FBI wants backdoor to all software

[TheFootMan]

How to get a backdoor to the FBI ?

1. Find out were some female agents work.
2. Court them and get at least 1 to become your gf, or the lover for a night.
3. ? Profit ?


 

Fuck the backdoor... I would just enjoy the back orifice

And that is not the backdoor? 

[bitzox]

If I remember at last election Congress had about a 25% approval rating. All but a few seats remained the same after the election.

If everyone had voted for their individual member how they felt about Congress, every seat would have changed. They'd pick up pretty quickly that they need to pull their head in. But people didn't: they thought everyone else should make a change, it's not their (representative's) fault. When anyone grumbles as to how useless Congress is, I ask them if they voted for the incumbent in the last election.

People if they can assemble have the power to fire every politician and give someone else a chance. If they don't perform, fire them as well. Keep going until they're working for the people. Idealistic maybe, but this is where things should be, and I believe can be.

The problem is that people don't realize that they have a choice. It has been ingrained in our minds that voting for a third party is giving away your vote for the last several generations. That leaves you with a republican or a democrat. the two parties have done a great job of dividing themselves on a whole host of inconsequential issues while having the exact same views towards the largest most pressing issues of the day. Doesn't matter which party you pick the results will be exactly the same until a viable third party emerges...or revolution. Its pretty much as simple as that.

[porticol]

The problem is that people don't realize that they have a choice. It has been ingrained in our minds that voting for a third party is giving away your vote for the last several generations. That leaves you with a republican or a democrat. the two parties have done a great job of dividing themselves on a whole host of inconsequential issues while having the exact same views towards the largest most pressing issues of the day. Doesn't matter which party you pick the results will be exactly the same until a viable third party emerges...or revolution. Its pretty much as simple as that.

I don't think it needs to be that drastic. If people make noise and have a solid message, politicians will realise this will affect their career. It happened with SOPA. It happens with gun control.

[Singlebyte]

Does this really belong in the bitcoin thread when it has zero to do with bitcoins?  Just saying....

[Mike Christ]

I don't think it needs to be that drastic. If people make noise and have a solid message, politicians will realise this will affect their career. It happened with SOPA. It happens with gun control.

Although you have a point, and that's how a democracy should work, I personally just don't want to control how other people live their lives, which is what a democracy is about.  Further, even if people were on their game and actually kicked people out of office when they didn't perform satisfactorily, we're still stuck with someone else for however long it is until they can be reelected, whether we like them or not.

If people were smart enough to do that, the answer would be a direct democracy, as opposed to a representational democracy, where everyone is a politician however many times out of the year it takes.  If we're okay with enforcing how other people live and how companies should do business, that's what we should be rooting for.  I have no idea if this will squash corruption, as you would still need a strong, central force of power to enact on these decisions, in either form of democracy.  But I'm personally rooting for freedom, so neither systems cut it.

[ReCat]

Sounds totally illegal to me, maybe someone in a position of authority should tell them no.  Next they will want a key to every locked physical door.

They don't need it, lol. They kick down the door. DUuh.

[bitzox]

I don't think it needs to be that drastic. If people make noise and have a solid message, politicians will realise this will affect their career. It happened with SOPA. It happens with gun control.

Really? Cuz last I checked no gun control laws have been passed since Sandy Hook and they have turned their focus from SOPA to CISPA...they let the public cry out, pretend to care, then wait 6 months when everyone has forgotten and return to business as usual.

rinse, wash, repeat.

Does this really belong in the bitcoin thread when it has zero to do with bitcoins?  Just saying....

In the strictest sense it doesn't but bitcoin was intended, at least partially, as a way to restrict government intervention (granted in currency rather than security) but they both relate to how the government treats the privacy of individuals. Its a tenuous relation at best but I will take it 

[Singlebyte]

In the strictest sense it doesn't but bitcoin was intended, at least partially, as a way to restrict government intervention (granted in currency rather than security) but they both relate to how the government treats the privacy of individuals. Its a tenuous relation at best but I will take it  

This is more of a US social (or political) topic and probably belongs in that area.  Bitcoin does not even relate to this. Not everyone is a US citizen.  That's why I raised the question.  

But here is my two cents....screw the FBI! 

[porticol]

Really? Cuz last I checked no gun control laws have been passed since Sandy Hook and they have turned their focus from SOPA to CISPA...they let the public cry out, pretend to care, then wait 6 months when everyone has forgotten and return to business as usual.

That's my point. How many people would vote someone out because they voted for increased gun control, compared with how many would vote them out because they didn't? Even though the majority were for it, the majority are also not single issue voters and will not let it affect their vote.

EDIT: but yes, saying 'gun control' rather than 'preventing gun control' was possibly misleading.

And also +1 on the moving this topic.

[evilpete]

there is still time for the US people to stop this nonsense and petition to their politicians, create organisations who will remind US government and its departments that they are going wrong way.

This is called "voting".

[DoomDumas]

This is really related to the tone of this thread.. I lovr it, it's true, funny and everyone should have listen to it at least once..

Culture in Decline | Episode #1 "What Democracy?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbLslkIR2k

(preaching to the choir)   

[Kluge]

It really isn't just that most of us are lazy (believe me we are) its that we don't have real alternatives.

Are you locked up in some institution? There is a libertarian party, even as a non-US person I know that. And in many countries there is a pirate party. If people don't vote those, they get what they deserve.

Of course the large parties are all the same, their "politicians" are actors and they are performing quite well.

In the US, third parties don't really push this as much as they should, but the US is not just a de facto Two Party system, it is encouraged through most states' laws ("to prevent confusion among voters"). It's extremely expensive and otherwise resource-intensive for third-party candidates to get on the ballot in most states. If the party doesn't pick up somewhere between 1-5% of votes in a state in the previous election (and it resets each cycle), they're not allowed to get on the ballot without tens or hundreds of thousands of signatures. Third party campaigns are mostly a battle to get on the ballot, and much (sometimes all) of the funds donated are going toward that instead of any type of marketing. While Two Party candidates are out campaigning, Third Party candidates hitchhiking to different states to collect signatures.

While there is a Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, Green Party, Socialist Party, and a handful of others -- they can receive millions a year in donations, but still not even appear on the ballot in a given state. The Libertarian Party in particular seems to like measuring their success by how many ballots they get on instead of how many votes they pick up, because that's the metric all the time and money's being spent on, while other third parties are lucky to get on the ballots of a small handful of states with relatively lax ballot laws.

Ballot laws are generally less intense for Congress, but the donor/volunteer pool is also much smaller for congressional seats, and third parties are largely seen as a joke in the US, so even if they got on the ballot, the same "oh, I can't vote for him because he'll never win" mentality will persist. People in the US rarely vote for who they think is the best candidate, but assume there are two viable candidates and that they must pick between those two to not waste their vote ("lesser of two evils" mentality).

[Svennisen]

1984 anyone?

[jackjack]

Wow...

[leopard2]

People in the US rarely vote for who they think is the best candidate, but assume there are two viable candidates and that they must pick between those two to not waste their vote ("lesser of two evils" mentality).

That is the problem, not the US election system. Look at Europe where the system is different; pirate parties are there but the gojim don't vote for them. They need to get it hard from behind, really really hard, before they wake up.

The retards deserve it but the problem is, everybody else is suffering too.

A fiat currency crash would be desirable as a wakeup call.

[bitzox]

A fiat currency crash would be desirable as a wakeup call.

This all damn day!

[Rampion]

A fiat currency crash would be desirable as a wakeup call.

This all damn day!

A bit of hyperinflation curtesy of our friends at the FED and their "quantitive easings"?

[QuestionAuthority]

Paranoid people are paranoid.

[VakkoBLS]

"auto-updates" = Backdoor

[Shawshank]

I feel this kind of surveillance is widespread. I recently changed my telecoms operator, and they provided me with a backdoored router. Even though I notified the company about the issue, they refused to change it.

Not only is the admin password not hashed, it is also accessible remotely by the telco company and whoever has access to the router.

Explanation in Spanish: http://www.securitybydefault.com/2012/08/nuevos-routers-asl-26555-de-movistar.html