Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, once remarked: "If I wanted to punish a province, I would give it to philosophers to govern.". Would he be living today, he might have added geeks to his list of pathetic utopians.
What is supposed to be so outrageous about these news? I guess that the media-crazed Ellison is being a bit opportunistic here, but his move will certainly save the CIA and NSA loads of money. Anywhere but in SlashdotLand or the pages of Le Monde, especially since 9-11 has shown us that the NSA isn't so omniscient after all, this would be good news.
Ah, but yes.
Michael and his co-paranoids think that the NSA, CIA and the rest of the "military-industrial complex" have nothing better to do than snooping on their PGP- (oh sorry, GPG-) encrypted mail, or hacking into their computers to scan their porn and mp3 collections for copyright infringements. Ergo, let's abolish the CIA and the NSA!
Don't you guys know that there's a war going on and that the intelligence agencies are actually quite busy now finding and precision-bomb terrorists? And that, if they have some spare time, they might prefer to try to find out what the Chinese, Saudi, or Iraqi governments are up to?
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What is supposed to be so outrageous about these news? I guess that the media-crazed Ellison is being a bit opportunistic here, but his move will certainly save the CIA and NSA loads of money. Anywhere but in SlashdotLand or the pages of Le Monde, especially since 9-11 has shown us that the NSA isn't so omniscient after all, this would be good news.
Ah, but yes.
Michael and his co-paranoids think that the NSA, CIA and the rest of the "military-industrial complex" have nothing better to do than snooping on their PGP- (oh sorry, GPG-) encrypted mail, or hacking into their computers to scan their porn and mp3 collections for copyright infringements. Ergo, let's abolish the CIA and the NSA!
Don't you guys know that there's a war going on and that the intelligence agencies are actually quite busy now finding and precision-bomb terrorists? And that, if they have some spare time, they might prefer to try to find out what the Chinese, Saudi, or Iraqi governments are up to?
Oh well. September 11 didn't changed everything.