Nicholas Geovanis writes:
> You are safe (now) so others' freedoms need not be respected. Your
> first jump down the slippery slope :-) Jefferson the slave-master
> would have said that you have taken one hand off the wolf's ears.
> Good luck :-) don't let go the other ear or you become the slave this
> time......
You clearly didn't read the rest of what I wrote.
Incorrect. I read it all closely. Hence my response.
Attempting to use
technical measures to prevent NSA from analyzing the packets I send off
to Web sites should they choose to do so is hopeless.
I made no such claim for any technical solution. Despite 4 decades as a technologist, I have never
made such a claim here or elsewhere.
The correct
approach to that problem is through the political process (limit their
budget). However, they do not pose an immediate threat of injury.
They do not pose an immediate threat of injury....to you.
Others are not so fortunate. So you missed Thomas Jefferson's point.
Criminals do. Concentrate technical efforts on the latter threat, where
they have some hope of working. Concentrate political efforts on the
former.
Our elected officials are constantly indicted as criminals. So are our law-enforcement
officers. Therefore the set of criminals and the set of "political processes" intersect and
their intersection is non-null. So concentrating on one threat means, in reality, concentrating
on both. Welcome to the real Real World :-)
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA