Sadly 9/11 was not just a tragic day because of the loss of many lives but also the losses of our civil liberties. Before 9/11, the government was trying to justify the use of warrant less wiretapping to catch drug dealers and I believe even had a system called Carnivore that was designed to go after criminals such as drug dealers but was challenged by civil rights groups as unconstitutional. With the 9/11 attacks, warrant less wiretapping was deemed as necessary for this new "war on terror" and people were sold on the idea that the Patriot Act is to protect them from terrorists but in reality it set the stage for widespread surveillance of US Citizens who are not terrorist threats to our nation. Then we were sold the BS that the TSA was necessary to prevent hijackings even though our security could have detected the box cutters used by terrorists providing they weren't legal prior to 9/11 which in fact they were and if they caught someone with box cutters prior to 9/11 as long as their blade was not longer than a few inches they were legal. Terrorist attacks on US soil have been rare and still are rare and this isn't because of the TSA, the DHS, or any other federal agency spying on us. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than become a victim of a terrorist attack but we justify the investment of billions and have lost our Constitutional rights as a result of 9/11 to protect us from these rare attacks. In addition, the widespread surveillance from the Patriot Act and the invasive procedures by the TSA cannot prevent terrorist attacks by a determined terrorist.
Not sure you want to consult with Yahoo for any important work.
"For me, I would have approached the folks who built my bank’s or credit card’s website or Google or Yahoo for the job. Instead, it was government as usual and making sure the connections get greased and the campaign coffers filled. "
I'm not so sure you would want to have Yahoo working on such an important project with the bugs in their new Yahoo interface that has resulted in long time Yahoo customers closing their accounts. They are still working out the kinks but before I canceled, my account was broken into even though I have a strong password and most likely was compromised as a result of a cross scripting or SQL injection attack. They tried to fix what wasn't broken replacing it with a buggy interface that is as slow as molasses and removed things that a lot people found useful but they decided in the new implementation to remove.
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Not sure you want to consult with Yahoo for any important work.
I'm not so sure you would want to have Yahoo working on such an important project with the bugs in their new Yahoo interface that has resulted in long time Yahoo customers closing their accounts. They are still working out the kinks but before I canceled, my account was broken into even though I have a strong password and most likely was compromised as a result of a cross scripting or SQL injection attack. They tried to fix what wasn't broken replacing it with a buggy interface that is as slow as molasses and removed things that a lot people found useful but they decided in the new implementation to remove.
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