Not just nothing to lose, when they were in power, they were on the top. No president or chief of staff is ever going to prison. They will never be held accountable in ANY circumstance.
Former ones however.... they are UNDER the law.
You see the same in intelligence communities. While they are in the circles, mass surveillance and warrantless taps are A-OK. Once they become civilians who are subject to laws....suddenly its all overreach.
I think that is why, of all the spying revelations, the one that seemed to make the most waves was spying on Angela Merkel. She isn't some faceless pleb, she is a "real person" that other politicians can't deny and say "it will never be me"
My favorite, with windows, is when you get the system fully installed with all its crap OEM junk, try to rebuild it with a clean install, only to find out nothing in the whole system works without downloading some special snowflake driver.
Hell my recent build and windows install was almost good.... ASROCK had on board utlities to make a usb stick with drivers.
Snag? Oh yah, the drivers they distribute trojan your machine with adware....right out of the box on a fresh build, the fucking motherboard drivers infect you with adware! Windows users have nothing to smug about.
tbh I have been a Linux user far to long to not belly laugh at this.
I have had several machines that were quite effectively "air gapped" by default installs that didn't support the latest whiz-bang onboard network out of the box. Nothing quite like the realization that you need to upgrade your kernel to use the network in order to upgrade your kernel.
In fairness though, I have had it happen on Windows installs as well.
Of course there is a question of what do you count as a "false positive". Every time you make someone toss a box cutter in the trash where you wouldn't have before. Every time you arrest somebody where you would have let it slide before, every time one of those people wasn't a terrorist, that is a false positive. Or at the very least a side effect.
Nothing new there, I remember giving odd looks at mac users who insisted I didn't do enough to fix their 8 year old Mac. You would think they needed me to tell them their own department had money and regularly did ignore IT and buy new Macs and we still couldn't say no to supporting them.
Right but if the house is your chicken coup, and the family is starving because there are no chickens anymore.... whether it was animals who came in through the unlocked door or bad people, either way, youre children are still not eating.
> However, you should be able to leave an admin password posted on a banner on a 24 hr news > station and a good person wouldn't use the password to get in and fuck with a water treatment plant.
You are not wrong but, there is a question of how much of a risk you are taking. Yes nobody SHOULD do it, but, since you know there are some number of people who WILL do things they should not, maybe the person in charge bears some responsibility for not taking more precautions than the honor system?
Its one thing to say "Nobody should steal my gold coin even if I leave it on my front steps for all to see" your right, nobody should.... but if somebody does....the whole community isn't being put in danger by your lack of caution.
That said, I wouldn't be so quick to blame the admin or even the guy who set it up, you don't know what constraints he was under or even what training or tools he had available. This could very well have been screwed all to hell before he even got told to make it work.
Spies do NOTHING to address the underlying causes that make choosing to follow terrorist leaders to ones own death looks reasonable. That is the real problem. Have you ever even taken 2 seconds to imagine yourself growing up under the threat of our bombs? Have you ever pondered what its like to live under the boot of a dictator who was installed and supported by foriegn governments, like ours? Have you ever thought about the generations of bad will we purchased with actions like using and protecting men like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Or Overthrowing democratically elected presidents in favor of a King (what do you think Sha means)?
There are a lot of points of view in this world from which terrorism looks like a not that insane option, especially if someone promises to pay your family. That isn't their fault; a lot of that is our own fault.
Is it really even paranoia? Sure an EMP is very unusual but, we certainly have the ability to make them and there are some rare natural events that could cause similar disruptions; and forget EMP, far more mundane things can happen to remove one from easy access to the comforts we know and love today.
There are a whole host of scenarios that, while each one is of very low probabiliy of happening on any given day....given a time horizen of a few decades, the probability of one of them happening gets pretty high.
Economies crash, natural disasters happen, civilizations crumble. The odds of any one disaster may be low but the odds of some disaster in ones lifetime? Pretty decent overall, especially since it can hit so many at once.
I know, tbh even my most recent motorcycle had fuel injectors.
Though, I do occasionally think there is some benefit to using technology I can reasonably disassemble and troubleshoot. I would rather not do it, but I feel more comfortable rebuilding a carb, though in truth fixing the new car is probably easier...nothing to rebuild, the equivalent job is done by parts that you would just junk and replace rather than clean or repair.
There is a great quote often mis-attributed to Churchhill: "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
I think we have nearly 180 degrees of daylight in between our current policy and isolationaism.
I would describe our current policy as one of corporate profit driven interventionism. How much of our foriegn policy in the middle east for the past half century has been anything other than the United States getting embroiled in the business interests of the Bush family and their cronies? Little Bandar hardly started it, his Daddy had been doing it since his CIA days.
Shit, Iran had a democratic government, who fucked that up? Isreal is an undeclared nuclear power, who just lets them slide on that?
Fuck, I am an atheist and if I lived over there I would probably happily help some religious nut blow something up. Why the fuck not? We have an external enemy, thats how it fucking works. Our companies piss them off, we help align their interests....then we go blow them up. The companies sell us the guns...and everybody with shares and jobs is happy.
Its not making us safer, its manufacturing enemies.
This sounds like it could be beneficial in many areas of signal transmission. I feel it should be opened to the public.
The last thing we need is more military capability. In fact, what we really need is more technically capable adversaries to keep us in check and raise the real cost of us going to war to untenable levels.
So the real answer is ALL of our defense research should be opened to all of mankind. Every last page of it. I would LOVE to see this technology used in commercial drones, in the hands of the public.
Sure our one sided profit-minded foriegn policy for the past half century has created a number of enemies and caused many of them to band together behind all manner of scary banners. They will continue to do this and continue to make new scary banners as long as we continue to provoke them.
The only reason they do it can be seen as easily as the yellow fluid that pours down your leg every time they go "boo".
I already have imagined it, and I find the concept so abohorent that its reason enough to tear the flag down and burn the pentagon to the ground before it happens.
Well, my solution would start by the complete abandonment of your medieval simplistic assessment of a large section of the human population as guided by nothing more than blind superstition.
This is not even CLOSE to an accurate description of ANY real issue. In fact, your cowboyism serves to do nothing but rally people behind such polarizing and simplistic views that serve as little more than an excuse to continue the carnage.
> No, the last thing we need is people who think you should die for expressing your opinion having greater military capability....like this REDUCE what we have to spend and deploy in any given scenario
The second part seems counterproductive to the first.
There is no military solution here, all you do by making the use of force easier is make it easier for our for profit military industry to create more enemies in their desire for endless war.
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Irrelevant to 99.999% of people who buy burner phones because it is their easiest solution for privacy that requires 0 technical knowledge.
Not just nothing to lose, when they were in power, they were on the top. No president or chief of staff is ever going to prison. They will never be held accountable in ANY circumstance.
Former ones however.... they are UNDER the law.
You see the same in intelligence communities. While they are in the circles, mass surveillance and warrantless taps are A-OK. Once they become civilians who are subject to laws....suddenly its all overreach.
I think that is why, of all the spying revelations, the one that seemed to make the most waves was spying on Angela Merkel. She isn't some faceless pleb, she is a "real person" that other politicians can't deny and say "it will never be me"
My favorite, with windows, is when you get the system fully installed with all its crap OEM junk, try to rebuild it with a clean install, only to find out nothing in the whole system works without downloading some special snowflake driver.
Hell my recent build and windows install was almost good.... ASROCK had on board utlities to make a usb stick with drivers.
Snag? Oh yah, the drivers they distribute trojan your machine with adware....right out of the box on a fresh build, the fucking motherboard drivers infect you with adware! Windows users have nothing to smug about.
tbh I have been a Linux user far to long to not belly laugh at this.
I have had several machines that were quite effectively "air gapped" by default installs that didn't support the latest whiz-bang onboard network out of the box. Nothing quite like the realization that you need to upgrade your kernel to use the network in order to upgrade your kernel.
In fairness though, I have had it happen on Windows installs as well.
Of course there is a question of what do you count as a "false positive". Every time you make someone toss a box cutter in the trash where you wouldn't have before. Every time you arrest somebody where you would have let it slide before, every time one of those people wasn't a terrorist, that is a false positive. Or at the very least a side effect.
Nothing new there, I remember giving odd looks at mac users who insisted I didn't do enough to fix their 8 year old Mac. You would think they needed me to tell them their own department had money and regularly did ignore IT and buy new Macs and we still couldn't say no to supporting them.
"Yes, we understand your concerns but sales already told them we could make this work."
Right but if the house is your chicken coup, and the family is starving because there are no chickens anymore.... whether it was animals who came in through the unlocked door or bad people, either way, youre children are still not eating.
> However, you should be able to leave an admin password posted on a banner on a 24 hr news
> station and a good person wouldn't use the password to get in and fuck with a water treatment plant.
You are not wrong but, there is a question of how much of a risk you are taking. Yes nobody SHOULD do it, but, since you know there are some number of people who WILL do things they should not, maybe the person in charge bears some responsibility for not taking more precautions than the honor system?
Its one thing to say "Nobody should steal my gold coin even if I leave it on my front steps for all to see" your right, nobody should.... but if somebody does....the whole community isn't being put in danger by your lack of caution.
That said, I wouldn't be so quick to blame the admin or even the guy who set it up, you don't know what constraints he was under or even what training or tools he had available. This could very well have been screwed all to hell before he even got told to make it work.
At BEST they are playing whack a mole with spies.
Spies do NOTHING to address the underlying causes that make choosing to follow terrorist leaders to ones own death looks reasonable. That is the real problem. Have you ever even taken 2 seconds to imagine yourself growing up under the threat of our bombs? Have you ever pondered what its like to live under the boot of a dictator who was installed and supported by foriegn governments, like ours? Have you ever thought about the generations of bad will we purchased with actions like using and protecting men like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Or Overthrowing democratically elected presidents in favor of a King (what do you think Sha means)?
There are a lot of points of view in this world from which terrorism looks like a not that insane option, especially if someone promises to pay your family. That isn't their fault; a lot of that is our own fault.
Is it really even paranoia? Sure an EMP is very unusual but, we certainly have the ability to make them and there are some rare natural events that could cause similar disruptions; and forget EMP, far more mundane things can happen to remove one from easy access to the comforts we know and love today.
There are a whole host of scenarios that, while each one is of very low probabiliy of happening on any given day....given a time horizen of a few decades, the probability of one of them happening gets pretty high.
Economies crash, natural disasters happen, civilizations crumble. The odds of any one disaster may be low but the odds of some disaster in ones lifetime? Pretty decent overall, especially since it can hit so many at once.
I know, tbh even my most recent motorcycle had fuel injectors.
Though, I do occasionally think there is some benefit to using technology I can reasonably disassemble and troubleshoot. I would rather not do it, but I feel more comfortable rebuilding a carb, though in truth fixing the new car is probably easier...nothing to rebuild, the equivalent job is done by parts that you would just junk and replace rather than clean or repair.
Suddenly.... having to replace your points occasionally or clean out a needle valve is looking quite attractive isn't it?
Do you just hear a "woosh" sound all day long?
Clearly step one. Encrypt them, and I assume you can store a good key somehow in a way that you have no worry of ever losing control of it.
Then simply file for some government program where all applications are public record and attach the encrypted file to the document.
Presto, free storage and easy retrieval. It worked for leaking Scientology Documents, it can work for you too!
Or, "Never trust anyone over 30" :)
There is a great quote often mis-attributed to Churchhill:
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
I think we have nearly 180 degrees of daylight in between our current policy and isolationaism.
I would describe our current policy as one of corporate profit driven interventionism. How much of our foriegn policy in the middle east for the past half century has been anything other than the United States getting embroiled in the business interests of the Bush family and their cronies? Little Bandar hardly started it, his Daddy had been doing it since his CIA days.
Shit, Iran had a democratic government, who fucked that up? Isreal is an undeclared nuclear power, who just lets them slide on that?
Fuck, I am an atheist and if I lived over there I would probably happily help some religious nut blow something up. Why the fuck not? We have an external enemy, thats how it fucking works. Our companies piss them off, we help align their interests....then we go blow them up. The companies sell us the guns...and everybody with shares and jobs is happy.
Its not making us safer, its manufacturing enemies.
This sounds like it could be beneficial in many areas of signal transmission. I feel it should be opened to the public.
The last thing we need is more military capability. In fact, what we really need is more technically capable adversaries to keep us in check and raise the real cost of us going to war to untenable levels.
So the real answer is ALL of our defense research should be opened to all of mankind. Every last page of it. I would LOVE to see this technology used in commercial drones, in the hands of the public.
Or maybe its bumper to bumper traffic and he likes sitting in air conditioning. I would be in the car with him.
Funny, I have some bitcoins and yet, I don't feel any loss here. Microsoft had a store? Really?
Other than OEM versions of the OS that many games insist I run, what would I ever give them money for?
Sure our one sided profit-minded foriegn policy for the past half century has created a number of enemies and caused many of them to band together behind all manner of scary banners. They will continue to do this and continue to make new scary banners as long as we continue to provoke them.
The only reason they do it can be seen as easily as the yellow fluid that pours down your leg every time they go "boo".
> Annnd, you're on some list somewhere now.
Like that is new.
I already have imagined it, and I find the concept so abohorent that its reason enough to tear the flag down and burn the pentagon to the ground before it happens.
Well, my solution would start by the complete abandonment of your medieval simplistic assessment of a large section of the human population as guided by nothing more than blind superstition.
This is not even CLOSE to an accurate description of ANY real issue. In fact, your cowboyism serves to do nothing but rally people behind such polarizing and simplistic views that serve as little more than an excuse to continue the carnage.
> No, the last thing we need is people who think you should die for expressing your opinion having greater military capability....like this REDUCE what we have to spend and deploy in any given scenario
The second part seems counterproductive to the first.
There is no military solution here, all you do by making the use of force easier is make it easier for our for profit military industry to create more enemies in their desire for endless war.