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If you are already a criminal, you aren't worried about the lack of a permit that much. Especially when you are a cybercriminal separated from your server by mu
by orthoxerox 7y ago
If you are already a criminal, you aren't worried about the lack of a permit that much. Especially when you are a cybercriminal separated from your server by multiple cryptocurrency tumblers.
Forward intelligence teams already record the faces of people taking part in peaceful and legal protests. You can bet your ass they cross-ref the feed with their Linkedin and Facebook data dumps. The same tech is now becoming available to everyone.
The USA can prevent its people from putting an M2 on their truck. Mexico can't (in some states). Syria can't (almost anywhere). The internet is closer to Mexico than the US.
- rmdashrfstar 7y agoThis is something so many people do not seem to understand: if you ban something, you only prevent law abiding citizens from using it, it won't stop the law breakers who were going to use it regardless of what the law says. There are people who DDOS video game servers in the US as to not lose the game, even though it's a felony.
- jakobegger 7y ago> you only prevent law abiding citizens from using it Most people are law abiding citizens most of the time, so laws are not pointless. And laws typically give us a way to come after those who violate the law. Sure, laws won't fix a problem once and for all, but if they can reduce the problem by 90% they are a big win.
- sametmax 7y agoNo. In france we rarely see criminals with guns. It happens. But it's not a common event.
- brokenmachine 7y agoSame in Australia.