But it's not a coup if we don't call it a coup, and it's not really spying if we're not actually spying. The program is doing the spying... The US government is getting more brazen by the day when it breaks its own laws.
How do these companies arrive at hundreds of million/billion dollars worth of "damages" anyway? Is this using the MPAA/RIAA method of accounting? Do they have to shut down the entire company for a week? Seriously, did absolutely no one make a recent backup of the databases? Do they have to replace all the computer equipment? Are the IT people so expensive? Where does the figure come from?
The other two branches of government always seem to be looking the other way. So it is a de facto dictatorship. Nixon was forced to resign for much, much less than Obama has gotten away with.
US based corporation? You mean the one publicly traded on the stock exchange, with manufacturing facilities in China? The one that ships iPhones and iPads directly from China? Or is it because they have an office in Cupertino that you consider them US based?
I doubt it. Snowden is a trophy for Putin. He's going to stick him on the mantlepiece and show him off every chance he gets. He has immense political value.
To be honest I've always found the British "bobbie" to be reasonable, unlike American trigger-happy cowboys. So long as you don't get in his face and disrespect him in my experience he won't be in a hurry to escalate the situation. Of course I've never participated in a riot.
Oh dear, I'm sure the NSA have never thought of that. I'm more willing to bet they can read even VPN packets than not. I mean when you've got back doors at the OS AND at the hardware level, there's nothing that can get past you. Nothing.
Yeah like that kid in Florida who was a supposed "friend" of the Boston Marathon bombers. He was shot. Accept that he deserved it. He was a bad guy. Blah blah blah. Move on.
Yeah surely no one has thought of that! Oh how did you sign up for that proxy btw? How did they give you the IP? Wait - through the internet? Don't worry, the NSA knows which proxy(ies) you are using too. It's trivial to do when you essentially have ALL the data.
Of course we only have their word for it. And how many of those 58 were instigated by the FBI as traps to try to catch wannabe terrorists who were never a real threat anyway?
The body of the government is ALSO tainted. I know Obama isn't personally wiretapping everyone. But the government as a whole is. And law enforcement is acting on it, 4th amendment be damned. And the courts are looking the other way. What is your point? It's ALL tainted.
Yup. One more lie from Obama, in an ocean of lies. Anyway that's the last time I listen to an American when he starts going on about "freedom and democracy".
No, if you really really want to, you can get the data from the hardware bus. Faster than farting around in someone's obfuscated software That's the way some consoles and blue ray were broken, if I recall. And of course it only takes one person to figure out the algorithm for encryption and publish it, and the lock is broken for everyone on the planet.
Of course I assume that the government is willing to follow its own laws. If the government is willing to act like tyrants and hold property guilty of a crime, there's nothing stopping them from just seizing it anyway, law or no law.
I call BS on the notion that my CPU is smarter than me. Article claims that it takes "hundreds of years" to break this. Obviously then it must take the program "hundreds of years" to run. Otherwise the CPU is using a short-cut. All I have to do is figure out what the short cut is (hint: figure out what the CPU is doing, where it got its instructions from) and it's cracked. If your computer can run it, you can figure it out. It's that simple.
Without considering that a set of shower rings can last 5 years or more... I think this study is obviously bogus. I honestly can't think about any bunch of stand-alone plastic items I spend $2000 on every year.
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But it's not a coup if we don't call it a coup, and it's not really spying if we're not actually spying. The program is doing the spying... The US government is getting more brazen by the day when it breaks its own laws.
How do these companies arrive at hundreds of million/billion dollars worth of "damages" anyway? Is this using the MPAA/RIAA method of accounting? Do they have to shut down the entire company for a week? Seriously, did absolutely no one make a recent backup of the databases? Do they have to replace all the computer equipment? Are the IT people so expensive? Where does the figure come from?
The other two branches of government always seem to be looking the other way. So it is a de facto dictatorship. Nixon was forced to resign for much, much less than Obama has gotten away with.
US based corporation? You mean the one publicly traded on the stock exchange, with manufacturing facilities in China? The one that ships iPhones and iPads directly from China? Or is it because they have an office in Cupertino that you consider them US based?
It can, but only temporarily.
You haven't been reading what Snowden has been releasing, have you?
I doubt it. Snowden is a trophy for Putin. He's going to stick him on the mantlepiece and show him off every chance he gets. He has immense political value.
To be honest I've always found the British "bobbie" to be reasonable, unlike American trigger-happy cowboys. So long as you don't get in his face and disrespect him in my experience he won't be in a hurry to escalate the situation. Of course I've never participated in a riot.
Oh dear, I'm sure the NSA have never thought of that. I'm more willing to bet they can read even VPN packets than not. I mean when you've got back doors at the OS AND at the hardware level, there's nothing that can get past you. Nothing.
It is illegal. But that's not stopping them. That's what happens when the government believes itself to be above the law.
Yeah like that kid in Florida who was a supposed "friend" of the Boston Marathon bombers. He was shot. Accept that he deserved it. He was a bad guy. Blah blah blah. Move on.
Or the transparency he brought to the government was to make your life entirely transparent to the government.
Yeah surely no one has thought of that! Oh how did you sign up for that proxy btw? How did they give you the IP? Wait - through the internet? Don't worry, the NSA knows which proxy(ies) you are using too. It's trivial to do when you essentially have ALL the data.
Yeah, just because they have lied about everything else doesn't mean they're lying about the "300" they "caught", right? Keep the faith. /sarcasm
Of course we only have their word for it. And how many of those 58 were instigated by the FBI as traps to try to catch wannabe terrorists who were never a real threat anyway?
The body of the government is ALSO tainted. I know Obama isn't personally wiretapping everyone. But the government as a whole is. And law enforcement is acting on it, 4th amendment be damned. And the courts are looking the other way. What is your point? It's ALL tainted.
Yup. One more lie from Obama, in an ocean of lies. Anyway that's the last time I listen to an American when he starts going on about "freedom and democracy".
Besides, the NSA is holding all the keys anyway lol.
No, if you really really want to, you can get the data from the hardware bus. Faster than farting around in someone's obfuscated software That's the way some consoles and blue ray were broken, if I recall. And of course it only takes one person to figure out the algorithm for encryption and publish it, and the lock is broken for everyone on the planet.
Of course I assume that the government is willing to follow its own laws. If the government is willing to act like tyrants and hold property guilty of a crime, there's nothing stopping them from just seizing it anyway, law or no law.
I give it a month before someone cracks it.
I call BS on the notion that my CPU is smarter than me. Article claims that it takes "hundreds of years" to break this. Obviously then it must take the program "hundreds of years" to run. Otherwise the CPU is using a short-cut. All I have to do is figure out what the short cut is (hint: figure out what the CPU is doing, where it got its instructions from) and it's cracked. If your computer can run it, you can figure it out. It's that simple.
Yup, it's the basic principle of reverse-engineering anything. If your CPU can read it, then you can read it.
Without considering that a set of shower rings can last 5 years or more... I think this study is obviously bogus. I honestly can't think about any bunch of stand-alone plastic items I spend $2000 on every year.
Not all educated guesses are false.