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by alan_cx 13y ago
Philosophical, religious or political motivations can be reason enough to many.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Could the down voters of this post please explain why they down voted it? I ask because it seems quite reasonable and mild to me. What am I and the author of this post missing? Is there some massive killer point that has been missed, or som
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Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking(theguardian.com)
13 points by alan_cx 13y ago|1 comments
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Of course not. But you do know why this is a terrible point, right? This is exactly why we have courts; to deliver justice over vengeance, having proven guilt. Victims and offenders are extremes. Victims want maximum sentencing for vengeanc
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I may be wrong, but I don't see how anything is worth doing while the security services can quickly and easily compromise ISPs, and while we believe they can also crack encryption, or force us to reveal keys we may not have. All that i
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You are playing the same slimy word game politicians play to evade responsibility. As long as one can find a form of words, then all is fine and dandy. Even if that means redefining words to mean something new. I despise this game of words.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
If you are genuinely asking that question I suspect you already have the answer.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Which idea? HM seems to be a place sympathetic to the types of people who need TOR, and as far as I know, its US, LotF, based. So, yes, to me, it seems a contradiction. Not sure how it could one could argue different. If there is reason for
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Could you never resolve a HOA issue in a court, independently?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Although I suspect you didn't actually read what I posted fully..... Yes we do know they do blackmail. Its one of the things we know very well. It is what happened through out the cold war. Blackmail is a tried and tested method, as ol
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Fair enough. Your choice. Cant say I have ever found it hard or time consuming to let email automatically archive. It just does it.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Very good point. Carrot and stick. Even more reason to try to secure more openness.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Its always easier to not upset the apple cart. And as another poster rightly said, this could easily be a two way process. A given politician likely doesn't need a NSA crusade for votes, if (s)he has already won a seat, jobs already do
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Never delete email. Never. Archive, of course, but never delete. I have been in, and involved in, too many cases where old emails have been crucial evidence in both minor and major ways, personally and professionally. House keep, tidy, arch
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"Legal" does not equal "ethical" or "moral", in any country.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I'll say it again: we don't know if the security services blackmail politicians, and other influential or powerful people. When I say black mail, simply knowing that one is routinely snooped on makes people more compliant. The imp
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by alan_cx 13y ago
To be uncharacteristically charitable to the US government, Im not sure any government has credible computer/internet policies. Certainly not here in the UK at least. Partly, I think this is because of the general ignorance of the popu
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by alan_cx 13y ago
The whole business of banning from sites in general bothers me. More so with huge sites like FB and Twitter. These sites like to promote themselves as communities, and to be banned from a community with no explanation, due process or right
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hell banning for using Tor seems like a terrible contradiction to me. Especially for HN, in the land of the free.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I too wonder about the comedy sentencing in the US, which clearly is not working it terms of prevention at all. The only think I can come up with is its some sort of replacement for the olde gunslinger vengeance of the wild west era which h
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah, because statistically the person most likely to abuse children is, their father...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Indeed. This is the obvious issue every seems to be skirting over. Even the mass media seems not as out rages as it easily could be. Problem is we can never know to what extent this may or may not happen. What is needed is a high ranking po
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by alan_cx 13y ago
In many ways, hard evidence is the last thing a whistle blower wants. Its the evidence that scares the authorities. While its just "claims", you go free. You can be mocked and dismissed as a crank. If you have evidence, well, Snow
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Interesting that lower down the comment is referred to as a joke. However, things said that are clearly jokes, can result in arrest and prosecution, then jail. Weird.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah. In the UK we call it a "pub".
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Free speech in the UK is under massive threat. But no one really cares. Much like the US reaction to the NSA thing. People think it wont have and effect on them, so they just ignore it. People who do care about free speech, and privacy, are
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Jimmy Wales: David Cameron's porn filter idea is ridiculous and will fail(theguardian.com)
2 points by alan_cx 13y ago|0 comments
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Interesting. So you just forget about your rights, and accept abuse of them. You also think querying a situation is "combative"? Why use the word "lecturing"? Why not telling, or informing? Sound all a bit "do as yo
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by alan_cx 13y ago
100 times a week? Maybe 1 is an actual hit? Blimey. Presumably this little team don't run around all of the US. So, a state level team doing 100 per week? 50 states, right? So, that's a potential 5,000 searches, per week. 52 weeks
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Resisting a law is non-violent, but often gets a violent response from authorities, with guns. Most existing approved methods to change law simply dont work for most normal people. Its not as black and white as you think. If a minority is o

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