This isn't just about legal or illegal issues. Powerful people use the technology at their disposal to gain more power. I wouldn't care so much about all of this if the FBI, CIA and NSA didn't have such a terrible history of setting their own agenda through surveillence.
This isn't about crime. These agencies watch all political activists and activities. We do not live in a healthy democracy where dissenting from the government's opinion is always accepted.
Kevin Mitnick? Mumia Abu-Jamal? Watergate? Leonard Peltier?
Where have you been man? The people who run these 3-letter organizationz have their own agenda and they stick to it at a cost of our freedom.
For me, Wired died a long time ago. I remember seeing my first issue alongside Mondo2000 at an underground bookstore 6 or 7 years ago. Both magazines blew me away and I would wait anxiously for the next issue. There was just so much weird stuff in both of them, and yet somehow it all seemed to relate. Lately, whenever I see a Wired for sale somewhere I can't help but vomit. Just look at the latest issue "Generation Equity: Kids who have stock options and too much $$$". When did everything become about money? I want to see an article on purple toast eating moon men who surf the web while sitting in an orgasmatron. That's the kind of stuff that used to be in W1red.
I once had a client who wanted to learn more about technical issues so he could talk to us techies building his E-Store. He went out and bought a copy of every computer mag at Walden books. He musta spent $300. The next day I saw him reading Wired and I asked him what he thought of it. "I don't know man, these guys do LSD and stuff, they're weird?" he said.
Now I have a third reason that Linux will not beat W2K, which is the obsessively anti-Windows, toxically anti- Microsoft, sometimes anti-capitalism, often anti-American, and always antisocial flaming that passes for discourse around the Open Source Initiative.
Is this Bob MetCalfe or Senator Bob McCarthy? Didn't the word anti-American die out in the late 50's. Part of being American is being anti-American. There can be no evolution without revolution.
Maybe Linux and OSS is a revolution of some sorts? A revolution that some people find threatening because it forces them to reevaluate how they view capitilism and the marketplace.
The only reason the US Intelligence community cares about encryption so much is because of Echelon. Echelon works in real time and the NSA has a finite amount of 'puter resources to throw at data interception. The feds need to insure that people don't use too strong of an encryption because then Echelon couldn't handle it. The NSA listens in to everything that enters or leaves the USA and the EU. If you don't believe me check out this link to an EU site.
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What if it's a Transmeta chip?
This isn't just about legal or illegal issues.
Powerful people use the technology at their
disposal to gain more power. I wouldn't care
so much about all of this if the FBI, CIA and NSA
didn't have such a terrible history of setting
their own agenda through surveillence.
This isn't about crime. These agencies watch all
political activists and activities. We do not
live in a healthy democracy where dissenting from
the government's opinion is always accepted.
Kevin Mitnick?
Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Watergate?
Leonard Peltier?
Where have you been man?
The people who run these 3-letter organizationz
have their own agenda and they stick to it at a
cost of our freedom.
For me, Wired died a long time ago. I remember seeing my first issue alongside Mondo2000 at an underground bookstore 6 or 7 years ago. Both magazines blew me away and I would wait anxiously for the next issue. There was just so much weird stuff in both of them, and yet somehow it all seemed to relate.
Lately, whenever I see a Wired for sale somewhere I can't help but vomit. Just look at the latest issue "Generation Equity: Kids who have stock options and too much $$$". When did everything become about money? I want to see an article on purple toast eating moon men who surf the web while sitting in an orgasmatron. That's the kind of stuff that used to be in W1red.
I once had a client who wanted to learn more about technical issues so he could talk to us techies building his E-Store. He went out and bought a copy of every computer mag at Walden books. He musta spent $300.
The next day I saw him reading Wired and I asked him what he thought of it.
"I don't know man, these guys do LSD and stuff, they're weird?" he said.
Hell yes they do LSD, or at least they used to.
Now I have a third reason that Linux will not beat W2K, which is the obsessively anti-Windows, toxically anti- Microsoft, sometimes anti-capitalism, often anti-American, and always antisocial flaming that passes for discourse around the Open Source Initiative.
Is this Bob MetCalfe or Senator Bob McCarthy?
Didn't the word anti-American die out in the late
50's.
Part of being American is being anti-American.
There can be no evolution without revolution.
Maybe Linux and OSS is a revolution of some sorts?
A revolution that some people find threatening because it forces them to reevaluate how they
view capitilism and the marketplace.
The only reason the US Intelligence community cares about encryption so much is because of Echelon. Echelon works in real time and the NSA has a finite amount of 'puter resources to throw at data interception. The feds need to insure that people don't use too strong of an encryption because then Echelon couldn't handle it. The NSA listens in to everything that enters or leaves the USA and the EU. If you don't believe me check out this link to an EU site.