populations"? US is exporting its repression, control, and snooping all over the world, not just in the country itself. If in a democratic country the government misbehaves, the population could vote against it, rebel, or whatever. What if another country government the one that is misbehaving against you?
What Russia, and the other countries of the UN should do as retaliation is just give back some of what US is doing to the rest of the world. Just consider their citizens privacy as intellectual property, declare that the US, as nation policy, is violating their intellectual property and reject and stop honoring all intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc) of US based companies. And lets see how "safety" deals with "greed" inside US government.
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In a country where laws applies in the same way for everyone, that could pass. In US, in the other hand, that now see hacking as mass destruction weapons as they are used and plan to use them in big scale in that way, it will be labeled as terrorist and put you in jail for decades or more... unless you are a big contributor or work for them, in that case it will have no consequences.
California tech industry is a lot about intellectual property.What if the world decide to dismiss US intellectual property because US dismissed the intellectual property of just everyone else?
Yes, thats why killers try to keep their crimes hidden, that could affect their families. Is really unfair that they get caught, why not pretend that nothing happened and let them walk free?
If Bradley Manning wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and Snowden wins the 2014 one it should give a clear message to the US. Anyway, this is happening in Sweden and they are very friendly with the NSA, i doubt that it happens.
Avoiding that the US scales even more and a faster pace its offensive against the entire world could be worthy of the "bringing peace" title.
The U.S. Government decided that intellectual property don't have a meaning anymore as they decided that we don't need to have privacy (we aren't owners of what we produce for ourselves anymore?). So is another corporate leverage tool, not something that we can have. Is just another misplaced title over something that don't have that meaning, like "Department of Justice", to fool you.
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