How many would stop using these services and technologies if they knew the Government had a backdoor they could open at will without warrant?
I don't know about you, but having a Government back door doesn't make me feel any safer.
On the contrary. Not that I would be walking around worrying about it personally, but these are larger philosophical issues that transcend party politics, and I suspect even religion, as witnessed by the views of these forum members. It is akin to the government having a master key for everybody's house. Clearly agents wouldn't be running around rifling through everybody's personal stuff in every house all the time, but the idea that our own government should have free access to our private information is preposterous. It entirely changes the definition of government as our elected representatives.
I think he's referring to our policy of indiscriminate bombing and use of drones to ensure continued conflict and an endless supply of angry terrorists to keep our war machine profitable. Something like that anyway.
You are concerned about them protecting us as a target. The real point is to not do things that make us a target to begin with. The once of prevention is wholly misplaced.
They need the good sheeple to be afraid, to not understand that it is OUR actions, year after year, decade after decade, that not only created this "terrorist" problem but makes it worse every day. But it's profitable. Very profitable. So don't expect the narrative to change, much less for anyone in government to act sensibly.
I don't look forward to it at all. All these crap candidates clogging up the media with their scumbag campaign BS for more than a year. There is not one candidate that I would vote for. This will be the worst election ever.
I believe all people are self-interested, therefore those who work in government are as self-serving as those who are not in government. The difference is that corruption and inefficiency is punished by competitive pressures in the market among companies, whereas in government that rot just grows and grows.
So then there will be a gimped "People's Republic of the United States, (In NSA We Trust)" version with a backdoor and another, fully secure version for the rest of the world.
Law Enforcement has stopped so many terrorist attacks by monitoring the communications of potential terrorists. But because this all happened behind the scenes so to speak you don't believe it. If there was a successful attack, you would blame them for failing to do their job even though it is people like you that make it more difficult than it should be.
Law enforcement officials are failing US citizens on their own. By being dishonest about their true intentions, failure is happening on an increasingly frequent basis.
Approximately 4-6 weeks ago, the records of millions of government employees and military personnel were stolen from US government servers. Congress asked questions, but one question and answer really stood out to me and went to the heart of how the US government will protect the privacy of its citizens.
The question went something like... Was the stolen data encrypted or unencrypted? The answer went something like... I cannot answer that question unless it is answered behind closed doors and off the record.
And the next guy should be fantastic, right? No seriously, who are you excited about seeing as President next year? I'm curious, since it's not like there's a viable candidate that will oppose this stuff, more than Obama anyway.
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What does that even mean?
I don't know about you, but having a Government back door doesn't make me feel any safer.
And you think it's going to get better? The surveillance state is here to stay.
On the contrary. Not that I would be walking around worrying about it personally, but these are larger philosophical issues that transcend party politics, and I suspect even religion, as witnessed by the views of these forum members. It is akin to the government having a master key for everybody's house. Clearly agents wouldn't be running around rifling through everybody's personal stuff in every house all the time, but the idea that our own government should have free access to our private information is preposterous. It entirely changes the definition of government as our elected representatives.
I think he's referring to our policy of indiscriminate bombing and use of drones to ensure continued conflict and an endless supply of angry terrorists to keep our war machine profitable. Something like that anyway.
They need the good sheeple to be afraid, to not understand that it is OUR actions, year after year, decade after decade, that not only created this "terrorist" problem but makes it worse every day. But it's profitable. Very profitable. So don't expect the narrative to change, much less for anyone in government to act sensibly.
why do you believe that will change anything? before the current president, the previous president held the record for constitutional violations.
which terrorists have snuck over? how do you know if they snuck?
We need to have another revolution and overthrow this Government. It is our right and obligation as a Nation and a Free People.
One more year! One more year!
I don't look forward to it at all. All these crap candidates clogging up the media with their scumbag campaign BS for more than a year. There is not one candidate that I would vote for. This will be the worst election ever.
I thought you were in the UK?
These people are enemies of the Constitution and the American people and should be fired immediately.
It is much worse than you think: They are stupid and resistant to learning!
I thought you were in the UK?
Nope. Actually I'm from Washington.
I believe all people are self-interested, therefore those who work in government are as self-serving as those who are not in government. The difference is that corruption and inefficiency is punished by competitive pressures in the market among companies, whereas in government that rot just grows and grows.
Why is that statement contrary to mine?
Phenomenally dumb idea.
Law Enforcement has stopped so many terrorist attacks by monitoring the communications of potential terrorists. But because this all happened behind the scenes so to speak you don't believe it. If there was a successful attack, you would blame them for failing to do their job even though it is people like you that make it more difficult than it should be.
Law enforcement officials are failing US citizens on their own. By being dishonest about their true intentions, failure is happening on an increasingly frequent basis.
Approximately 4-6 weeks ago, the records of millions of government employees and military personnel were stolen from US government servers. Congress asked questions, but one question and answer really stood out to me and went to the heart of how the US government will protect the privacy of its citizens.
The question went something like... Was the stolen data encrypted or unencrypted? The answer went something like... I cannot answer that question unless it is answered behind closed doors and off the record.
So does the 4th amendment not exist when it comes to the NSA?
"unreasonable searches and seizures"
That "unreasonable" is open to argument, so the 4th, much like all of them, was not written as an absolute.
One more year! One more year!
And the next guy should be fantastic, right? No seriously, who are you excited about seeing as President next year? I'm curious, since it's not like there's a viable candidate that will oppose this stuff, more than Obama anyway.