Crack smoking and prostitutes aren’t really all that offputting to most leftists now is it?
With leftists:
The lower, the better.
This story is hysterical.Apparently it's confirmed that these emails originated from a Hunter Biden laptop that was dropped off at a computer store for repair. The owner of the store allegedly was some conspiracy nut that made a copy of the HDD's content's and took it Rudi Giuliani's lawyers.
Opsec, LOL! Whoops: Too bad that Daddy Biden has a
long track record of hating
encryption.
—Whoops worse!
Trump is the candidate whose “Justice” Department and otherwise administration is eager to ban uncompromised strong crypto right now...The nineties called and wants their encryption wars back
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/international-statement-end-end-encryption-and-public-safetyIn light of these threats, there is increasing consensus across governments and international institutions that action must be taken: while encryption is vital and privacy and cyber security must be protected, that should not come at the expense of wholly precluding law enforcement, and the tech industry itself, from being able to act against the most serious illegal content and activity online.
ruined my third Sunday nap
Embed the safety of the public in system designs, thereby enabling companies to act against illegal content and activity effectively with no reduction to safety, and facilitating the investigation and prosecution of offences and safeguarding the vulnerable;
Enable law enforcement access to content in a readable and usable format where an authorisation is lawfully issued, is necessary and proportionate, and is subject to strong safeguards and oversight; and
Engage in consultation with governments and other stakeholders to facilitate legal access in a way that is substantive and genuinely influences design decisions.
...and
Biden is the candidate whose attack on strong crypto motivated the creation of PGP almost 30 years ago:S.266 - Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991
102nd Congress (1991-1992)
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] (Introduced 01/24/1991)
[...]
Subtitle B--Electronic Communications
SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law.
And there was government policy, which was, of course, exactly the problem to which Zimmermann felt his encryption software was the solution. On January 24, 1991,
Senator Joseph Biden, a co-sponsor of antiterrorist legislation Senate Bill 266, inserted some new language into the bill:
It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plaintext contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriate authorized by law.
This language received a furious reaction from civil liberties groups and wound up not surviving, but Zimmermann decided to
take matters into his own hands.
By June of 1991, Zimmermann had completed a working version of his software. He named it
PGP for "Pretty Good Privacy," [...]
You gullible mammothrepts! As you do every four years, you are “choosing” between two candidates who are substantively similar on
every issue of real importance. But at least it keeps you entertained, and it gives you a feeling of superiority to live in a “free” country—unlike all those Communist countries with one-party rule and meaningless show “elections”.
This story is hysterical.
Nullius is very right in many ways in his last post here..
Democracy can only work well with an informed and intelligent population who have good/selfless intentions..
The USA is lacking all 3.. The voting public is 90% propaganda packed imbeciles that care about nothing but their own immediate gratification..
Modern mass-media propaganda is a weapons technology, like bombs and missiles, based on the same psychological principles as any other advertising. And it is an unavoidable reality of modern life.
Though there is involved
some matter of degree: I once saw some astute historian say that in Continental Europe, the propaganda must be subtle and sophisticated to fool the populace—in Britain, significantly less so—in the United States, the crudest, cheapest hogwash will suffice. I think that you have succinctly summed up why.
(I think that democracy is broken by design, but I’ll meet you halfway hereby...)Atleast the constitution is not supposed to be up for vote, but here we are talking about packing the SCOTUS with leftist activist judges to do exactly that..
Lefty court-packing started with FDR’s threat to the U.S. Supreme Court of that era that if they struck down his blatantly unconstitutional “New Deal” laws, he would have the number of justices increased, and stack the empty slots with his own men. So much for a “balance of power”.
How do you suppose that he got away with
instant tyranny, as much as he wanted? (For pedantic correctness: Off the top of my head, I don’t know if the Roosevelt gold ban was one of the issues
directly impacted by the court-stacking threat; but I do know that the Commerce Clause abuse that is nowadays institutionalized to Federalize everything did start with Roosevelt, for exactly that reason. And your Supreme Court should have, and otherwise would have promptly torn up everything from Socialist Insecurity, to quotas imposed on how much farmers could grow, etc., etc.)
I’m not sure why the SCOTUS from two decades earlier had permitted the Federal Reserve Act to stand
—a subject for further research... I do know that at the time, SCOTUS had at
least enough integrity that constitutional amendments were required to ram through the Income Tax, and the Prohibition of alcohol.