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Every country with an intelligence service is working as hard at spying on the Internet as the NSA. (Albeit with less funding.) I haven't heard a reasonable proposal to put that cat back into its bag, and without one Rand's statement sounds impractical and misguided, at best.
Latvia deploy surveillance potato! You now scared!
The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
Your comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation, expand my knowledge, or even explain why anyone should value your opinion...
I don't mean to be rude, but it was a rather harsh comment, without much (if any) addition to the conversation.
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take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
> There are many project online that do that for you. Can you give an example?
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take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
> There are many project online that do that for you. Can you give an example?
The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
I honestly think that between POTUS Rand Paul and NSA mass surveillance programs, the latter is the leser of two evils. It would be very nice to see other candidates making similar pledges though.
The man is such a disaster in so many other ways, that getting one thing right is more of a half-cup of punch in a turd-bowl.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file There are many projects online that do that for you. All you need to do( just once ) is to download the file and add custom domains if you have some, but this is usually not required since everything that doesn't break the "web experience" is blocked by default.
> There are many project online that do that for you. Can you give an example?
I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true? I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
Corporations are not as worrisome as government because their power to act on that data is less. No company in america is going to bust down my door with rifles or throw me in prison because I think things they don't like. The worst they can do (assuming the government doesn't totally break down) is refuse to do business with me. But the government can do a lot worse and have a history of doing a lot worse.
A corporation won't bust down your door when they can just have LE do it on their behalf. The iPhone 4 leak comes to mind... http://www.fastcompany.com/1628188/police-raid-gizmodo-edito...
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I honestly think that between POTUS Rand Paul and NSA mass surveillance programs, the latter is the leser of two evils. It would be very nice to see other candidates making similar pledges though.
No explanation in this comment either
For example, he doesn't support FED in controlling money supply. But FED was instrumental in making USD the most stable currency in the last 100 years.
He doesn't like energy regulations and believes free market should dictate the energy prices. Too bad when California deregulated their energy market, the prices went up 10x in some cases due to market manipulations by Enron and similar.
And then there is his religious agenda like anti-abortion, anti same-sex marriages, anti mandatory vaccination etc...
Just because he supports one or two policies we like, doesn't make him good candidate overall. Even a broken clock is right two times a day.