Humor should not only be allowed in all situations, it should be mandatory. If you hate terrorism, then you should love humor, because humor is the diametrical opposite of terrorism. Terrorism is attempting to change policy through violence, so attempting to change policy through laughter is the antidote.
How do they find out which employees to recruit? How do they recruit them? There has to be significant spying going on in these companies before they would even begin to contact the few employees who could insert these backdoors.
Then, how do they actually recruit these coders? I'm sure it isn't all patriotism and appeals to better nature. They buy them, either with cash or inducements like promotions for relatives who may be in the government or military. And if that doesn't work, there is always coercion. How do they get the info they need to coerce these people? By spying on them and blackmailing them for naughty deeds or threatening bad treatment for their relatives. And if they don't have any weak points, why you buddy up to them and get them involved in something bad, so then you can blackmail them.
There's no doubt that this kind of subversion involves not only passive spying on Americans, but active operations inside our borders against Americans.
Or perhaps they only do it to foreign nationals with H1 visas? Hmm, what could you offer a foreign national or threaten them with to cooperate?
Yawn. When you leave a secure area, you are supposed to ensure the gate has completely closed before you go on. Same concept.
I don't see anything wrong with applying a common sense workaround until it gets fixed. I can only imagine the hell involved in trying to change the software in thousands of military PCs.
Graph fail: The first graph should not have any white space in it. The left axis is in percent, and there is an "Others" category. I'm sure it doesn't change the story, but hey, what is the math equivalent of a grammar nazi? That must be what I am today.
If the new economic divide is between the knows and the know-nots, this would be the equivalent of class warfare and wealth redistribution. But hey, after all the abuses maybe we need an Information New Deal. And maybe we need some Information Antitrust laws.
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Also, I find this very illuminating:
http://tomveatch.com/else/humor/paper/
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Then, how do they actually recruit these coders? I'm sure it isn't all patriotism and appeals to better nature. They buy them, either with cash or inducements like promotions for relatives who may be in the government or military. And if that doesn't work, there is always coercion. How do they get the info they need to coerce these people? By spying on them and blackmailing them for naughty deeds or threatening bad treatment for their relatives. And if they don't have any weak points, why you buddy up to them and get them involved in something bad, so then you can blackmail them.
There's no doubt that this kind of subversion involves not only passive spying on Americans, but active operations inside our borders against Americans.
Or perhaps they only do it to foreign nationals with H1 visas? Hmm, what could you offer a foreign national or threaten them with to cooperate?
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This. I've always assumed this is the easiest way. Just pay someone to leave in a bug.
Anyone think this could happen in voting machine software?
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I don't see anything wrong with applying a common sense workaround until it gets fixed. I can only imagine the hell involved in trying to change the software in thousands of military PCs.
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If Martin Luther King were alive today, you'd be spying on him just like J. Edgar Hoover did.
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