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Well, except for those pesky NSA and DARPA agencies, to name just two of many, that have access to technology you haven't even dreamed of yet. Congress might b
by themartorana 10y ago
Well, except for those pesky NSA and DARPA agencies, to name just two of many, that have access to technology you haven't even dreamed of yet.
Congress might be full of idiots or smart people trying to make you believe they're idiots, but don't for a moment think the federal government as a whole is technologically stunted.
- zitterbewegung 10y agoIt's much harder to write laws when the state of technology keeps changing day by day and also be technoliterate to the changes.
- bogomipz 10y agoCertainly not but consider the level of dysfunction and complete lack of interdepartment cooperation. We have the NSA actively hacking other nation-states and our own private sector and then we have an FBI that resets an icloud password preventing them from getting a backup of data they desperately needed.
- mirimir 10y agoThe NSA hacks anyone who seems interesting. But that, arguably, is their job. As they see it, anyway. The FBI isn't so high-tech, for sure. But they get help, eventually.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoYou're right, and I should have been clear that I meant the legislative branch in particular.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoI used to work with these agencies and cool stuff almost never see's the light of day. Even within the well funded agencies, really breakthrough stuff almost never makes it to the people in the building - let alone to the public. So it doesn't really matter what they are doing.