Is there any way in the USA for the people to legally take back their own government?
Yes, it's called voting. Seriously though, personally I find this as just more evidence that government should be smaller, less powerful, and less intrusive (think libertarian). If there is little power given to the government, then you will reduce corruption, special interests, and lobbyist influences.
With my cross country move the movers took a month to get our stuff there, no joke. Try to move when it's not the busy season (in other words, not during the summer). Our company used Bekins, and it was a miserable experience. They kept moving the date back, only after we were waiting at home all day for the movers to arrive when they said they would. On the plus side, they had a policy of paying like $100 a day for every day they were late after some grace period. They tried to get out of that, but they finally paid up.
There's a difference between security and algorithms. A open source piece of code could be secure, have no bugs or overflows or whatever, but it still reveals the algorithms. We don't want our enemies to know all of our advanced algorithms, no matter how "secure" the code is.
That's the problem with the current legal system. One of the suppositions of the Rule of Law is that everyone should be aware of the laws. There are so many laws, ordinances, regulations, etc. today that it is impossible to know all the ways in which you might be breaking the law.
Case in point: we had a groundhog problem in our backyard. We tried to do the humane thing and buy a "live trap." Well, right away we caught a possum. I was going to release it but then I called the local animal control branch, or whatever it's called. They said that I could get a huge fine for releasing it myself and they had to pick it up. Maybe that's a bad example because I found out what the law was but the point is that we probably all break the law in ways that we're not aware of.
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With my cross country move the movers took a month to get our stuff there, no joke. Try to move when it's not the busy season (in other words, not during the summer). Our company used Bekins, and it was a miserable experience. They kept moving the date back, only after we were waiting at home all day for the movers to arrive when they said they would. On the plus side, they had a policy of paying like $100 a day for every day they were late after some grace period. They tried to get out of that, but they finally paid up.
There's a difference between security and algorithms. A open source piece of code could be secure, have no bugs or overflows or whatever, but it still reveals the algorithms. We don't want our enemies to know all of our advanced algorithms, no matter how "secure" the code is.
That's the problem with the current legal system. One of the suppositions of the Rule of Law is that everyone should be aware of the laws. There are so many laws, ordinances, regulations, etc. today that it is impossible to know all the ways in which you might be breaking the law. Case in point: we had a groundhog problem in our backyard. We tried to do the humane thing and buy a "live trap." Well, right away we caught a possum. I was going to release it but then I called the local animal control branch, or whatever it's called. They said that I could get a huge fine for releasing it myself and they had to pick it up. Maybe that's a bad example because I found out what the law was but the point is that we probably all break the law in ways that we're not aware of.