The problem for the govt is not access - they simply tap into the backbone and grab everything - the problem has been crunching it. With things like Hadoop, etc that's getting easier.
Basically we are no longer in a democracy; elections don't matter for us non- plutocrats - the policies will say the same toward us, only the marketing changes. On Mar 16, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > yeah I'm kinda concerned about secret legal interpretations of the Patriot > Act. The people should be able to know the laws, I mean come on, how basic > is that? > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > >> >> This sort of thing, by the way, including secret legal interpretations >> of the Patriot Act are what nauseates me about Obama. Unfortunately, >> everyone else running is going to do exactly the same or worse, so I'm >> left having to decide on economics and social policy. *sigh* >> >> Judah >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> >> wrote: >>> NSA are scary motherfuckers. There are some truly amazing numbers in >>> this article (like the DoD plan to handle yottabytes of data...that's >>> 10^24 bytes) and it strongly hints at but doesn't seem to come right >>> out and say that the NSA has cracked some of the most important >>> cyphers out there (AES perhaps?). >>> >>> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 >>> >>> Damn scary stuff. >>> >>> Judah >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348706 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
