On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:29 PM John Hasler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 :-) -- > John Hasler > [email protected] > Elmwood, WI USA > >
