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I'm an outsider, living in a country that has a serious record in the "violating human rights for political purposes" department. I seriously do have a problem
by fit2rule 13y ago
I'm an outsider, living in a country that has a serious record in the "violating human rights for political purposes" department.
I seriously do have a problem with the US military having this capability. The fact that there is no way to detect this intrusion, and little that can be done to protect against it - completely eradicates all value that I might obtain by having such a router technology in my midst.
Do you - seriously - think that having a top-secret, answers-to-nobody government agency whose primary purpose is the subversion of technology is a good thing?
Because I'll tell you something: the existence of the NSA is degrading to all technology innovators, everywhere. The NSA is doing to computers, what Big Pharma has done to medicine - made it so untrustworthy a subject that it turns a lot of people off the very real benefits that can be obtained.
Yes, I do have a problem as an outsider with the NSA having this capability. I also would have a problem if the local government had this capability. I do not believe that a free people deserve to have their technologies subverted for the purposes of the few...