Posted on 02/11/2016 8:46:27 AM PST by Swordmaker
Tech bkmk.
Given the politics we have in place, where political affiliation justifies any action, including sending extremely classified through unsecured private servers, servers that are sitting in a closet in a private residence; servers that could be physically stolen, connected to the internet at another location - and the diplomat in question would never know they were missing - that is not a weak link - that is a dysfuncional, traitorous link.
Given that the Justice system, that was designed to be deaf and blind; to dispense justice EQUALLY to everyone, has been co-opted by politics, and will refuse to consider trying anyone with the proper political party affiliation credentials, to even consider a security backdoor on anything is simply foolhardy.
Forget the privacy invasion that the Gov't is eager, and already has history of abusing. Forget the Constitutional laws, that the NSA, CIA, FBI and even local police have broken to the point that the laws are meaningless, we have politicians who are not only corrupt, they are just plain stupid. By stupid, I mean short-sighted, lacking in both moral fiber and intellectual capacity, as well as incapable of critical thinking. They have sacrified intellectual pursuits for the accumulation of power.
Consider, currently the BlackBerry is used by the US Gov't for dissemination of email, texts, meetings and communications. Blackberry believes in backdoors and has them in their phones as we speak. So, it's safe to assume that the "bad guys" are already listening in on the "secure" goverment system.
Then OPM sits in befuddled amazement when all the "secure" data on Federal Employees is released by hackers. I wish I could fix stupid- I would be a very wealthy man.
Thread over. This is the most accurate summation. Read no further.
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
....and would ONLY ever use your data in ways that promote freedom and respect our Constitutional limits.....oh, wait....
Having just finished reading “The God’s Eye View” by Barry Eisler I have to say “NO!” to leaving wide open gates so our ever so benevolent bureaucrats can look around whenever they want. Was a good book, fiction maybe. Made me wonder how far they would go.
The God’s Eye View
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_2452760_166699170_pe_ecg/?ASIN=B00XT47SOK
Kind of like gun control: expecting criminals couldn't get guns/encryption illegally and that they would respect gun control / encryption laws while breaking so many others. Anyone can get encryption products. Heck, any sophomore computer science student can research encryption algorithms and create their own.
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