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This is the same story over and over again. Fear propaganda (the notorious "cyber attacks") used to increase the clutch of the surveillance state (or rather, s

• cnbeuiwx 15y ago
  Why change something that works for them. Its the Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm that has been used on populations for thousands for years. The government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others. Then the government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis. What saddens me is not that they are doing it, but that most people seem unable to understand why they would do it. Because in a democracy, the majority of people need to understand something for it to be changed by democratic means. Hence, no change is coming by that method. Ever. How do you control a democracy? By controlling the media, because the media controls the majority. Internet is a big threat to that. Hence its currently being attacked. Facebook is part of this attack, because it puts millions of peoples actions under the control and monitoring of a single corporation, who in turn shares all the information with the government. Fascism doesnt like diversity, it likes uniformity.
• btbuilder 15y ago
  I agree we don't need more legislation, and that perhaps the real draw for companies here is liability exclusion, but, I think it's going a little far to say that cyber attacks are "fear propaganda". They certainly do exist and occur every day. For every 4 or 5 serious breaches we hear about there's most likely 100 more we don't. They also do real economic damage. I personally don't put them in the same category as security theater and other fear mongering.