Until the American people set the world lead and end the war on drugs altogether, we can all expect this violent and criminal activity of the police and courts to escalate well beyond its current "militarized cops VS the unarmed public" reality.
Drugs are a medical situation, not a criminal situation.
The very reason that the cops are using asset forfeiture, military gear, no knock warrants and swat team mentality is due entirely to the stupid idea that you can treat drug use as a criminal problem.
End the war on drugs today and you will rob the mob and the cops, lawyers, judges and politicians on the mob's payroll, of billions of dollars a year, and might even return a modicum of honesty and public service to law enforcement.
"You're claiming that each Netflix title has a unique length, and that ISPs know exactly how long each title is? How do they have this information..."
Actually, the lengths of movies in hundredths of a second is very likely different for almost every movie, even if they are all, generally speaking, one and a half hours long.
If he is talking about the movie's "exact" duration, from start to finish, I would think that this information would be readily available to anyone who is hosting those movies in file form and has software that can measure the exact length of each - something I would assume is available to anyone like Netflix who has to know such time lengths in order to do broadcast scheduling.
I would also assume that entities such as Netflix would also own software that could add or subtract a few hundred milliseconds to the length of any movie they were hosting, or speed up/slow down the movie's running speed.
I think it was just mentioned here on Techdirt recently, that some Legacy Networks have considered speeding movies up in order to insert more commercials, so such time control is obvious possible.
While I doubt that Netflix does any of these things, I do not see any of it as being technically difficult to accomplish, or implement as an automatic process.
I am curious as to why you consider this sort of simple measurement and length comparison to be technically difficult.
Please note I am not agreeing with the poster that Netflix or anyone else does these things - just disagreeing with your apparent claim that many or most movies are the exact same length and that automated measurement comparison would be difficult to implement by entities such as Netflix.
"What most people don't remember, because it wasn't in the video, is what happened before that. The video didn't show the way he led police on a high-speed chase, putting the lives of everyone around them in danger, while drunk. The video doesn't show the way he acted like he was under the influence of worse stuff than alcohol once the police finally pulled him over. The video doesn't show the way he managed to fight off four police officers attempting to restrain him."
Please explain how you know all of the above to be absolutely true, if there is no video evidence of any of it.
Were you there?
Are you one of those cops?
Or, are you simply saying that in your mind - because the police claim these things to be true - then they are undeniably and absolutely true - no evidence needed?
Re: Re: Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
Ah too true.
Alcohol will dull the feel of steel and allow the villain to do the deeds and forget the details.
However, a minion must consider that his employer might call upon him at any time and demand service.
The Fascist Employer will always see alcohol or drugs as a weakness that might lead that minion to tell tales while under the influence, so a set of transferrable morals, flexible principles and malleable honor are necessary gear for the successful minion in today's cut throat world domination business.
After all, there are a million other minions waiting at the door seeking his job and even the tiniest visible weakness could mean the loss of the two things he holds truly dear.
Money and the belief that he is on the winning side.
The real problem with politics is that it is the opposite of what it appears to be.
It is a social system mechanism designed specifically to insure the ease of maintenance, control and exploitation of the larger poor labor pool population by the smaller population of wealthier people who control the national social infrastructure and the various operations that employ the poor.
It is the Custom of a civilization, that its Poor are the Customers of its Rich.
The movie; "Gangs of New York" is an excellent description of how governments form and why.
As long as people believe the myths, and ignore what is happening right in front of them, government and the parasites that own it, will thrive and human evolution will not.
Considering the ease which government affords the wealthy to corral, cajole, and control human populations, the only real recourse from this eternal social trap is, and always has been apparently, to "Get Rich Or Die Trying".
There is, and always has been, a subset of humans who literally thrive on dangerous adventures - from simply having sex in the subway, to explorers of the unknown places of earth and beyond, to undercover drug agents and government spies, to LRP soldiers.
Most of these "occupations" necessitate either pre-existing wealth, such as "explorers of the unknown" like the archeological forerunners, the Antiquarians - or a high level of training and support infrastructure such as astronauts, federal spies and law enforcement undercover agents.
Whistleblowing is however a unique exception, as all it really takes is insider information, and in today's Corporate Controlled Civilization, everything depends on the loyalty of the myriad wage-earning minions necessary to keep the wheels of Global exploitation and misinformation turning.
Because the "system" depends on the hired Minions knowing what each of them must know in order to do their part in the Fascist liquidation scheme, every minion is also a weak link in the chain and a potential Whistleblower.
Of all the many ways that a citizen can attain notoriety, few offer the huge public appreciation available to those who take the incredibly moral path of the whistleblower, who places the public good above his own existence.
As the power of the Fascist state increases, so too will the threat of exposure by insider employees, and thus the punishment for such turncoat employees will eventually reach a "shoot on sight" level, as more and more of these danger seeking citizens choose to do the "right" thing and expose the corruption and crime of their employers.
Eventually, the public will also create a new "underground railway" to aid the whistleblowers both in their material expose of their employers' crimes, and in their security against the forces of fascist government businessmen. This process has already begun due to the severe treatment of whistleblowers like Ms. Manning and Snowden, by the Pseudo-Democratic, Wall Street Administration of Barrack Obama.
Eventually, the public - armed with the knowledge of their tormentors agenda, garnered and disseminated by whistleblowers - will revolt against the ever increasing totalitarianism of the Fascist state, or the Fascist Billionaires will simply finish liquidating the nation's wealth and move on to other nations, like a human plague, leaving the husk of America to rot in the sun.
Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
"...but I do wonder how he reconciles the fact that he sold out his principles"
Easy. He did not sell out his principles.
He keeps them in a suitcase in the closet at home, so he can properly utilize whatever set of principles his current employers might deem suitable, without conflict.
In this way, he can, when necessary, retrieve his old principles quickly for such things as interviews, public discussions and TV photo-ops.
In the world of big business, this is called "Principle Flexibility".
Without it, one cannot possibly work for the Dark Side, without incurring the debilitating side effects of conscience, remorse and guilt.
As these side effects tend to degrade the ability to do what "must be done, regardless", and thus reap the maximum rewards from the Dark Side, a portable set of principles is an absolute necessity for all successful minions to develop and maintain.
Revolution is, after all, the motion of a point on a turning wheel, which always ends up in exactly the same place it started from, no matter how often or how fast the wheel spins.
Perhaps the S. E. Army with an army of foreign fascist billionaire backers, total immunity from world law enforcement consequences, and the largest arsenal of electronic hacking hard&software on earth, might be a better measure.
I like to think of the CIAF BINSADEA as the Electronic MAFIA on Steroids.
Looks to me like they just provided an excellent list of people that the UK public should do its level best to eliminate from the court system, ASAP.
Wanna bet a quick peek into the past of these judges would reveal that they did NOT willingly withdraw from other far more serious situations, during their careers, and that this was nothing more than them sending the US a simple message - "We're still on your side USA" - but which looks a lot more like "We're still on your payroll, USA."
Re: with respect to degree of tyranny and state controlled culture
I think the really important lesson here is in the response by the public - or rather the near complete lack of response.
If you ever wondered how the German Corporate Party could have risen from German politics to rule the country and try and rule the world, the situation in America is an excellent petri dish example of just how much the public can be fooled and kept in a state of blissful ignorance, by a corporate controlled government bent on profit and social engineering.
And the Pretend National Socialist Party; the German Fascists, had nothing like the technology and capital now available to the American Billionaires Club, so the chances of America pulling its ashes out of the fire before insolvency, is remote.
I would estimate not one in a ten thousand Americans can read the writing on the wall - or rather, wants to read the writing on the wall - and probably less than 1% of those willing to read that writing, actually comprehend what is taking place, or how their American Dream has been legally re-assigned for the Rich - and in many cases Non-Americans - only.
Its a lesson that humans seem to never learn, and likely the most important lesson that civilization offers.
Even here on TechDirt, I can see this unwillingness to accept the reality that stares America in the face.
Only weeks ago, the head of the NSA admitted to being allowed to rewrite the Constitution due to 9/11, yet everyone keeps stating how nearly every action by police, and by all government agents, that enters the discussion arena here is contrary to the Constitution.
It appears that absolutely no-one is willing to believe that the US constitution has been rewritten and that what it once stood for has been altered completely - even after the deed has been admitted to, or perhaps I should say, bragged about.
Fascism is always a winning business model, but only for the players and the whole scheme depends entirely on the unwillingness of the victims to admit that their leaders are leading them into the ovens.
The public, especially one that reveres its own cultural mythology, such as Americans do, is like the frog in the pot of ever hotter water, who never moves and eventually dies without a clue that it was in danger.
I can't see the American Public faring any better than every other nation that has collapsed due to the misinformation, cronyism and economic liquidation of fascism.
However, the members of the American Billionaires Club, very likely stand to pull of the greatest heist and win the biggest haul in the history of the human race.
Fudd's first law - what goes in, must come out....
Hmmmmm..... the Fascist Billionaire's Club needs a replacement puppet for the outgoing Obama, and they need something that won't look like a republican - and a female would be perfect since everyone knows that the misogynist, racist republicans they pretend to be, would never field a woman for prez, and they already used up the usefulness of the black ticket anyways... so the only thing better than a woman candidate would of course be a black woman candidate - but methinks they're saving that for the next Prezidenshul Selection.
They have all the moron candidates lined up - the ones that nobody in their right mind would vote for, like the Corporate Bimbo-4-hire Hillary - leaving the ticket open for the only "Sane Choice", which is just someone nobody knows much about and whose past can be whitewashed by the corporate media prior to insertion into the Offal Orifice....
They need a relatively unknown female candidate to replace the exiting relatively unknown black puppet....
Could this be the new Corporate President of the United Stakeholders of Ameri Co......
Actually, it appears as though there already are lots and lots of people taking to the streets.
Its just that nobody knows it because Americans still generally get their news from the TV and the TV is now a USG propaganda tool that never mentions protests that don't aid its agenda.
If the CIAFBINSA does NOT raise the roof with their tantrums decrying HTTPS to be the End of the World and the inevitable cause of the Deaths of a Million Babies a Day, then we can be absolutely certain HTTPS has been fully compromised and is an open book to the USG and its minions.
Sometimes, you just have to love how reality works.
On the one hand, we have the Spy Agencies and Corporations of America doing their criminal best to destroy encryption and weaken security world wide, just so they can read everyone's communications and use the information for blackmail, crowd control and advertising.
The American public, utterly deprived of a voice in this matter - and most other matters as well - can do nothing to stop the runaway USG and the MAFIA run American Fascist Billionaire Club from doing whatever they damn well please, because the new secret interpretations of the old laws and the constitution, as well as the newly established corporate exploitation and public surveillance laws of the land of the free, allow both the USG and the Mob to do as they please, legally.
And then along comes China - the most backwards-leading country on earth, desperately trying to destroy the influence of western culture, which they believe is making profit difficult for their own billionaires - oops - I meant that they believe is turning their own peasants into freedom fighters.... er... I mean that they think is ruining the moral fiber of the Honorable Chinese People.... and the Chinese Government is doing everything it can to utilize US technology and the USG built backdoor insecurity system to prove to the US public that Obama's threat of Cyber Terrorists attacking US systems is real, but really just showing the US public how insecure their communications has become under the control of Corporate America and the USG's Spy apparatus.
Its like a poorly written soap opera, using B-grade actors, in which the writers never bothered to even consider adding a good guy hero to save the day and with the Mob inserting a three minute commercial every three minutes, selling shit as new and improved shinola.
Yep. Civilization. Adulthood. Honor. Honesty. Morality. Truth. You've really got to love those popular human myths we keep bragging about having. Too bad they're not really available any more - except as ideals - in the Land of the Unfree.
I've often wondered how difficult it would be for the CIAFBINSA to infiltrate Anonymous and create their own cell made up of agents who posed as wannabe Anonymous kids until they were accepted by the Anonymous Crowd.
After all, it has been the standard operating procedure of the Feds to infiltrate every organization that threatens their bottom line, their national dominance, or competes with their organized crime friends' contraband businesses.
Look what they did to NORML. Half a century of collecting money for pot legalization and they failed to do anything but make the criminal punishment for pot bigger and bigger and the laws harsher and harsher.
And all this recent scuttle-butt about decriminalization is due far more to states being nearly broke and seeing pot as a sure-fire way back to solvency, than it does with anything NORML managed to do in all those decades with all that citizen-donated wealth.
NORML had to be fully under Federal dominance and control, like just about any organization that runs contrary to the Fed's agenda.
On the post: A Residence With Locking Doors And A Working Toilet Is All That's Needed To Justify A No-Knock Warrant
They don't call it a WAR on drugs for nothing...
Drugs are a medical situation, not a criminal situation.
The very reason that the cops are using asset forfeiture, military gear, no knock warrants and swat team mentality is due entirely to the stupid idea that you can treat drug use as a criminal problem.
End the war on drugs today and you will rob the mob and the cops, lawyers, judges and politicians on the mob's payroll, of billions of dollars a year, and might even return a modicum of honesty and public service to law enforcement.
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On the post: Netflix Moving To Encrypted Streams, As Mozilla Moves To Deprecate Unencrypted Web Pages As Insecure
Re: Re:
Actually, the lengths of movies in hundredths of a second is very likely different for almost every movie, even if they are all, generally speaking, one and a half hours long.
If he is talking about the movie's "exact" duration, from start to finish, I would think that this information would be readily available to anyone who is hosting those movies in file form and has software that can measure the exact length of each - something I would assume is available to anyone like Netflix who has to know such time lengths in order to do broadcast scheduling.
I would also assume that entities such as Netflix would also own software that could add or subtract a few hundred milliseconds to the length of any movie they were hosting, or speed up/slow down the movie's running speed.
I think it was just mentioned here on Techdirt recently, that some Legacy Networks have considered speeding movies up in order to insert more commercials, so such time control is obvious possible.
While I doubt that Netflix does any of these things, I do not see any of it as being technically difficult to accomplish, or implement as an automatic process.
I am curious as to why you consider this sort of simple measurement and length comparison to be technically difficult.
Please note I am not agreeing with the poster that Netflix or anyone else does these things - just disagreeing with your apparent claim that many or most movies are the exact same length and that automated measurement comparison would be difficult to implement by entities such as Netflix.
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On the post: UK Judges Take Their Robes And Go Home After Julian Assange Added As Speaker At Legal Conference
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Please explain how you know all of the above to be absolutely true, if there is no video evidence of any of it.
Were you there?
Are you one of those cops?
Or, are you simply saying that in your mind - because the police claim these things to be true - then they are undeniably and absolutely true - no evidence needed?
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On the post: Chris Dodd Implies US Gov't Should Go After Wikileaks For Publishing Leaked Sony Emails
Re: Re: Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
Alcohol will dull the feel of steel and allow the villain to do the deeds and forget the details.
However, a minion must consider that his employer might call upon him at any time and demand service.
The Fascist Employer will always see alcohol or drugs as a weakness that might lead that minion to tell tales while under the influence, so a set of transferrable morals, flexible principles and malleable honor are necessary gear for the successful minion in today's cut throat world domination business.
After all, there are a million other minions waiting at the door seeking his job and even the tiniest visible weakness could mean the loss of the two things he holds truly dear.
Money and the belief that he is on the winning side.
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On the post: ALEC Threatens To Sue Critics That Point Out It Helps Keep Broadband Uncompetitive
Today the USA - Tomorrow, the World.
Aint progress a bitch. :)
On the post: Report: 'Nearly Every' FBI Forensics Expert Gave Flawed Testimony In 'Almost All Trials' Over A 20-Year Period
The Great Deception
It is a social system mechanism designed specifically to insure the ease of maintenance, control and exploitation of the larger poor labor pool population by the smaller population of wealthier people who control the national social infrastructure and the various operations that employ the poor.
It is the Custom of a civilization, that its Poor are the Customers of its Rich.
The movie; "Gangs of New York" is an excellent description of how governments form and why.
As long as people believe the myths, and ignore what is happening right in front of them, government and the parasites that own it, will thrive and human evolution will not.
Considering the ease which government affords the wealthy to corral, cajole, and control human populations, the only real recourse from this eternal social trap is, and always has been apparently, to "Get Rich Or Die Trying".
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On the post: Welcome To The New League Of Leakers -- Courtesy Of Edward Snowden
May your children live in interesting times.
There is, and always has been, a subset of humans who literally thrive on dangerous adventures - from simply having sex in the subway, to explorers of the unknown places of earth and beyond, to undercover drug agents and government spies, to LRP soldiers.
Most of these "occupations" necessitate either pre-existing wealth, such as "explorers of the unknown" like the archeological forerunners, the Antiquarians - or a high level of training and support infrastructure such as astronauts, federal spies and law enforcement undercover agents.
Whistleblowing is however a unique exception, as all it really takes is insider information, and in today's Corporate Controlled Civilization, everything depends on the loyalty of the myriad wage-earning minions necessary to keep the wheels of Global exploitation and misinformation turning.
Because the "system" depends on the hired Minions knowing what each of them must know in order to do their part in the Fascist liquidation scheme, every minion is also a weak link in the chain and a potential Whistleblower.
Of all the many ways that a citizen can attain notoriety, few offer the huge public appreciation available to those who take the incredibly moral path of the whistleblower, who places the public good above his own existence.
As the power of the Fascist state increases, so too will the threat of exposure by insider employees, and thus the punishment for such turncoat employees will eventually reach a "shoot on sight" level, as more and more of these danger seeking citizens choose to do the "right" thing and expose the corruption and crime of their employers.
Eventually, the public will also create a new "underground railway" to aid the whistleblowers both in their material expose of their employers' crimes, and in their security against the forces of fascist government businessmen. This process has already begun due to the severe treatment of whistleblowers like Ms. Manning and Snowden, by the Pseudo-Democratic, Wall Street Administration of Barrack Obama.
Eventually, the public - armed with the knowledge of their tormentors agenda, garnered and disseminated by whistleblowers - will revolt against the ever increasing totalitarianism of the Fascist state, or the Fascist Billionaires will simply finish liquidating the nation's wealth and move on to other nations, like a human plague, leaving the husk of America to rot in the sun.
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Nothing personal you understand. Its just business.
Easy. He did not sell out his principles.
He keeps them in a suitcase in the closet at home, so he can properly utilize whatever set of principles his current employers might deem suitable, without conflict.
In this way, he can, when necessary, retrieve his old principles quickly for such things as interviews, public discussions and TV photo-ops.
In the world of big business, this is called "Principle Flexibility".
Without it, one cannot possibly work for the Dark Side, without incurring the debilitating side effects of conscience, remorse and guilt.
As these side effects tend to degrade the ability to do what "must be done, regardless", and thus reap the maximum rewards from the Dark Side, a portable set of principles is an absolute necessity for all successful minions to develop and maintain.
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On the post: Report: 'Nearly Every' FBI Forensics Expert Gave Flawed Testimony In 'Almost All Trials' Over A 20-Year Period
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
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On the post: DEA Also Spending Millions To Purchase Exploits And Spyware
Re:
Perhaps the S. E. Army with an army of foreign fascist billionaire backers, total immunity from world law enforcement consequences, and the largest arsenal of electronic hacking hard&software on earth, might be a better measure.
I like to think of the CIAF BINSADEA as the Electronic MAFIA on Steroids.
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On the post: UK Judges Take Their Robes And Go Home After Julian Assange Added As Speaker At Legal Conference
Entropy - The Law of Corruption
Wanna bet a quick peek into the past of these judges would reveal that they did NOT willingly withdraw from other far more serious situations, during their careers, and that this was nothing more than them sending the US a simple message - "We're still on your side USA" - but which looks a lot more like "We're still on your payroll, USA."
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On the post: New Appointees To Congressional Oversight Committees Have Deep Ties To Military/Industrial Contractors And The CIA
Re: with respect to degree of tyranny and state controlled culture
If you ever wondered how the German Corporate Party could have risen from German politics to rule the country and try and rule the world, the situation in America is an excellent petri dish example of just how much the public can be fooled and kept in a state of blissful ignorance, by a corporate controlled government bent on profit and social engineering.
And the Pretend National Socialist Party; the German Fascists, had nothing like the technology and capital now available to the American Billionaires Club, so the chances of America pulling its ashes out of the fire before insolvency, is remote.
I would estimate not one in a ten thousand Americans can read the writing on the wall - or rather, wants to read the writing on the wall - and probably less than 1% of those willing to read that writing, actually comprehend what is taking place, or how their American Dream has been legally re-assigned for the Rich - and in many cases Non-Americans - only.
Its a lesson that humans seem to never learn, and likely the most important lesson that civilization offers.
Even here on TechDirt, I can see this unwillingness to accept the reality that stares America in the face.
Only weeks ago, the head of the NSA admitted to being allowed to rewrite the Constitution due to 9/11, yet everyone keeps stating how nearly every action by police, and by all government agents, that enters the discussion arena here is contrary to the Constitution.
It appears that absolutely no-one is willing to believe that the US constitution has been rewritten and that what it once stood for has been altered completely - even after the deed has been admitted to, or perhaps I should say, bragged about.
Fascism is always a winning business model, but only for the players and the whole scheme depends entirely on the unwillingness of the victims to admit that their leaders are leading them into the ovens.
The public, especially one that reveres its own cultural mythology, such as Americans do, is like the frog in the pot of ever hotter water, who never moves and eventually dies without a clue that it was in danger.
I can't see the American Public faring any better than every other nation that has collapsed due to the misinformation, cronyism and economic liquidation of fascism.
However, the members of the American Billionaires Club, very likely stand to pull of the greatest heist and win the biggest haul in the history of the human race.
As always, I hope I am wrong.
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On the post: Whistleblowers Urge UN To Strengthen Protection For Those Revealing Abuses
Welcome to hell, snowflake.
Protect those who squeal on the crooks-in-office!!
Good grief, that's like having an American Cop wear a tamper-proof camera while on duty.
Aint gonna happen so long as the crooks are running the show.
After all, protecting whistle blowers is the same as denying a criminal his "5th" right to "not incriminate himself".
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On the post: Presidential Hopeful Carly Fiorina Displays Astounding Ignorance In Slamming Net Neutrality
Fudd's first law - what goes in, must come out....
They have all the moron candidates lined up - the ones that nobody in their right mind would vote for, like the Corporate Bimbo-4-hire Hillary - leaving the ticket open for the only "Sane Choice", which is just someone nobody knows much about and whose past can be whitewashed by the corporate media prior to insertion into the Offal Orifice....
They need a relatively unknown female candidate to replace the exiting relatively unknown black puppet....
Could this be the new Corporate President of the United Stakeholders of Ameri Co......
Time will tell.
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On the post: Crowdsourcing The Human Telescope
Outstanding
What a purely wonderful idea.
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On the post: New Appointees To Congressional Oversight Committees Have Deep Ties To Military/Industrial Contractors And The CIA
Re:
Its just that nobody knows it because Americans still generally get their news from the TV and the TV is now a USG propaganda tool that never mentions protests that don't aid its agenda.
Welcome to Amerika.
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Big Wig Pow Wow
Guess who the "Indians" are. :)
On the post: Netflix Moving To Encrypted Streams, As Mozilla Moves To Deprecate Unencrypted Web Pages As Insecure
Moby's Dictum
If the CIAFBINSA does NOT raise the roof with their tantrums decrying HTTPS to be the End of the World and the inevitable cause of the Deaths of a Million Babies a Day, then we can be absolutely certain HTTPS has been fully compromised and is an open book to the USG and its minions.
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On the post: Another Reason To Deploy Encryption Widely: Spiking China's 'Great Cannon' Attack
And now for something completely different...
On the one hand, we have the Spy Agencies and Corporations of America doing their criminal best to destroy encryption and weaken security world wide, just so they can read everyone's communications and use the information for blackmail, crowd control and advertising.
The American public, utterly deprived of a voice in this matter - and most other matters as well - can do nothing to stop the runaway USG and the MAFIA run American Fascist Billionaire Club from doing whatever they damn well please, because the new secret interpretations of the old laws and the constitution, as well as the newly established corporate exploitation and public surveillance laws of the land of the free, allow both the USG and the Mob to do as they please, legally.
And then along comes China - the most backwards-leading country on earth, desperately trying to destroy the influence of western culture, which they believe is making profit difficult for their own billionaires - oops - I meant that they believe is turning their own peasants into freedom fighters.... er... I mean that they think is ruining the moral fiber of the Honorable Chinese People.... and the Chinese Government is doing everything it can to utilize US technology and the USG built backdoor insecurity system to prove to the US public that Obama's threat of Cyber Terrorists attacking US systems is real, but really just showing the US public how insecure their communications has become under the control of Corporate America and the USG's Spy apparatus.
Its like a poorly written soap opera, using B-grade actors, in which the writers never bothered to even consider adding a good guy hero to save the day and with the Mob inserting a three minute commercial every three minutes, selling shit as new and improved shinola.
Yep. Civilization. Adulthood. Honor. Honesty. Morality. Truth. You've really got to love those popular human myths we keep bragging about having. Too bad they're not really available any more - except as ideals - in the Land of the Unfree.
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On the post: Anonymous Targeting CloudFlare Seems To Go Against Anonymous' History
One good Turncoat deserves another...
After all, it has been the standard operating procedure of the Feds to infiltrate every organization that threatens their bottom line, their national dominance, or competes with their organized crime friends' contraband businesses.
Look what they did to NORML. Half a century of collecting money for pot legalization and they failed to do anything but make the criminal punishment for pot bigger and bigger and the laws harsher and harsher.
And all this recent scuttle-butt about decriminalization is due far more to states being nearly broke and seeing pot as a sure-fire way back to solvency, than it does with anything NORML managed to do in all those decades with all that citizen-donated wealth.
NORML had to be fully under Federal dominance and control, like just about any organization that runs contrary to the Fed's agenda.
Why would they NOT infiltrate Anonymous?
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