It's always worth seeing a counterpoint - seeing what truly evil entities (such as drug cartels) are doing with technology, to see why a discussion between the NSA and hackers might be a good thing. To that end, I recommend the following Ted talk:
What the NSA is doing is frightening. What the cartels and other criminals is doing is the stuff of nightmares. One doesn't necessairly justify the other, but it's good to think about.
It's interesting that you use that TED talk to support your view, when the speaker is advocating not leaving security up to the professionals and instead approaching the challenges as a group in a very open fashion (he even mentions openly publishing the DNA of world leaders).
OK, I thought about it. I concluded that the smart thing to do is to end the War on Some Drugs and stop the escalation between the immovable, inevitable rocks on one side and the forces with infinite Federal funding on the other side.
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It's always worth seeing a counterpoint - seeing what truly evil entities (such as drug cartels) are doing with technology, to see why a discussion between the NSA and hackers might be a good thing. To that end, I recommend the following Ted talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/marc_goodman_a_vision_of_crimes_in_...
What the NSA is doing is frightening. What the cartels and other criminals is doing is the stuff of nightmares. One doesn't necessairly justify the other, but it's good to think about.
It's interesting that you use that TED talk to support your view, when the speaker is advocating not leaving security up to the professionals and instead approaching the challenges as a group in a very open fashion (he even mentions openly publishing the DNA of world leaders).
OK, I thought about it. I concluded that the smart thing to do is to end the War on Some Drugs and stop the escalation between the immovable, inevitable rocks on one side and the forces with infinite Federal funding on the other side.