champagnois

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by champagnois 5y ago
I do not think it is worthwhile to engage in cults of personality. I do not obsess over him or anyone else (outside of my family). While the man is accomplished and respected, his ideas are just ideas that he puts out there with the hope th
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Three things: (1) One genius inventor like Newton is worth more than an infinite number of idiots. No exceptions. (2) If education becomes a meaningless credential where everyone gets a participation trophy -- then educational attainment it
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Regardless, if you've been truthful, then we are extended family in some way. Vive la France! Vive la liberté!
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I do not really disagree with you. McCarthyism was before my time and I admit to having no understanding of it. I meant to say we should be creative in dealing with the ways in which totalitarian systems infiltrate our society and weaponize
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For the record, I apologize for turning this chat from "law enforcement" to "winning versus the east" ... I acknowledge this is all off topic.
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Western governments have not yet fully acknowledged the fact that the strategy of seducing totalitarian regimes like Russia and China with peaceful economic progress has failed. The awakening on this is extremely slow. Our 1337 have been, o
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I admire your enthusiasm and conviction. I do not doubt that you and your pro-democracy patriotic brothers and sisters at what ever group are probably the right people for the job, currently. In the United States presently, I am concerned a
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We see new technologies emerge that make our day jobs easier as they get more and more automated. I understand the desire of people in gov agencies to have more access to backdoors than they currently have, but think for a moment the risks
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Weaponizing computer code to attack a domestic company's normal and legal operations is a bit black and white to me. As far as I am concerned, anyone has the right to disagree. The company disagreed on terms with some potential hires w
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You are assuming bad faith here. The project is marketed as unblockable, etc and yet we both conclude it is blockable from the start with existing network management tools that are deployed in places like Iran and China. I was asking a genu
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These sorts of things are still blockable through DNS and IP filters cutting off access to the root nodes and such I would guess. As such, what is the use case?
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The value of this board is an extension of the quality of comments and discussion. We need to hold each other and ourselves to a high standard. The community guidelines are an attempt at saying please be decent so as to foster a more desira
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A business parted ways with some staff who were refusing to work under the contract that was offered. The business is now looking for new staff. I'm strongly against the idea of using weaponized computer code to disrupt their hiring op
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The interventions in the time from 2003-2021 were interesting and seemed to have some effect on changing the cultures of the middle east. It is still too early to tell. American elected officials are who started the war, the intelligence ag
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Who do you think made TOR? or SE Linux? or uncovers plots to import fentanyl to our shores and lace it into simple products to harm our citizens? Or leverages the dark web and social media platforms to monitor and disrupt foreign networks?
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There is a higher power in the form of civillian elected government that manage the framework within which the IC members are allowed to operate. Information is partitioned away from the public so as to partition it away from the watchful e
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Consider me just a well-traveled, well-informed, well-meaning individual of reasonable intelligence who cares about my family and civilization. You should be worrying about the foreign agents and the incredibly sophisticated plans they are
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The intelligence agencies exist to advance some view of what our civilization should be. If you are not an anarchist or some other form of misguided extremist, then you probably agree with the goal or intentions of the state's IC appar