The indictment of the nominee. Surely, Hillary Clinton hopes for the happy conclusion to the maddening string of primaries and caucuses that have exhausted her. Surely, she hopes to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party this year. And surely, she hopes to be elected president. These hopes are realistic probabilities in her own ... MORE
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Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
More Defense Dollars Don't Guarantee A Better Military
by Daniel L. Davis. Everyone agrees that federal spending is out of control, yet there’s little appetite to go after bloated Pentagon budgets. Americans from the left, right, and center all too often give the military a pass because they grudgingly believe current levels of defense spending are necessary for national security. But is there such a thing as ... MORE
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combat,
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government,
military,
politics,
protection,
security,
spending,
waste,
weapons
New York Judge Rules The FBI Cannot Force Apple To Unlock The iPhone Used In A Brooklyn Drug Case
Contradictory ruling to that in San Bernardino. The U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case, a New York judge says. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein made the ruling on Monday. The decision follows a California magistrate judge's order requiring ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Apple's Involuntary Servitude
Liberty and safety are not in equipoise. There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.” -Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016). After the San Bernardino massacre on Dec. 2, 2015, the FBI lawfully acquired the cellphone of one of the killers and ... MORE
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Apple,
encryption,
FBI,
government,
liberty,
order,
privacy,
security,
slavery,
smart phones
The FBI's Big Farce To Get Inside Your Phone
by Joshua Kopstein. “The most important tech case in a decade.” Earlier this week, the U.S. government dropped a bombshell in its ongoing crusade against strong encryption: A court order demanding that Apple help the Federal Bureau of Investigation bypass the security features of an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, who, along with his ... MORE
The Apple-FBI Fight Isn’t About Privacy Vs. Security
by Brian Barrett. Do not be misled. Throughout the ongoing fight between Apple and the FBI over custom access to an iPhone used by one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, the government has framed the argument as a simple trade-off: You must surrender a little privacy if you want more security. The scales don't balance quite ... MORE
The Age Of Authoritarianism -- Government Of The Politicians, By The Military, For The Corporations
by John W. Whitehead. America is at a crossroads. History may show that from this point forward, we will have left behind any semblance of constitutional government and entered into a militaristic state where all citizens are suspects and security trumps freedom. Certainly, this is a time when government officials operate off their own inscrutable, ... MORE
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authority,
corruption,
freedom,
government,
lobbyist,
military,
politicians,
security,
tyranny
Anybody Believe The FBI Isn’t Out To Defeat Encryption?
by Scott Shackford. FBI Director James Comey starts his defense
of their effort to force Apple to help them break into the iPhone of
San Bernardino terrorist and killer Syed Farook with a sentence that is
that is extremely hard to take seriously: "The San Bernardino litigation
isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message." ... MORE
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Apple,
DOJ,
Donald Trump,
encryption,
FBI,
force,
government,
privacy,
security,
smart phones
Rand Paul Weighs In On The Apple-FBI Dispute
by Elias J. Atienza. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told
CN2 that Apple shouldn’t be compelled to hack the encrypted iPhone of
San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook. Apple has strongly opposed a court
ordered request by the FBI to open the phone, citing that it could
create a backdoor and weaken the security and privacy of users. “What’s extraordinary ... MORE
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Apple,
coercion,
encryption,
FBI,
force,
government,
privacy,
Rand Paul,
security,
smart phones
At Least 1,730 Clinton Emails Contain Classified Material
by Anita Kumar. The campaign is gaining steam. At least 1,730 emails that Hillary Clinton sent or received
contained classified material, according to the State Department’s
latest update from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails. The State Department released a new batch of 1,116 pages of Clinton’s emails
Friday evening in response ... MORE
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classified,
corruption,
deception,
e-mail,
Hillary Clinton,
intelligence,
scandal,
secrecy,
security
John McAfee: I'll Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For Free So That Apple Won't Need To Give Gov't Back Door Access
But gov't wants the keys to ALL phones. Using an obscure law, written in 1789 — the All Writs Act — the US
government has ordered Apple to place a back door into its iOS software
so the FBI can decrypt information on an iPhone used by one of the San
Bernardino shooters. It has finally come to this. After years of arguments by virtually ... MORE
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Apple,
encryption,
FBI,
government,
security,
self-interest,
smart phones,
technology,
terrorism
Jackie Mason Says That If Michael Bloomberg Is Serious About Gun Control, He Should Disarm His 12 Bodyguards
by Awr Hawkins. Comic Jackie Mason says that if Michael Bloomberg is serious about gun control, he should disarm the 12 bodyguards who hedge in his every move. Otherwise, Bloomberg is just a hypocrite benefiting from the safety of a wall of guns, while calling for Americans to forfeit the safety that guns could bring to them and their ... MORE
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gun control,
gun rights,
hypocrisy,
politicians,
protection,
security,
self-defense,
self-interest
Obama May Be Ensnared In The Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan F. Keller. Perhaps President Obama’s involvement is the reason that the FBI has not yet referred charges to the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case. It may be metastasizing so quickly and so dangerously that not only are agents and lawyers within the agency having trouble keeping up with new evidence of wrongdoing, but that ... MORE
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e-mail,
FBI,
government,
Hillary Clinton,
intelligence,
misconduct,
Obama,
secrecy,
security
Andrew Napolitano: Sources, Methods And Lives
What classified info did Hillary compromise? This has not been a good week for Hillary Clinton. She prevailed over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses by less than four tenths of one percent of all votes cast, after having led him in polls in Iowa at one time by 40 percentage points. In her statement to supporters, ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Isn't It Strange
More inconvenient truths. There is a letter titled "Isn't It Strange?" making the rounds in email boxes. It asks questions to which our fellow Americans should know the answers, save for those caught up in modernity. It starts off asking, "Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, ... MORE
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deception,
dishonesty,
government,
gun control,
individual liberty,
NRA,
propaganda,
security
How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online
by Andy Greenberg. One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping ... MORE
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computer,
consumer,
e-mail,
encryption,
privacy,
protection,
secrecy,
security,
self-interest
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