Posted on 01/14/2018 8:51:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Does anyone think it would be a good idea for the postal service to open all letters
They did during WW2
“They did during WW2”
Didn’t know that. I understand why, during WWII, but it’s just too easy to ‘rationalize’ government overreach - and consequent corruption and oppression.
Everything libs touch, they totally destroy....absolutely everything. That includes the esteemed FBI, CIA, etc. The libs put an unvetted muslim despot in as POTUS. There is no question he was, and is, sympathetic to the enemy, and an enemy of the People. The entire Congress was complicit in that act....both sides. He and his ilk then took it upon themselves to weaponize the IRS, FBI, CIA etc. into political weapons as we’ve all witnessed and are now witnessing to this very day.
Those agencies have lost all trust, respect & support of the People...and ain’t gettin’ back...at least not anytime real soon. They can bitch & moan all they want but the People now want to be protected from those whom they originally entrusted to protect us. These agencies have become rouge and essentially committed suicide. The best thing that could happen is to either completely dismantle these agencies, and create different ones that cannot be politically weaponized, or completely clean out the existing ones and put enough procedures in place to keep them from becoming political weapons ever again. Even then, the trust and respect will be along time coming. on the encryption issue, as one poster above stated: make withholding encrypted data sought by a legitimate warrant a crime. Don’t treat all of us as criminals and violate our rights to privacy by demanding a “backdoor” to all our personal information. The FBI has especially become a rouge agency and is in the middle of trying to overthrow a legitimate government right before our very eyes.....it’s treason and should be treated as such. Years back, we had one of their jack-azz clowns as a neighbor. He was a real piece of work....to put it mildly he was an arrogant POS that went out of his way to make sure everyone in the whole neighborhood knew who/what he was. Unfortunately, I had the privilege of having him living right next door to my house. He only spoke to me once. He said, “Great morning to be alive, huh? I wonder what the poor people are doing?” I immediately responded by pleading the 5th. He didn’t think it was funny.....neither did I as I was serious. I wouldn’t give em the time of day.
Phooey on the back doors..... The FBI and DOJ have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
Yep. They want to close Pandora’s box...too late. Consider the billions spent on security research and products to secure these devices, then the government REQUIRES a means of getting around it all. Nobody can argue that ONLY the government would be able to exploit such mechanisms.
It’ll never happen. If people can’t trust the security of these devices then the whole thing implodes. While security will never be 100%, that’s very different than deliberately compromising it.
My eyes are dry.
This assorted band of Secret Police were ordered to attack the current President (even before he declared as a candidate)...and aided and abetted the cover up of massive crimes committed by Hillary and her husband (while Bill Clinton held office, and, later, out of office as the ex-president).
How deep was the Deep State in its acts of sedition to take out candidate Trump, President Elect Trump and later President Trump.
Invest some time and go to this incredible op ed by Sundance:
Operation Condor – How NSA Director Mike Rogers Saved The U.S. From a Massive Constitutional Crisis…
Fantastic read....thanks.
The "bad guys" figured out a way to exploit the cached data to glean information. The only way to prevent this is to stop using pipelined cache with speculative executions. In practice, the measured slowdown ranges from 17 to 29 percent slower.
The inability to break the encryption in a timely fashion is by design. If you must encrypt to prevent spying on your data, increase the level of "fun" by encrypting lots of nonsense trivial an mixing it with a real items. The interlopers have no idea which items are relevant and which are nonsense. All will require lots of CPU cycles. Choose something really challenging that isn't subject to defeat with big data solutions e.g. "rainbow tables" that map a replacement string for every possible hash value.
Good riddance. Now if they would only adopt a truly phonetic alphabet we could do away with 90 percent of our reading problems and would make communicating with computers a breeze compared to now.
The 5th amendment isn’t valid cover for obstruction. Companies now have to provide electronic evidence, what’s the difference?
Thinks are getting past ridiculous now.
a policeman’s job is easy in a police state.
That was the best explanation so far.
I thank you.
Yeah, I saw that. Sundance does excellent work! Bumped the FR copy to frontpage: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3619902/posts
We must fight the tendency of our government to become a police state, In the 1990s Al Gore wanted to force communications equipment manufacturers to include a "clipper chip" device. You would think that idiocy was slapped down once and for all, but here we go again.
Grandma, what a big back door you have!
The better to keep you safe, my dear!
You're right - everyone should read this Sundance piece...
Last century, when I was a little kid and susceptible to occasional parental warnings such as "You can't to that or else . . " and "You could go to jail for having a police-band radio" the Post Office would routinely route packages going to or from certain addresses for "inspection," which meant physically opening a package or envelope to examine the contents. (There was a term for this, but I forget what it was called.)
In those puritanical days or yore, they were primarily on the lookout for anything of a sexual nature, e.g., pornography, sex manuals, birth-control devices or information and even forbidden literature ("Lady Chatterton's Lover" I think was one).
Commercial packages were marked with "May be opened for postal inspection" unless the sender wanted delivery in weeks rather than days.
These days, I suspect the USPS has more sophisticated means of identifying suspicious packages than prying them open.
And considering the sheer volume sent out daily, Amazon would get a pass.
Raising the bar on declaring stuff obscene, violent, anti-this-or-that has been a mixed blessing.
Sure, dirty books, magazines and videos go through the mail routinely and who knows how many young minds are corrupted by their content.
On the other hand, putting a priority on intercepting dangerous stuff that can kill people would seem a better use of limited resources in this age of perpetual warfare.
The fact that Mike Rogers said he agrees with the Crowdstrike/IC “assessment” about Russia “hacking” the DNC makes me wonder if he is a 100% good guy.
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