Depends on what print screen software you use. Most read the data directly out of the video buffer. It's hard to see how that can be stopped without some drastic hardware and software changes (and breaking compatibility with a lot of existing software).
Pro tip: if the terms and conditions for a piece of software specifically call out that "hackers looking for security issues are not welcome," you can be 100% certain that the software has some serious security issues.
All of the discussions rest on the assumption that the government falls into the class of trustable good guys. Given the widespread and rampant history of abuse the government has regarding these sorts of powers,this is not something that we can just assume to be true.
And no, the requirement to get a warrant does not address the issue.
This is the fundamental debate we need to have before any technological discussion can have any importance. And it is exactly the debate that those in favor of spying are trying their hardest to avoid.
But his allegory is wrong. He could not, in fact, build a perfectly safe city no matter how much like a prison he makes it. And he could not, in fact, build a perfectly secure email system, no matter how disconnected from the net it is.
It's almost as if Comcast doesn't actually want anyone to use their service. It would give them the ability to say "hey, nobody really wants these speeds!"
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This is an excellent reason
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Re: Slaves to the machine...
No more so than now. Before cell phones, people on the bus isolated themselves by reading or listening to music instead of with cell phones.
Nothing has changed.
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Lots already do.
"They see a cop with a gun drawn, they will assume they are about to get shot regardless if they've done anything wrong or not."
Yes, because that's a very reasonable assumption.
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Re: Well he got it half right at least
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Symbolic
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The debate they're avoiding
And no, the requirement to get a warrant does not address the issue.
This is the fundamental debate we need to have before any technological discussion can have any importance. And it is exactly the debate that those in favor of spying are trying their hardest to avoid.
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Re: Required now?
Poitras was the one behaving patriotically. The officials were not.
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It's also impossible.
Every time I've done a check before a move, I discovered later that I was lied to about the available service.
Every. Single. Time.
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Perfect security is an impossibility.
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As if
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