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No, I like a good debate. What disturbs me is the misuse of government power and those people who should know better that defend it.

http://xkcd.com/33/

Lenovo is just copying their betters at the NSA: Infect the machines of others and when caught, deny it. Sadly, this business model will probably work for them.

America is slowly turning into a mini-gulag with takeout and liquor.

It's also where the money is. Getting paid to do the wrong thing is also an old trait of humankind. Remember Google's original motto? Whatever happened to that?

Gotta love Mencken: "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights."

Most Americans probably couldn't name the three branches of government without looking it up first. They get exactly the government they deserve.

Most Americans are apathetic. Of those of us not apathetic, those opposed to the widespread espionage of the three letter agencies are in the minority. It's been heartbreaking watc…

I don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that US government does this with impunity or the fact that a sizable group of technically competent citizens defends it.

I know what this conversation is about. We've all been watching the .gov surveillance/espionage Beast rise for our entire lives.

I thought the topic of the thread was government espionage, not the private interests that are partnering with the government.

> This isn't data about you. It's espionage by a government against its citizens. It is about us.

But we can trust them with "cyberpolicy".

This is a good place for this, one of my favorite quotes from the century before last: "Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions, and jealous observation.…

Apropos, from your link: "The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic…

What a pantload. This order is about DHS "legally" having access to corporate data instead of the usual method of tapping network pipes while also protecting those corporations fro…