jraymond’s Comments

• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 10:29am

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  on President Of CBS News Knew 'Reporter' John Miller Would Go Back To NYPD Before His 60 Min Propaganda Piece Aired
  Absolutely right, and if you didn't realize that it has already happened and that even some minor crimes are labelled as "terrorism" to give the police unlimited powers, prophetic.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 10:26am

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  on President Of CBS News Knew 'Reporter' John Miller Would Go Back To NYPD Before His 60 Min Propaganda Piece Aired
  Yes, too little, too late, and therefore worthless, bought at exhorbitant prices while neglecting the real needs of the less paranoid and realistic among us. Are you actually proud of that?
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 9:55am

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  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  Anyone can be impeached, including members of congress. The hard part is showing that he is guilty and needs a possible sentence. Impeaching is easy.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 9:47am

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  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  PDF? Excel? Are you kidding me? I think I'm getting dizzy. And the DMV, too? And do you think that retrieving that data requires a search or something and that is why you mention the time?
  
  There is a thing called a "database". It is ofetn huge. Like the Windows registry. Access is immediate and direct to each piece of data - no search, no following some path to get to it, no change in access time regardless of size. Databases have been around quite a long time.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 9:03am

  Re: what IS NOT SAID.

  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  Only a few people should have access to the file? What use would the file have if no one could use it for sales, the reason it exists in the first place? EVERYONE needs access to the file by some method. When you lock people out too tightly, you also lock yourself in.
  
  And as far as wired/wireless, it makes no difference whatever. It's surprising that you actually think that it would. But then your suggested methods of supposedly hiding files are all well-known, sophomoric, and as easy to get around as turnstyles to jump over. You really need better security than something a 4th-grader could come up with.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 8:54am

  Re: Re: Re: Not really

  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  This is one definition from one section of one law. "Conspiracy" does not have a monolithic definition. And as far as the overt act goes, simply buying a notebook at a dollar store to keep track of the plan is and act toward effecting the object of the conspiracy, so neither adds nor subtracts substantially from the original view.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 8:36am

  Re: Conspiracy

  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  Agreed. It is an effort to have the tools to actually prevent the breeches before they happen instead of just trying to clean up the mess afterward. "Conspiracy" is something always difficult to prove and involves a lot more than just "talking about" the security in question.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 8:31am

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  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  Who didn't vote for the Patriot Act? If you remember the time well, you would most likely have accused him of treason if he had not voted for it at the time. Everyone was gung-ho, and even then I had the feeling that it was too much, too fast.
• Jan 10th, 2014 @ 8:25am

  Conspiracy means.....

  on Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime
  Though I am totally against anything that would tend to restrict our freedoms in any way more than they have already been post-9/11, I have to question the interpretation of this law. Leahy has always been a strong advocate of personal rights and his insidious planning as limned here is something that would be completely out of character, if it were true. But the word "conspiracy" makes it all quite different from the knee-jerk interpretation. Talking about or discussing something is not conspiracy. Even discussing ways of circumventing security without the intention of actually doing it is not conspiracy, either. Conspiracy has always been a difficult thing to prove in court, as it should be, and I have no doubt, will continue to be.